A Merry TiVo Christmas

So the problem with posting so often is that I don't always have anything interesting to write about. Work has been slow this week. Nobody much is in the lab, and that makes it awfully hard to concentrate and be productive. Christmas is Monday. We'll be spending Christmas Eve at my parents' house in Lawrenceville and Christmas Day in Augusta visiting various in-laws. My mother is having a hard time adjusting to the fact that now I have two families (techinically three since Josh's parents are divorced) to visit on holidays now. She laid the guilt trip on thick when I told her that since we spent Thanksgiving Day with my family, we'd spend Christmas Day with Josh's and next year we'd flip-flop. Her reason for being annoyed? Since Josh and I are coming to visit on Christmas Eve and Christmas Eve is a Sunday, this may mean she might have to miss church. I'm sorry, Mom, but I think God won't be too upset if you missed church once to spend time with your kids. Just a thought. (My mom's self-righteous bit really annoys me sometimes.)

In other news, Josh and I bought ourselves a TiVo as a Christmas present. Total impulse buy, but with a mail-in rebate it was basically free (although you do have to pay for the monthly service plan). Josh likes the fact that it can record any TV show you ever dreamed of. I mostly like the fact that it makes cool "boop-boop" noises. Josh likes it so much that I'm afraid there's going to come a time where I may have to send him to TiVo rehab. If there is such a thing as TiVo rehab. Currently on our list of things-to-record: "House," "CSI:," and "Scrubs." There's more on there than that, but I don't really care for anything else.

Josh is fond of those weird shows that come on the Cartoon Network very, very late at night. Have you ever seen any of that stuff--Adult Swim? Adult Swim starts off with things like "Family Guy" and "Futurama," which is cool because those are good shows. Then it gets into really bizarre stuff. Like, there's this one show about a talking detective...butt. No joke. It's called "Assy McGee." And there's some show about squids and another about talking fast-food items. I'm asleep by then, though. Josh records the fast-food one. I told him TiVo would go out the window if he taped the ass one.

Seriously, that's all I got for today. I'll try to make up for it tomorrow. Maybe.