In the PINK!

This arrived today after months of searching ebay....Daughter is Delighted!

Although I am possibly the LAST person in the Universe to jump on this bandwagon...
I finally have Tivo.

Well, that's not quite the whole story.
I've had the Tivo for a WHILE now,
but no phone line to hook into for the setup.
Very long story, with lots of fingerpointing
(the phone company said the electrician screwed up, the electrician said the heating and air guys cut the wire, the heating and air guys said hey, it's the PHONE company's equipment, call them...
swing your partner do si do, promenade LEFT and around we GO....)
so because I stayed up until almost 2AM watching the very exciting CART race
(doesn't the younger brother look handsome in a SUIT? Great job in the booth, dude!)
of COURSE the phone company guy showed up at 7AM this morning.
Know what the problem was?
The very expensive phone I bought from said phone company
had a short in it.
sigh.
Drove all the way to the said phone company's store (an hour away)
where they said
OH. We can't help you with THAT.
It's a residential phone, right?
Call the business office.
I think NOT. I'm getting that twitch over my left eye that signals the beginning of a migraine.
I came home and plugged the Tivo into the phone jack and raced through the setup menu.
Voila.
Ready to Tivo all of the racing action for the month of May.
woo and hoo.
Start your engines baby, I'm ready to knit, Full Throttle.
I will try again with the phone company (service provider? We know not what this is supposed to mean given the current situation) tomorrow.
If you are so inclined,
a prayer to the patron saint of Communication
is requested.
Amen.

Comments

[melissa]

Good luck with the phone company.

You'll love your Tivo. We've had one for a long time, and don't know what we'd do without it. (Actually, we have more than one. I'm not telling how many)

[Deb]

No, no--you're not the last. We don't have Tivo either (no nearby phone line, but more importantly, it's not supported by our lovely (ahem) cable company). I do have a DVD recorder, though, with a hard-drive, so I can do similar things--does that count??

[sUsAn]

Welcome to the wonderful world of TiVo!!!! You will have such fun! It's amazing the gems that are on in the middle of the night. Is the Jiggley(sp?) Puff?

[Lolly]

I. Heart. TiVo. You will too :)

[Anmiryam]

We have no TiVo. And honestly, I don't think I could face working with our cable company and the phone company to get service installed -- those two are in a race to see which can provide worse customer service. I value my limited sanity.

[J Strizzy]

Um, no. Not the last. I don't have TiVo. And though I have a VCR, it doesn't work properly with my cable so I can't record anything except channel 3.

Enjoy all the racing!

[Ann]

Yes, I hear Jigglypuff singing in the background now... And heck, we don't even have the tee vee out here in East Nowhere :)

[Rachael]

Oh, TV will never be the same. The power to delete, just like that. No more commercials! And you can search for terms like "knitting" and "Indigo Girls" and capture all the shows that come up.... Fun, fun, fun!