Less Agony. . .

[spacial_k]

Seems I may have popped a rib head out of alignment, which sounds really gross, but isn't apparently as bad as it seems and will likely go back in on it's own with the help of rest, stretching, Advil, heat, cold, rolling around on a tennis ball, and more Advil.  I am feeling much better now after my treatment Monday night and getting all "pokey and

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[spacial_k]

So I have an old TV that has a single cable input in back and a component input in front, so totally old fashioned. This meant a little different set-up than Tivo showed on their website. Tivo is funny, they show you a set-up with a Tivo box and no VCR and a set-up with a Tivo box and a VCR, but neither option shows you how to use the VCR to tape a second show at the same time as you are Tivo-ing the first show.

Basically, I took my VCR out of the loop with the Tivo so that the Tivo connects to the TV in the back directly instead of through the VCR and then I split the cable at the back of the wall and had one piece go to the Tivo and once piece go to the VCR which I then attached to the TV through the input jack in the front of the TV. This is the input jack I use for the DVD player, too, so if I want to watch a DVD now, I have to make sure I'm not recording anything with the VCR during that time. Somehow I doubt I will be wanting to simultaneously record two shows and watch a third thing on DVD, so I think I'm safe. I tested it out last night and it is working.

Tivo's theory is that you can have your digital signal coming in through the Tivo and cable box and have an analog signal coming in through the split cable directly to the TV and you watch your second show by flipping channels on your TV directly while your Tivo records off the cable box. I figured I might as well hook the VCR in between the wall and the TV and record what was coming in on the analog signal. This means I only get basic cable on that side, but it covers Grey's Anatomy, which is my only conflict right now.

Yeah, the tennis ball thing is me standing against a wall with the tennis ball placed between me and the wall and I roll it around the area where I hurt and it massages and realigns things. It looks kinda funny to watch me do it at work, but it feels really good.