Tivo Suggestions

I've replaced my Tivo finally after 11 months of owning this new one (sad, yes, I know). But now I'm setting up my new Season Passes and am looking for suggestions. So far I have: The Daily Show Scrubs ER Six Feet Under Reno 911! Lost Queer Eye for the Staight Guy Things I Hate About You Myth Busters

What other tidbits of popular culture am I missing? I've had complete Tivo amnesia! Oh and let me know if you're interested in my old DirecTivo that has Tivo (series 1) and a DirecTV receiver together. You would need DirecTV to make it go.

[Edit] I've found a loving home for my old DirecTivo receiver. and her hubby are revolutionizing their TV watching world. :)

Belated Turkey Recap

Good grief it's already Wednesday and I haven't said a thing about Thanksgiving weekend! Needless to say, it was fantastic. The Puddin' and I and his family had Thanksgiving brunch at the Jefferson hotel downtown. It was beautiful inside and there were lots of gilded things and oil paintings of dead presidents.

So since we ate so early, we could lounge about that evening and nap or putter. My family postponed Thanksgiving dinner until Friday evening and I was pretty pleased with that plan. We didn't have to eat two huge meals in one day and that gave us time for our Black Friday shopping. I didn't buy much, but made lots of lists for a future trip.

Highlights of the weekend were and coming to visit (hooray chatting all night!), my family all eating at the house with relatively little pain over the preparations, and tons of audio visual upgrades.

See, Saturday, I bought new speakers from the Bose store and the Puddin' and I proceeded to move all the furniture in the living room to place the speakers for optimum performance. This group effort proved to be far more pleasant and productive than the dishwasher. We allotted tasks out and supported each other in our frustrations. The Puddin' decided early on that he didn't think he would get that excited about expensive speakers given his hearing loss. But once we had it all set up and he could feel the ATAT walkers in his chest, he was very pleased.

I'm now listening to the Daily Show with digital sound and had recently finished playing Dance Dance Revolution with component video and digital output. My eyes and ears and dancing feet are overwhelmed.

I was very spoiled having five nights in a row with the Puddin' where we got tons done and still had plenty of relaxation time. By the time Sunday night rolled around and we were recapping the weekend to ourselves, it seemed like an epic novel.

I'm sure there's a model that would install itself somewhere.

The Puddin' and I have a dishwasher installed. It only took two days, a busted hose, eight adapters (7 of which we no longer need), five trips to the hardware store, a few snotty tissues and every towel in the house. Thankfully, we have developed some new ground rules for working on projects together if said project is something about which neither of us know a damn thing. I think we both assumed that our being reasonably smart people was plenty for the project. Like my old boss would say, "what do stupid people do?!"

But in the end, we got hot water to come out of a copper pipe, into a reinforced hose (the right hose eventually) and into the dishwasher. We got it levelled and mounted to the cabinet and the front plate installed. We got the cap popped out of the already installed garbage disposal so that the drain water had somewhere to go (something we forgot about for the first two hours of the project). We found that Home Depot sells something called a dishwasher/disposal adapter (who would have known?). And we found that the float attachment to the kill switch for the water intake valve was bent all to hell and that straightening it goes a long way to getting water into the dishwasher.

So next time we need to install something, we'll do a little more homework first and divide the labor a little more easily so we're wrestling around like two people trying to put on the same sweater. But all in all we did really well and we'll have a way to wash all 5932 dishes that get used on Thanksgiving day. So the sad little "I'm not hooked up right now. :(" post-it has been removed from the front and I'm already making lists of the next items we can work on ... eventually.