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Goddamit, I love Tivo.

I was given one by my glorious parents, and I haven't got the controller for the cable box, so I can't program it to grab "Every episode of the Simpsons" or "Everything directed by Terry Gilliam" yet, but I can use the pause Live TV option, which has proved incredibly useful. Erin left for a show at 8:45, so I just hit pause, and Smallville stopped. I came back to the tv ten minutes later, rewinded for 30 seconds, and hit play, bingo, back where I had been. I'm in a bit of a state of shock at the ease at which I can suddenly get around the annoyance of people phoning during tv, and I can definitely see this becoming a "can't live without" feature in a very short space of time.

Having looked forward to the Tivo for aaages (I've wanted one since they first appeared), it was a slight letdown when I actually got one - nothing could have been as cool as the hype, but now I've actually played with it for a bit, I can see that it's going to be incredibly cool to have.

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When I moved recently, I was left without certain things. Like a freezer, or a microwave. And the fridge in the flat I moved into was broken, meaning that sometimes it would freeze everything in it. We're nearly sorted on the fridge front, but we're there for the freezer. I'd forgotten how handy it was - I was over at the supermarket earlier and happened to wander passed the cold meat section, where the cumberland sausages and pork and apple sausages were both half price to clear. So I bought everything they had, came home and put them in the freezer. Then went to tesco.com, checked their frozen goods for special offers and bought a small shipload of chicken. The flat is slowly coming together, I just need a tv cabinet (to store the VCR,DVD,Cable and Tivo boxes), a working portable phone (battery is gone on Erin's one), the fridge fixed and the buzzer repaired and I'll be happy. Of course, we'll then move in 5 months time, necessitating a complete restart. But there ya go.

Synchronicity

I'm reading the complete Dork Tower at the moment, and just hit this one, which makes for a nice coincidence.