This is the progress of the evening.
5:00pm First (of course) double check that Tivo is all set up to record American Idol and Lost.
5:00 – 7:00 Do laundry, have dinner, give Chance bath.
7:10pm Keen checks American Idol winner via Internet. (Because we can!)
7:30 – 9:15 Put Chance to bed. More laundry. A little computer work.
9:20pm Start watching Lost… am fully absorbed (but still feel smug about fast-forwarding through commercials).
11:05pm Switch over to the recorded American Idol. (I still want to see the contestant reactions, you know?) Fast-forward through all musical numbers except Green Day. Watch Green Day. Fast forward to end. Careful now… don’t overshoot… shit! Start from beginning. Get to the end again… slowly slowly… everyone’s standing around looking excited… Ryan starts fondling the envelope… aaaand…
Damn Tivo recording ends.
Oh well. I would have been really pissed if Lost had gotten cut off.
– the weirdgirl
Always always ALWAYS set TiVo to record an extra 10 minutes on Idol result nights. I think they actually stayed on schedule maybe twice this entire season.
I don’t have Tivo, but I do have a dvd-recorder. I set it to record in extended play mode so that it would record all of LOST. I watched LOST while it was on and it’s a good thing I did because my dvd-recorder decided it really didn’t want to do the extended-recording time thing and it cut off the last 3 minutes. C’mon! That’s 3 minutes of excitement. Dammit. I’ll never trust that dvd-recorder again.
When you miss “Lost” do you realy miss anything???
The show lost me early on.
(Actually, ours is a DVR too. I just find I always call it “Tivo”.)
I LOVE Lost! But yeah, it is a little convoluted. I’m just waiting for Ben to get killed at this point.
Arrg! DVR’s can be so irritating! I have learned to set my shows to start recording early and finish recording late so I don’t miss the good stuff…otherwise you are left going WTF? Just think though, as mother’s, without dvr’s we wouldn’t get to watch anything we like because we are busy mothering.
Dude wasn’t Lost a trip last week!! I’ve never been so glad a fictional character was killed in my life. TVBuddy.com has a post today about what the obit. Jack was holding said.
If you’re into idol check out my site http://www.americansuperstars.tv. I post every weekday.