GAFilking

[billroper]

daisy_knotwise, Katie, Julie, and I pulled into Atlanta at a bit after midnight local time. We'd spent the previous night at bedlamhouse and ladyat's place in Danville, arriving there later than intended because of a late departure, traffic, and weather.

But the weather today was beautiful for most of the trip (and cloudy at worst). The backseat DVD player died in the middle of Kentucky with a puff of escaping magic smoke. I told Gretchen, "To heck with it. We'll buy another one." Putting my shopping fu to work, I said that we needed to find a Sam's Club or a Best Buy or something and I'd buy anything reasonably priced that worked. "Pull off at Exit 22," I said.

And as we approached Exit 22, there was a Sam's Club on the right. I went in and bought another pair of DVD players like the ones we had (yes, we had a pair, but the spare was somewhere at home where we couldn't find it at launch time). This time, I bought the extended warranty. :)

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[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

I tell ya, I would've done the exact same thing. I don't know how I ever travelled anywhere with kids before the strap-on DVD players came to be.

Ours has one player, but two screens, so each row of my minivan has its own screen for the kids to watch. Does your player have multiscreen action, or is that why you bought two?

On pit stops, I throw the baby blankets over the screens to minimize bling attraction to getting into our vehicle.

Have fun at GA Filk. I'll miss everyone this year. Cut the rug for me.

[billroper]

You can either play a different DVD in each player or slave one to the other. They come as a set of two players. We just unstrap it and put it on the floor, which makes it pretty non-obvious.

I'm starting to worry that the new player is going to overheat and die, but that's what the extended warranty is for.

This time. :)