OK, how sad is this. I spent almost two hours trying to put together some crappy toy called a beyblade. I even tried to use the directions. Which were retarded. Don’t do it. Just fumble and use the picture on the front of the box. It was how I finally got it together. Oh yeah and the stuff BARELY goes together. So just so you know.

So then I decided to hook up my new living room VCR. Our old one was BAAAAAD. We would have to max the volume on the tv to hear the audio. And everything had lines. But we got the vcr used 9 years ago. Sooo it was probably getting to death. VCR’s are pretty cheap and Sir Megabyte’s dad had given us a walmart gift card. We still have like 50 bucks on it to figure out what to do with. Yay.

So anyway, it took me longer to figure out which cord behind the entertainment center was the vcr plug than to set up the vcr and set the clock!

Which brings me to a new rant. Why don’t VCR’s have clocks on them anymore? Is this so that the 12:00 flashers of the world don’t have to deal with the flashing 12:00? If so, forget you 12:00 flashers. I now have no clock in my living room. GRRR. I don’t want to buy one. I want the one on my VCR. GRRR If I am watching the satelite then all I have to do is hit “cancel” and it will tell me the time, but why should I have to fumble for a remote. And what if I am watching a tape or a dvd? I just think it is dumb. VCR’s are supposed to have clocks on them people!

I did set the clock though the only thing I record right now is recorded upstairs because it a time conflict issue. So I wouldn’t be able to record it down here anyway.

Oh and for the record, just so the local channels know, my brand stinking new vcr says I can’t pick up your channels either. It did some dumb autosearch for channels. What’s the point in that? Who changes the chanel on their vcr? You set it for 3 and leave it there!

Oh the nice thing about this vcr is that even though I sacrificed my clock (GRRR) I now have front connectors for gaming. 🙂 Or my camcorder! WOOHOO. OOOOH OH MY GOSH, even better my digital camera! I can test that out. I’ve been wanting to just always too freaking lazy to climb behind the entertainment center to plug in the cables! HEHE I mean, what a pain in the arse. (no our tv does not have them on the front either. The new one for the kids does though. I specifically looked for it in the ads.)

I now have an official vcr remote as well. Our vcr didn’t have one. The guy had lost it. No big since you can easily program it from the front hitting the “timer” key. However with this one I think I might actually have to use the remote. Bleh. However it does have that new feature that our upstairs vcr (we got it last Christmas) has… you hit the record button a few times and it will record for a specific time. That’s kind of cool. I did that second to last time I recorded Tru Calling upstairs. Recorded only an hour and a half instead of just hitting record and running which is what I had been doing. The next week I actually remembered to do it before the show was getting ready to start (usually I remember about five minutes before so I would race upstairs with a tape and switch the channel and just hit record) so I programmed it. And found out that one actually I could set up a repeating timer. Neat… it is ALMOST as cool as a DVR! I mean it doesn’t change channels, but it will record at 8:00 pm every Thursday. So I did that. I’ll see if it works this week. HEHE

OK… so what have I learned?

1. Never read directions even on stupid kid toys. They just make you take five times as long because they are dumb. Hmmm, wonder if I should have looked at the VCR directions? Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
2. VCR COMPANIES NEED TO GIVE US BACK OUR CLOCKS
3. Local Channels are idiots since my brand new vcr couldn’t pick them up any more than my year or two old tv. (That’s a rant from a few months ago.) I’m telling you, you can’t pick things up over the airwaves anymore. There’s just too much interferance. Of course the fact there is an AIRPORT between me and all the channels could have a LITTLE to do with it. Ya think? Plus the fact that it is several miles through a CITY. I’m not sure how far as the crow would fly.

Now to do some REAL work.

Hmmm, wonder what I should do with this old vcr. Is there someone to donate it to? I mean, does anyone take that kind of thing or do I just throw it in the trash?