The DVR is the Best Invetion EVER!

Everyone has that gadget or gizmo that they just couldn't live without. For some it's their cell phone, for others their laptop, kindle, iPad, whatever. Mine is my DVR. I believe that the DVR is just about the best invention EVAH! And I will tell you why, using "The Great Pumpkin" to illustrate. Earlier today, it occurred to me that the greatest of all Halloween specials ("It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown") should be coming on TV sometime in the next 2 weeks. Now when you and I were kids, we had to first get a copy of The TV Guide and search through it to find out WHEN "The Great Pumpkin" was coming on. Then we had to go to Mom and Dad and BEG them to miss "Barnaby Jones" just this once so we could watch the antics of Charlie Brown. The we had to actually be in front of the TV when it came on, which was especially hard if it came on on Wednesday or Sunday night when we might have choir practice or GA's (remember GA's?) or something else on that night. Everybody had to sit still be quiet while you watched it, because there was no rewinding because somebody was talking during the best part ("I got a rock."). There was no pausing while someone went to the bathroom....nooooooo. And the commercials! You had to sit through every single stinkin' one! OMG!!! And when those final credits rolled, it was kinda sad because you knew you wouldn't get to see Snoopy and the Red Baron again until NEXT Halloween. But all that is over now, thanks to the greatest invention EVAH, the DVR. Today I put in a search for "The Great Pumpkin", and I found it in mere seconds. I have it set to record on October 27th at 8:00. After it records, my family and I (except for my husband, who HATES Peanuts cartoons) can sit down and watch it whenever we choose. We can watch it as many times as we choose, pausing, rewinding, and fast-forwarding through those pesky commercials to our hearts content. Thanks to the DVR, we never say, "150 channels and there's NOTHING ON!" There's ALWAYS something on at our house. Whenever anyone tells me that they don't have a DVR, I look at them as if they are some kind of an alien...like they're a weirdo. I'm probably the weirdo here, but this weirdo will NOT be missing "The Great Pumpkin" this year!