Twisted Sideways

My worst nightmare has come true. My DVR died.  Something in the back of my mind told me that it was coming.  I guess, in a way, I was being naive and/or didn’t want to believe that the end was near.

I’ve been pretty busy with work and life and my DVR had been filling up with the numerous shows that I tend to record on a weekly basis.  DirecTv has a DVR that can hold a lot more shows than the Time Warner DVR’s so I had taken full advantage of the amount of space that was on the sucker.  Many times though, I have been given a hard time from friends when they have seen the huge amount of content on my DVR or the fact that I hadn’t caught up on current running shows that everyone talked about.  This was again the case for me.  The menus were running slow. I thought at one point maybe the remote batteries were dying because of the huge lag from pushing a button to the time the screen changed.  All of this happened one night and I went to bed not giving it a second thought.  The next, nothing.

I cried a little that day.  There were episodes I never got around to watching.  Don’t judge here, but the series finales of 24 and Heros were still yet to be watched, 20 episodes of the office, 5 of The Soup, 10 of the Apprentice, and tons of other shows.  But I also had saved some of my favorite episodes of Modern Family, Deadliest Catch and numerous other shows that I went and watched at other times too.  All this said, on Monday, we said goodbye.

I’ve moved on.  It’s been rough and feels weird starting a new.  A replacement has arrived but it’s just not the same.  We’re getting to know each other and I’m learning some new things about her.  It will take some to get back to the days when I don’t think about my old DVR when I turn on the new one.

Here’s to 2011 and new changes.