PVR
After seeing Lilly, I caught a bus back to the city and went to Broadway DSE. I wanted to get something to record the NBA games they were going to show on tv. I asked one guy, and he just said "yeah, but they're a bit expensive". Another guy who overheard us said he would help me after he put some stuff away.
Clever guy.
He showed me a PVR for $300, which I ended up buying. It was $100 more than I had planned to spend, but eh. Not having the car, I had to carry it all the way to the bus stop and home.
I installed it when I got home and everything worked fine, except one thing: you could not transfer the saved stuff from the HDD to usb or anything else. It had 500GB and when you ran outta space, you just had to delete stuff. That wasn't what I wanted. My plan is to record every NBA game they're going to show on One. I thought about returning it, but then didn't want the trouble, and thought I'd just use it to store really really important games.
On Sunday morning I went to the courts for a quick shootaround for about 30 minutes. It felt so good. My left knee still hadn't fully recovered yet, but I could jump around a bit. I instinctively found myself trying to protect my left knee. My right knee seemed fine, except the stretchy feeling around the incision area.
I then went home to change and met A at the pool. I got there a bit early so I bought 10 more visits. When he came we talked about the school reunion, and he told me about an incident at work where he implied his boss was a "suicidal neighbour", lol. I told him about my PVR purchase, and he said I can record and transfer stuff with a DVD recorder, and he insisted I take it back.
We did 11 laps, but having skipped the mid-week session, I found it a bit harder cardio-wise.
After that I went home, had a shower and had breakfast, and then decided to take the thing back for exchange. A was enough to push me.
So I went back to the shop and had another guy help me out. He was really helpful, but he said the only thing that could do what I wanted to do cost $699. I asked him to show it to me and I took a look at the other stuff while he went looking out the back. When he came back, I asked him what another machine that cost $399 did. He said it would do what I wanted, but for some reason it didn't come up on the machine.
Suuuuuure...
So I ended up getting that, but the downside is that it only records SD, not HD. It was only until I got home that I noticed the difference in quality.
So anyway, I carried it home again, and this one didn't even have a handle. By the time I got home, it was time to go out again. As I walked down the stairs, there was incredible pain in my left knee, causing me to stop for a few moments. I thought about cancelling, but then figured I could muster the rest of the stairs.
Clever guy.
He showed me a PVR for $300, which I ended up buying. It was $100 more than I had planned to spend, but eh. Not having the car, I had to carry it all the way to the bus stop and home.
I installed it when I got home and everything worked fine, except one thing: you could not transfer the saved stuff from the HDD to usb or anything else. It had 500GB and when you ran outta space, you just had to delete stuff. That wasn't what I wanted. My plan is to record every NBA game they're going to show on One. I thought about returning it, but then didn't want the trouble, and thought I'd just use it to store really really important games.
On Sunday morning I went to the courts for a quick shootaround for about 30 minutes. It felt so good. My left knee still hadn't fully recovered yet, but I could jump around a bit. I instinctively found myself trying to protect my left knee. My right knee seemed fine, except the stretchy feeling around the incision area.
I then went home to change and met A at the pool. I got there a bit early so I bought 10 more visits. When he came we talked about the school reunion, and he told me about an incident at work where he implied his boss was a "suicidal neighbour", lol. I told him about my PVR purchase, and he said I can record and transfer stuff with a DVD recorder, and he insisted I take it back.
We did 11 laps, but having skipped the mid-week session, I found it a bit harder cardio-wise.
After that I went home, had a shower and had breakfast, and then decided to take the thing back for exchange. A was enough to push me.
So I went back to the shop and had another guy help me out. He was really helpful, but he said the only thing that could do what I wanted to do cost $699. I asked him to show it to me and I took a look at the other stuff while he went looking out the back. When he came back, I asked him what another machine that cost $399 did. He said it would do what I wanted, but for some reason it didn't come up on the machine.
Suuuuuure...
So I ended up getting that, but the downside is that it only records SD, not HD. It was only until I got home that I noticed the difference in quality.
So anyway, I carried it home again, and this one didn't even have a handle. By the time I got home, it was time to go out again. As I walked down the stairs, there was incredible pain in my left knee, causing me to stop for a few moments. I thought about cancelling, but then figured I could muster the rest of the stairs.
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