Last night was the season premiere for both Buffy (7th year of dedicated addiction) and Gilmore Girls (which I really can’t recommend enough). We’re still in what I’d call our “summer schedule” right now, however, which means that our house was full of people last night.
\nPiece of cake: we’ve got three different VCR’s capable of taping shows in the house, and all of them work just fine — this is the same sort of gymnastics we pulled off all last season. We don’t even have to do any complicated “timed” recordings because, after all, we’re going to be right there<\/i>.
\nRight. It’s been awhile since we’ve had to do all that. At a guess, I’d say we’re out of practice.
\nBuffy: forgot to start the recording, then the VCR was on the wrong channel, so we basically missed the standard “scene before the music starts”.
\nGG: did this one on a timer, which started just fine, recorded the first twenty minutes, and then shut off, because apparently that’s what we told<\/i> it to do.
\nUgh. Me not grok the ‘lectroniks so gud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last night was the season premiere for both Buffy (7th year of dedicated addiction) and Gilmore Girls (which I really can’t recommend enough). We’re still in what I’d call our “summer schedule” right now, however, which means that our house was full of people last night. Piece of cake: we’ve got three different VCR’s capable … <\/p>\n