So, our TiVo died this weekend. We have a theory about this, namely that Ryan and I had started talking about getting DirecTV/TiVo combo box, rendering our existing TiVO inconsolable. Let's face it, when you combine the compression of digital cable with the TiVo's compression, you get a pretty crappy picture. Also, we paid ComCast $58 last month for the privilege. Our existing TiVo heard about this, and naturally decided that ritual seppuku was the only acceptable course of action under such circumstances. However, it doesn't understand that it's not as though we were just going to sell it down the river. We had a good home picked out for it. We're trying to save it from itself by clearning the program data and the todo list. We read on some random web board that this may help.
The TiVo informs us that it will be an hour. An hour? To clear out a bunch of stale database entries? God, I hope that means it's doing something a little bit more meaningful. Like, say, rebuilding and relinking the OS from the inside out. I can dream, can't I?
The lack of TiVo seems to have thrown the entire household back into the neolithic age. Back when all we had were video games, blogs, and heaven forbid, books. It has inspired me to write a little in the blog, which counts for something, since Russ set this up for me a week ago and it's been sitting here dormant until now. I'm in the middle of the fourth of the Jack Whyte arthurians, which is good, though a little aimless right now. It sort of feels like he's got space to fill, between the Roman departure and the eventual ascendance of Arthur, but doesn't have a whole lot of ideas about how to fill the space. The last couple of pages of the previous random section provide the minimal transition into the next weird encounter, but there isn't a whole lot tying it together. Russ was kind enough to loan me volumes 2 and 3 to read over thanksgiving. I hope their closer to the deliberate pace and building story of the first novel, not the randomness of the fourth.
We actually bought a dish and a new TiVo on Sunday. Don't tell the old TiVo--if this doesn't work, we're going to pick up a bottle of Lagavulin 16 and take both to the TiVo doctor once he gets back from China.
Posted by jonpilat at November 17, 2003 12:25 AM