R.I.P. Trona
Oh Trona, the years have hardened you.For Christmas of 1999, I bought Jeff a DVD player. Back then, DVD players were a little pricey. I was 23, working part time for a bank and I remembered having to save and save and save. I was so excited when I bought it and even more excited to give it to him for our first Christmas.
We nicknamed the DVD player Trona (the maker was Oritron) and we used her almost every day (with the exceptions of vacations) for at least 2-3 DVD's and even more when we would have our weekend movie marathons. Trona worked her heart out for us, even after I was told by someone, who shall remain nameless, and it wasn't Jeff, that the DVD player was a piece of crap and wouldn't even last a year, lasted for nine.
Around October she was getting tired and wouldn't play certain movies, especially ones with animated menus. I came to terms with Trona's fate, it was time to retire her. I thought about just moving the DVD player from the bedroom to the family room, but that would only solve half the problems.
For Christmas I got Jeff two DVD players. One for American DVD's and one for British (sometimes the DVD's that come from England won't play and I found out your DVD player needs to be programmed to play British DVD's, so I bought two). This weekend we finally moved the entertainment center out and made the switch. The new player works great!
We can't throw Trona away just yet, it doesn't feel right. she needs a proper send off. Maybe cremation in our fire bowl?
