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My husband awakened sore from playing games on the Wii system last night with our son-in-law, who probably hasn’t noticed any soreness-it pays to be young and in shape. Robert, that’s our son-in-law, came in to save the day when the hook-up on the new VHS/DVD recordable went awry. The reality was that the VHS/DVD device was actually hooked up properly, but we were using the wrong remote to finish the settings. My husband is the choice in the household to hook up electronic devices, because his wife never reads the instruction booklets thinking that the pictures are sufficient for such jobs. A thought for wives like myself; your husbands are correct in reading the booklets so let them hook up the electronics. However, when the husbands have finished hooking up said electronic devices, insist that they let you have the remote of your choice because it was I who found the settings that awaited the command to finish the job.

It was totally by accident, I swear, because I was just looking at the buttons and considering the possibilities with my “due-thought” processor of a brain when it happened. I also use Fixodent on my dentures, so let’s not consider that the possibilities of my being incorrect are better than 50 percent most of the time. This time, by coincidence, was not one of the latter 50 percent and I was correct in what needed to be done. My husband had plopped down in total dismay at the problems facing his electronic agility and took no notice until the magic of stupidity, on my part, worked.

Robert; however, is an electronic genius that has no need of instruction booklets, manuals, or visually appealing pictures, to aid in his ability to properly deduce how all things are hooked together. He has made it a “one man” journey into insanity, but it’s easier than the option, which would be to interchange the remotes on a frequent basis to achieve results. We can now watch the television by using the surround sound remote, and only need to hit the power button on the television for the rest of the entertainment adventure. So far, we have a VHS/DVD device that has only been tested to make sure it works, and we have enjoyed the Wii games, but that’s another adventure in electronics.

The Wii, though I’m not sure I have the mechanics of that understood completely, hooks directly into the back of the television set. Hm, somehow you use the remote to reach the brain of the Wii through the input button on the television remote, and then you…okay, that’s where I get confused. I am going to have to have my husband write instructions so that I know what you do with which remote to achieve the desired affect. The end result is that we have 4 remotes that do have to be used to get the television on, the VHS/DVD operating, the surround sound audible, and the Wii games to play. And yet, Robert and Gary assure me that this is the best option…because the other option means that I would have to have a list of buttons to accomplish the same thing on the remotes and still need all 4 remotes to get there. Okay, what used to be a matter of turning on the power to the Direct TV, and then the television has now become an adventure whereby my skills will be limited because there are no instructions for what they set up.

“Couch Potato Be Gone” is the name of the 10-step program that I will be attending for the next 6 weeks to get over my television addiction. By the way, this program is sponsored under the new stimulus package…listed as “pork” it actually has a purpose.

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