Last Sunday was Aunt Mary’s birthday, so we went down to Canton to see her and to go out to eat. Aunt Mary decided she wanted to go to Hog Heaven – a barbecue place in Canton. It was biker-themed, but the food was very good. Mer got into one of her very rare steak moods (her mood was rare – she likes her steak medium well), but Aunt Mary and I got the barbecue sandwich. I had only previously had barbecue in southern (Florida) restaurants, so I was surprised when they brought the sandwich out and it was plain pork with the sauce on the side. It was very good, but I had expected a messy drenched sandwich. It was less sloppy to eat it with a little sauce at a time.

After lunch, we headed to Circuit City to help Aunt Mary buy a new 26″ LCD TV. We got a Panasonic (which Sonotmu recommended) on sale (less than $600 even with tax), and headed back to Aunt Mary’s house, where I moved her TVs around (she has one on each of three floors), and I hooked up her new TV. The screen was very bright, but I could not quite get the picture to come in as well as I thought it should. Maybe analog cable does not come in very well on 720p High-def TVs. It was still good, but I expected to be wowed.

We spent some more time chatting with Aunt Mary and opening some gifts, and then we headed home with the oldest of Aunt Mary’s TVs – a 26″ TV from 1995. That was quite an upgrade from our 20″ TV from 1990! It is nice to have a bigger TV, if only to fill the space in our entertainment center (although the bigger picture has been fun for watching Dr. Who on!). I don’t know if it was related, but my putting in Wii golf was off for most of the last week. I’ll blame the TV.