I Heart Tivo

I traded a friend a Coach purse for her Tivo, and it's been the best trade ever. I don't think I could live without the Tivo now. I've tried it, actually, and it was ugly. I moved the TV and so I had to unhook everything and when I hooked it back up I put one, just one, of the 28 cords in the wrong place, and the whole thing shut down. I kept getting this sad message: Tivo can't display live TV. What?!? No live TV? Well, that's okay, actually. What I'm worried about is the backlog of CSI, Law & Order, Alias, 24, Survivor, and Battlestar Gallactica that's awaiting me. WHAT IF ALL OF MY PROGRAMS ARE LOST? WHAT COULD BE WORSE THAN THAT?

That's what I was asking myself. After about two hours, I was still seeing the sad (and now mildly irritating) "can't display live TV" message. It was 11 p.m. so I went to bed. Actually, I stomped into my room and set the VCR to record Survivor the next night in case I wasn't able to fix Tivo.

So the next evening I unhooked everything again and started over. Still no live TV, and the "Tivo can't display live TV" message was now mocking me. I knew on some level this was my fault and not Tivo's, but I was totally pissed off at Tivo.

I finally figured out the single cord problem, and bingo--Live TV! I apologized to Tivo, got my knitting together, and tucked in to an evening of saved programs. Tivo didn't let me down, it was there for me, as always.