I had to snap a picture of this for posterity. On a sub-digital channel of a local affiliate, they run old old old-old shows which are generally considered to be out of syndication, or cost nearly nothing (but free advertising spots) to run. Some of these are interesting, and others are actually amusing – and the likes of which never duplicated, such as “The Rockford Files.”

Immediately after Crisis (AKA Kraft Suspense Theatre), I spotted this gem:

Yes, it’s an infomercial direct to us from TN.

This evening these enterprising individuals were selling 100 knifes for $100. Straight from their “Wharehouse”.

If you want an enormously oversized 6.2mpix image of it, it’s linked – please feel free to save it, as I did, for posterity, but do not hotlink the image. Thanks!

For the entire two of you who will ask “Why’s it so dark?”, I had the camera in “Stablizing mode”, which always forces the flash to be on; the automatic correction took out the rest of the TV, and the wall behind it!

Also, for Mother’s day, I thought I’d take ma out for lunch. It didn’t quite work out that way. I ended up doing some tree trimming with clippers AND hacksawing, bagging, dragging, cleaning up dead animal parts, and making no less than 200 gallons worth (why are garbage bags measured in gallons, anyhow?) of sagebrush and tumbleweeds to be re-greened at our local recycling dump.

Then, after I got home, I got to fix one leaky toilet (bad valve) by replacing the entire assembly. I ended up reusing that old flapper on a plastic/rubber guide to replace the one in the other toilet which has a rusted-out handle bar assembly. A quick hole through the plastic guide, a re-use of the clasp from the flap from the thos toilet, and a re-use of the overflow/bowl water guide from the replaced model slipped over the rusted-out end of the arm assembly, and they both work perfectly for a whole $16.32.