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November 15, 2010
5.15: DVR
It's become difficult to remember a time before we had a DVR.
What I do remember is how shocked and awed we were that we had ever manage to live without one.
Suddenly it didn't matter when shows were on, and it didn't matter if two of the shows we wanted to see were on at the same time. We could watch three shows in the time it used to take to watch two, with the exception of Dancing with the Stars, which could be watched in easily half the time.
It's taken years for the dark side to show itself.
Instead of watching a few well-loved shows a week, plus catching a bunch of other take-it-or-leave it shows that we didn't have the luxury of getting deeply involved with, we now record 10-15 shows a week, all of which we feel obligated to watch. And that's after a few of our favorites got cancelled or lost in the writer's strike shuffle (or just started sucking.) Just to keep up, we're watching 2+ hours each evening of must-see tv.
All these shows are eating up my blogging time, my photo managing time and our *ahem* couple time.
There was a time I wondered how we ever managed to live without our DVR.
Now I'm not sure we can stand to live with one.
Posted by me at November 15, 2010 8:51 PM