I got four more episodes of Namaste Yoga recorded to my yoga DVD. Two hours of sitting and watching yoga with my thumb on the pause button of a remote control is almost past my tolerance limit for watching yoga. Because I have been cutting out the commercials and the end credits, I still have enough room for about four more episodes. I also deleted a bunch of really advanced routines off the DVR, because I don’t care how many years I do yoga, I will never be able to do some of those poses, and I have no desire to do them. No sense recording them for posterity.

Now I have a movie, Mindwalk, recording. At least I don’t have to sit and watch it to take out commercials. I just have to keep an eye on when it ends so I can stop the recording … though I guess it doesn’t really matter since I am only putting the one movie on this DVD.

I have decided not to save the Knitty Gritty episodes either, and I will probably delete them later today after watching the few I don’t think I have seen before. They play reruns all the time, and I doubt I would ever be inspired to actually pull out a DVD of them and watch them again anyway.

And so, I am almost caught up on getting stuff off the DVR and on DVDs! We still have a few things to watch and delete, and I have to decide what to do about The Prisoner series I have been recording for my mom. Fact is, the DVR has screwed up twice and recorded a black screen instead of the episode, so I am already missing at least two that I know of (haven’t watched them all yet). I am beginning to think it would just be better to buy the boxed set for my mom and give it to her as a Mother’s Day gift. Sure, it’s $70, but I don’t think I have the patience to sit through 17 hours of the show taking out the commercials, and in order to not use a zillion DVDs, I’d have to record it in lower quality. She’d be much happier with the nice, high-quality, commercial free, boxed set. Not to mention the problem of the missing episodes, which means I would have to wait and see if they rerun the whole series again, try to catch them, and THEN finally get around to recording them, hopefully in order. I’m thinking not doing all that work is worth $70 to me.

There are about a hundred things I should be doing right now, but my head is still throbbing. It’s doing more of a low humming throb now, so I guess the aspirin is helping somewhat. I told Lin what happened and asked him if he thought I should be more concerned about having bonked myself on the head. His only reply was “Head injuries are weird.” Well, thanks for putting my aching brain at ease! He really needs to work on his bedside manner. One of these days, I’ll have to tell you how he reacts when I am choking on something. It’s a laugh riot …. unless you happen to be choking at the moment.

I think I’ll call my mom and get that out of the way so I won’t have to call her for a few days. Then maybe I can get to some of the housework. If nothing else gets done today, I at least have to stuff the last of the trash in the bin so I can wheel it to the curb tonight so I don’t forget again. Forgetting to put the trash bin out a second week would create a major crisis … one I do not wish to experience.