First things first: Yay Patriots!
Second: The best thing about having a ReplayTV unit:
The new "segment skip" feature.
Originally, the box had Commercial Advance (ours still does, I understand the newer ones don't), allowing you to jump through the commercial breaks. Not perfect, as it goes by signals from the networks, and they can be inaccurate.
In order to make themselves less available for lawsuits, they changed that in the newer boxes, and now have a "segment skip" feature. By hitting a different button on the remote, you can jump over parts of the program you're watching. Usually the same sort of thing as Commercial Advance, just not calling it that.
However, it can also be used to skip the actual segments of the program you're watching, and view only the commercials.
Why yes, I did tape the Superbowl on Sunday, as it was opposite our new Sunday D&D d20 game. And yes, after the game was over, I selected Play from beginning, and segment skipped all the silly football stuff, to watch the commercials.
I missed a few, perhaps they were in the pre-game show, or just got lost in the skipping somewhere. But I did get to see my Superbowl ads.
Favorite: The donkey wanting to be a Budweiser clydesdale, hands down.
Other favorites: The football players singing, The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow, with the tag line of "Tomorrow, we'll all be undefeated again." I loved the sentiment, even though it took me until the guy wearing the St. Louis Rams shirt to realize they were football players. The Frito Lay commercial was funny if a bit dark, and the kids with the soap in their mouths was good for a laugh, though I thought it took a bit much to get to the punchline. Lou and I got some good laughs over the alien FedEx commercial. And though Lou had seen it before, I liked the IBM/Linux ad. And the Apple/Pepsi ad, though I'd seen it in advance.
I had also set it to recording Survivor as a part of the Superbowl recording, going 80 minutes after the Superbowl's supposed end. Obviously I did not get it all.
I was going to delete it first thing Monday morning, but Lou pleaded to keep it. As I had skipped the halftime show, I missed the whole brouhaha. I just want to delete it before we head off on our vacation.
Third thing: Yes, we're going to Las Vegas again on vacation. Leaving this Thursday, returning next Tuesday. Going to spend Saturday night with certain people and maybe even another who might show up for a visit.
I'm bringing the Palm and will likely be doing a travelogue like I did last time.
Lastly: In other news, I had dinner with my first ex-sister-in-law last evening at my mother-in-law's house. Have I mentioned in this blog that my brother-in-law (that would be Lou's brother) is back with his first wife, after his second one (the one who went on the aforementioned Las Vegas trip with us before) dumped him. I did not know that she was going to be there, and it was a pleasant dinner, though I think we are all still feeling our way around this whole messy situation.
There, Alex, is that enough blogging for you for now? My ardent readership is hopefully satisfied for a little bit.