A few people on my flist are doing that 30 day meme. I don't think i'll do it because i know i won't keep it up the whole time but some of the topics do interest me. I've put the meme topics below at the end behind the cut in case anyone's interested. Besides i don't really think most people would want to know, in detail, things like what i ate today, or what i wore or my dreams in great details. I don't even remember most of my dreams and many of them that i do remember just after waking can be pretty bizarre. One of the topics i know i could write a lot about, though, is my parents. I won't, not now, but all i will say is that i know i've been very lucky to have the parents i have. My dad is gone but i still feel him with me and feel his influence every day, even if it's just a silly pun i might make or understanding when someone talks electrical stuff. (he was an electrician) My mom and i have always been close, a different kind of close than she and my sister have. They have motherhood in common which, of course, i wouldn't have, me not having any rugrats ;) My parents are very special and i count myself lucky. I know i said that already but it bears repeating. My whole family just rocks, anyway, but that's for another post another time :)
Continuing the dvr saga... it looks like it did record something last night and this morning i was able to set up some series programs to record and set a movie to record during today while i'm at work. The box had turned itself off overnight though i'd left it on with the tv off as is my habit from the old box but apparently that's normal according to someone at work that has the same one. I also found out that apparently i can actually hook up an external hard drive to this one (and maybe that also means a usb flash drive, too) which would be great for being able to keep a movie i will want to watch again once the movie channel isn't carrying it anymore or for recording something that Mom might want to watch. Gives you extra Hard drive space too, which is useful since if you record in high definition, it eats up a lot more space.
This new box has a 250 g. hard drive which is bigger than the old one which might have been a 160, not sure. He gave me a brochure on the hook up procedures but i haven't looked at it or the back of the box yet. If it can go to a usb flash drive as well as an external, i might run out and get a 4 or 8 gig usb key. I do have an external hard drive but would prefer to just leave that plugged into the computer but i could use that if i had to. It would save me downloading movies and risk dubious quality but if it doesn't actually work or i can't make it work, i'm no worse off than i am now.
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