We have run into a TV watching problem once again. There are
two shows that are recording at the same time and when that happens, you can
either watch one of the shows that are recording, watch a show that had been
previously recorded, go down and watch the other TV, watch television on one of
the computers or the iPad, listen to the radio, read a book or talk to each
other. It’s a no win situation!
Of course I choose to write the blog and wait until one of
the shows finishes recording so that Louise and I can watch the show together.
Everything is much more fun when you share it. Well, not chocolate or ice cream
of course and it is just weird if you share underwear. Mind you, I have always
wondered what those satin panties feel like.
It kind of makes you wonder how you got along before the
PVR, VHS and Beta. Well, it was pretty easy really. If there was a show that
you just couldn’t see one week, you could wait until the season ended and then
hope that you could catch the particular episode sometime in the summer when it
would be repeated. The problem was that the schedule was kind of hit or miss
because the networks also used the summer to test market pilots for the new
fall line up of shows. Sometimes, not often you understand, there was actually
something to do on the night that the show you had been waiting to see for
months was on. Your girlfriend just wouldn’t understand that you had to stay
home and watch TV.
You wouldn’t stay home of course. You would miss your
episode and probably never, ever, ever see it again. Life was filled with
disappointment back in the day. We had no way of knowing that in thirty or forty
years you could walk into Walmart, Bestbuy or Future Shop and buy DVD’s of the
old shows that you knew and loved. It is fantastic that all of those old shows
are available now.
You don’t even have to watch all of the show; you can search
on Youtube for a particularly funny part of the episode. Why, if you happen to
be tech savvy, you can go to a shadowy web site like Piratebay and download
whatever you want. That is just too much work for me, I use the library. You
just go on line, put a hold on the particular show you want to watch and within
a week or two they will give you a call to let you know that the hold is ready
for pick up.
This is the time of the year when we should appreciate all
of the good things that we have, and like George Bailey would say, It’s a
Wonderful Life!
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