ze unsinkable
The unthinkable has happened.
I arrived home from work at midnight on Thursday to find sorrowful eyes in the kitchen. "I have bad news."
An accident? A flood? Illness in the family? -- "Our shows didn't tape." Oh.
Oh.
Thanks to our new digital cable, we have to set the VCR very differently from before: We have to leave the cable box on at the channel we're taping, and we have to set the VCR to channel 3, and then we have to program the VCR to tape channel 3 for the length of time our shows are on. This is very easy to forget, since our old system just involved setting the VCR to tape the channel we wanted for the time we wanted. I knew it was just a matter of time before the new system backfired on us ... and it did Thursday night. We missed our NBC shows, "The Office" and "30 Rock."
"No problem," I said. "We can download the episodes from iTunes for, like, two bucks."
Crisis averted.