Tuesday, March 28, 2006

An interesting turn of events.

Our cable box went out Saturday. After talking to a half dozen reps, waiting through four resets, and two tech visits, we have a new cable box today. Funny thing happened, though. This last tech told us that instead of having an HD box and no DVR, we could get a DVR box and get HD free. Let's sum up: New box and more services, no charge? Oh okay, he convinced us. This afternoon I'm DVR'ing Green Acres just to see how it works.

So that's how easy it was for us to join the DVR club. I'll keep you posted on how it works out for us. I've already played with pause and instant replay (10-second button), and I do feel a godlike thrill. Besides, it's a remote with more buttons. When I was a young tyke, we would punch toggle switches and lights through cardboard boxes to recreate the walls of switches we saw on shows like Man from U.N.C.L.E. I like buttons.

In other news, you may wonder why I am recently dealing with Blockbuster when I hate them so. I discovered that in an apartment the size of a closet, you gain weight. The walk between the computer and the Chips Ahoy is much shorter. Here, for example, it's downstairs and gives one pause. So I'm walking more. I found that I can do a lap around Lake Christopher or walk to Blockbuster, about the same distance. One trip brings movies home. LWC and I are catching up on a lot of movies we missed earlier in the year.

7 comments:

TheGirard said...

That traffic corner is scary though.

Aussie-Askew said...

Man, I went through my Man From U.N.C.L.E phase also. Loved it, although it never carried the appeal of GET SMART.

There's an English show (on AMC I think) called something like "Heist" or "Con" or similar, that is a one-hour con-team show, and 'Napolean Solo' is the leader of the (much younger) team.

Substantially more dignified for Mr Vaughn than those law-firm ads.

Brad said...

It's called Hustle - to much posing and acting like they always know what is going on for me

Major Rakal said...

Wish I could see Man From U.N.C.L.E. again. I loved that show -- but Ilya Kuryakin was my favorite character, not Napoleon Solo.

I always thought it was cool that they got into UNCLE headquarters by pulling down the coat hook in the back room at the laundry.

Shocho said...

In my experience, UNCLE did not age well, looking pretty dopey these days. Get Smart, however, still fucking funny. You can't beat Buck Henry.

Kathy said...

Substantially more dignified for Mr Vaughn than those law-firm ads.

Hey Aussie, we should have shown you when you were here...in our town, it's Shatner who does the law firm ads. Very...dramatically.

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