Yesterday I trotted off to our local electronics store and bought a PJS? PBJ? BVD? PVC? PDQ? Oh! I remember. It's a PVR (Personal Video Recorder). Have I mentioned how much I hate new technology? I still can't figure out how to make a call from the contacts list on my cell phone for Pete's sake but here I am trying to connect a new fangled gadget to my old TV (TeleVision).

I unscrewed and rescrewed and unpluged and replugged and it didn't work.

Then I remembered I was supposed to call Shaw Cable to have them activate the box thing. I had to wait over an hour before I got to speak to a real person. Thank goodness they have "call back". The nice, tech support fellow in Winnipeg activated it and it still didn't work. He had me redoing everything I had already done plus a few extras and lo and behold it works! I don't want to get all technical with you so I won't bother telling you what I'd done wrong. Now, if only some good shows would be on so I could practice recording on the box thingy.....

I'm listing this under education because I sure learned my lesson. I'll never do that again.