welcome to the tivolution!

what does $199.99 – 10% – $150 equal? a super great deal on a tivo. i got this 10% off tivo coupon from circuit shitty and they are running a $150 mail-in rebate on tivos as well. you may know how i feel about mail-in rebates… i frickin’ loathe them. but sometimes you just gotta give in. sometimes you just gotta feed the monkey and hope the monkey doesn’t want to eat you too.

cable is going to be “installed” on saturday. by installed, i mean that some guy is going to come out and connect some wires on the side of the house. and that’s… ok. plus it’s cox, so i can say i’m getting cox installed. their expanded basic is actually better than their digital cable package. who would have thunk it?

now back to our regularly scheduled tivo. first of all, it takes a long time to get the whole system going. the downloads and phone link-ups aren’t so bad. it’s the indexing of the tv guide schedule. i guess it downloads the schedule for two weeks in advance and then it has to index it or something. it took like 5 hours, but i think it only takes that long on the first time. i hope it does. or else it better do its indexing when i’m sleeping in the wee hours of the night.

it’s frickin’ awesome, though. you can pause and rewind live tv. so you can go take a pee and come back to your show. or you can rewind something that you missed because someone in the room was talking too loud. it does it all. you can record an entire series by doing a “season pass,” which records that show whenever it is on.

let me just say this… i’m giddy like a schoolgirl and i only have access to four broadcast channels. just wait till the cable is turned on. this thing is going to fill up its 40 hours in one week. i can’t wait to see what shows it records for me based on my ratings. i wish i didn’t have to work ever again. i want to stay retired and spend the rest of my life with tivo. i do. i take this tivo to be my lawfully wedded life partner.