I spent the afternoon transferring recorded TV shows from a DVR to DVDs using a device. It involves replaying the recorded show on the DVR (or it could be a VCR or Camcorder) while the device is recording to the DVD. To skip commercials, the device is manually paused, and I have a feeling that the volume of the audio that gets recorded onto the DVD might depend on having the TV turned up loud. Maybe not, but maybe so.

Anyhow, because the DVD has to be mastered by the device so it will play on computers and DVD players, I can't make one DVD and then copy it using my computer. I have to sit there for the 2 1/2 hours and listen to all those TV shows over and over and over, poised to pause it during the commercials.

I could sell these DVDs to people who went through the floods, but it's such a pain to make them, I'm not going to market them. So far I have only two people who spoke up and said they wanted one, so I'll make one for me, and those two and maybe an extra.

When I was on the third one, I had the bright idea of muting the TV so I didn't have to listen to various people saying "it's the new normal." They all think they are clever saying it, but everyone says it, so it's just stale. So is "Mountain Strong" and its variations: "Glen Haven Strong," "Colorado Strong," etc.

That muting was a big mistake because the device records whatever is on the TV screen: so the subtitles that appeared when the TV was muted were recorded, and that's when I decided the recorded audio is probably affected by the volume on the TV. I decided this foggy thinking was the result of exhaustion, so will have another recording session some other day.

The only interesting thing about it is that I am going to have to make a decision whether to cut out those promo bits right before the commercials: 'And next, we'll show you how a church in Erie ... blah, blah, blah" and there is no new info in that blurb - it's the exact stuff they are going to show later.