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susandennisI'm sorry people who hate snow or are tired of snow have snow. I would love some. But instead, I have a threat of hitting 90 degrees today. I'm wondering if today is a day I should set up the air conditioner. It's comfortable in here now with the shades drawn and the fan on. I thought, when I first went to bed last night, it was going to be too hot but it turned out not to be so maybe tonight will be the same.
BUT, checking my trusty air conditioning spread sheet, it looks like there have been several the past decade when I've set it up in early-ish May so probably that will happen.
My love/hate relationship with TiVo continues and today hit, once again, the love mark. They revamped the UI last year and then a few months ago added in required ads. You click play and now, instead of the show, you get a very annoying delay and then a random advertisement for whatever and then the show. The old UI did not have that so I rolled back. But, this morning I happened on a couple of forum posts about people, with long standing accounts, calling TiVo and requesting those ads be removed... successfully. My account is now 10 years old.
So, WTF. I called and nicely asked that they remove what they call the pre-roll ads. A nice lady asked me for the serial number of the box I wanted them removed from and then said that she'd have them gone in 72 hours. I'm not going to quite believe it until I see it but Hallelujah! Pending.
Not that there is anything to record these days... But, still. I'm hopeful there will be someday. I watched the last episode of Tommy last night. That was a great show with a great future. Killed before it even reached its prime.
My nephew turned me onto a BBC series that is now on Britbox and I think a season or two is on Hulu - called Inside No. 9. The first episode was weird, a little funny, and dark. The second was just flat out hilarious... and dark. But, mostly hilarious. And there are lots of episodes left. So yeah!
Biggie is outside looking for flies or crows or leaves that blow. Who knows. He's such a busy cat - so many things to do, check on, take care of. I feel like one day I'm going to look and he will have pulled out a little notebook and pencil to check stuff off his list. But, maybe he's not that organized.
Oh, just remembered I have not cleaned out his litter box yet today. Better get on that. And. The air conditioner.
BUT, checking my trusty air conditioning spread sheet, it looks like there have been several the past decade when I've set it up in early-ish May so probably that will happen.
My love/hate relationship with TiVo continues and today hit, once again, the love mark. They revamped the UI last year and then a few months ago added in required ads. You click play and now, instead of the show, you get a very annoying delay and then a random advertisement for whatever and then the show. The old UI did not have that so I rolled back. But, this morning I happened on a couple of forum posts about people, with long standing accounts, calling TiVo and requesting those ads be removed... successfully. My account is now 10 years old.
So, WTF. I called and nicely asked that they remove what they call the pre-roll ads. A nice lady asked me for the serial number of the box I wanted them removed from and then said that she'd have them gone in 72 hours. I'm not going to quite believe it until I see it but Hallelujah! Pending.
Not that there is anything to record these days... But, still. I'm hopeful there will be someday. I watched the last episode of Tommy last night. That was a great show with a great future. Killed before it even reached its prime.
My nephew turned me onto a BBC series that is now on Britbox and I think a season or two is on Hulu - called Inside No. 9. The first episode was weird, a little funny, and dark. The second was just flat out hilarious... and dark. But, mostly hilarious. And there are lots of episodes left. So yeah!
Biggie is outside looking for flies or crows or leaves that blow. Who knows. He's such a busy cat - so many things to do, check on, take care of. I feel like one day I'm going to look and he will have pulled out a little notebook and pencil to check stuff off his list. But, maybe he's not that organized.
Oh, just remembered I have not cleaned out his litter box yet today. Better get on that. And. The air conditioner.
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Date: 2020-05-11 02:19 pm (UTC)We haven't gotten to the last episode yet. Have they really killed it permanently? That would be unfortunate.
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The TiVo preroll ads are starting to annoy me again, too, after several weeks where they were pretty ignorable. Now they've started being super loud again, which was what I'd complained about early on. I think I'll ask them to turn them off on my box, too.
Other than the preroll ads, I'm still very happy with the BOLT I bought last year, especially how if there's something I want to watch, it knows if there's anywhere I'm already paying for that I can watch it right now. It's on Netflix right now? Boom, here ya go. Running on HBO this month? Here it is on HBO GO. Free on Amazon Prime? Starting now on the TiVo. Available to record tomorrow night on Bravo? Sold.
Of course I've been plowing through lots of recorded stuff the last two months, but there's plenty more to watch. I started watching all of the Marvel movies in order with a friend (don't worry, she's 15 miles away and we're watching in separate places while texting) and just zoomed through the recent set of DC superhero movies over the last few days. Also trying to catch up on "Homeland" and should really get back to "Outlander" and...
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