The Sunday before last, I came home from a day away to discover my Tivo wasn’t working. My brother took a look at it and diagnosed a failed hard drive. So sad…bye bye to all my saved recordings, to all the Eurekas which I was saving up to watch at one time, to who knows all what!

Last Friday, I contacted Tivo and told them about my hard drive problem. The first person I talked to said: “Oh so sorry, you bought it, it’s yours, there’s nothing we can do“. I asked him to connect me to the proper person so I could cancel my service.

That person said: “Oh, your hard drive died? I see your unit is only 2.5 years old, that’s MUCH too soon for a hard drive to have died, we’ll ship you a new Tivo free of charge.

ROFLMAO! Talk about opposite ends of the spectrum! So I have to ship my Tivo back, and since they don’t have any of that particular type of Tivo in the warehouse, they’re sending me an upgraded model

FREE!

While I heart my Tivo, I must admit I’ve enjoyed being tv-less lately. I’ve noticed I eat less (seems I enjoy eating in front of the tv), read more, walk Wolf more, have more/longer conversations, just DO more.

So I’m in no hurry to return my old Tivo, nor in a hurry for the new one to arrive. Once that connection was severed, it seemed to also sever a dependence I didn’t realize I’d had.

In the meantime, I hope my brother comes over soon and hooks up that wireless modem I bought yesterday, so I can enjoy my laptop, which I got a few weeks ago, and haven’t used much (it IS convenient for watching movies on when I housesit and can’t figure out how to work someone’s tv, or when I’m staying in a motel with no cable)!

How about you? What are your addictions?

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1. Uneven :: bricks
2. Wonder :: world
3. Spider :: YUCK!
4. Emma :: line
5. Swing :: shift
6. Orbit :: planets
7. Flirt :: Michelle
8. Donation :: charity
9. Veil :: of doom
10. Atmosphere :: is thick

My new tattoo, on the left and my new future tattoo on the right

Yesterday and today were quite the days!

I got a new tattoo last night; Megan came with and got one, too! We had fun talking with John, he’s such a great guy and so damn talented! And no, I don’t have hepatitis, my foot is just yellow & orange from the ink!

Had dinner at the The Peddler’s Daughter on the way home. Nice place, lots of drunks tho

Today I got lost going to my brother’s…turned around and missed the exit I needed, and decided to go the eff home LOL! Saw a great blue heron feeding in a pond, went home, picked up Dad and my camera. Got a couple shots, the bird was too far away, so sad. Took Dad for a ride with me to Nashua, where I was going to pick up a wireless router. I also ended up getting a new phone, which has…best of all…navigational capabilities, which I MOST DEFINITELY need! I love it!

Navigated my @$$ over to Michelle’s; we were going to take a bus in town, but decided against that as it was HOT AS HADES here today! We decided instead to see a movie. Went to The Blue Room first for a bite, and we loved it there so much we passed on the movie LOL! The food was fantasic, I had light fluffy little pillows of gnocchi (Michelle said they were too soft, but this non-Italian didn’t know any better) that were flavored with a lemon sauce. YUM! Our waitress was incredibly, passionate about her job which was nice, VERY nice!

My phone got me home the shortest possible route, even tho I took a wrong turn, recalculating the route, she told me, I named her Jessamyn

How has your weekend been so far?

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