I had planned to catch up on a few things today, it being the weekend and all. This is what I did instead:
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Finally hooked up the TV I bought a week ago to the newly installed cable outlet in my sister's bedroom.
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Discovered said newly installed cable outlet was installed wrong.
Instead of finishing the outlet with a female receptacle that you plug your cable line into (with the other end plugging into your TV), the guy pulled about 3 feet of cable directly out of the wall to be used as the cable line. Problem: What if I want more than 3 feet of cable? I cannot change out the length of cable between the wall and TV because it's not attached to a wall outlet, it is coming directly out of the wall. What was he thinking??
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Made a note to call the effin' cable company on Monday to schedule another effin' service call to fix the effin' cable outlet.
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Finally opened the Tivo box I bought a week ago and read the installation instructions, only to realize I am installing it nowhere near a phone line required for downloading program information.
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Discovered Tivo can now also get its program information via a wireless computer network with a device that costs a mere $59.95 (if I want to wait for mail-order) or $64.99 (if I want to put on a bra and drag my ass down to Best Buy so I can get the effin' thing installed today.)
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Put on a bra and dragged my ass down to Best Buy.
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Resisted the temptation to buy a flat panel HDTV and only came away with a DVD/VCR combo ($89.99) in addition to the wireless Tivo gizmo.
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Hooked up and configured my shiny new Tivo, complete with wireless gizmo that allows me to watch my Tivo'd programs on up to 10 additional machines (TV's or computers) on my wireless home network (that I also set up all by myself, thankyouverymuch.)
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Hooked up the new DVD/VCR combo to the same TV/Tivo configuration and actually got everything to work as it is supposed to! With sound even!
- Had a mani/pedi because, while I am capable of all of this technological wonderment, I am still just a girl.
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