Vaya con Dios, VCR

I junked the first of my three VCRs today. I've been taping programs off the air for years on VHS tapes, then playing them back so I can skip the commercials. Worked fine for me. Then, prodded by #1 Son (tip-o-the-hat to Charlie Chan), finally got an HD TV with DVR. Wouldn't you know it, soon as the latest gizmo entered the house, one of the older ones decided to die.

Tried to restore it. Took the cover off, peered inside, had no idea what I was looking at. The cassette refused to eject. It hummed, I hawed. I finally closed it all up and put it out for recycling. Realized I probably will have no further use for it anyway. I do have two other VCRs but after viewing the remaining tapes, what will I do with those? DVR trumps VHS/VCR.

And Marv muddles on.

In Spanish?

I'm a member of Generation O (for over-age). No one cares what I watch or read but I try to keep up anyway. Just switched to FIOS (Really Big!) but found it it stands for Frequently Incomprehensible Operating System. Example: I went to my blog page yesterday and it came up in SPANISH! And I didn't even Press 1. I hope this comes out in English but, hey, you never know.

A very nice young man spent an entire day switching me from Comcast to Verizon internet, TV and telephone service. And now the remote on my tuner doesn't work. His fault or mine for pulling out what I thought were excess cables? Doesn't matter. I can still use the tuner -- but manually.