Later personal - a bit annoyed

E. just called. He was home from work. Had a busy night. Was tired. (I'd eaten dinner there earlier tonight - a delicious spicy crab cake, etc.)

I think around the time of his move into the new place, I'd promised to give E. my four-year-old DVD Recorder / VCR Combo, which I never use. He'd asked me to bring it over on Monday, the night I got him online with AT&T. I had looked in back of the TV and seen all the colorful connections between the recorder and the cable box (and even snapped the picture below and emailed it to him so he could see what a mess it was), and told him that unhooking the recorder would have to wait for another day. (As it was, I barely had enough time to get him online that night, considering I started working on it after I'd gotten home from work and couldn't stay out late since I had to get up and go to work the next day.)

When he just called and I told him I was making of list of things to learn on the computer for Monday, he again brought up the DVD recorder. It kind of ticked me off. I thought, what's up with that - he has a deluxe cable package as it is (as I saw online at Comcast today). I told him he pays twice as much for cable as I do, that I'd teach him how to watch TV shows on his computer, and not to make the DVD recorder a priority (but said that tomorrow I'd look into disconnecting it, which I will). (Maybe he's accustomed to having use of a DVD recorder at the BF's.)

He must have sensed that I was annoyed. But seriously, with the cable package he has - and with the new computer he's started using to go online - he's certainly got enough stuff to keep himself entertained until I get around to disconnecting the recorder.

But I guess that will be my project for tomorrow. I'm not going to attempt to connect it for him at his place, however. He'll get the recorder and the owner's manual (along with the "Quick Setup Guide" for connecting to a cable box). Tonight he insisted that it was easy. (Maybe the one he was used to was newer and/or easier to connect.) He said you just plug this into this - and I reminded him there were yellow plugs, red plugs, white plugs, black plugs, etc.

P.S. The "Quick Setup Guide" (below) has Comcast's 800 number written on it, along with some instructions, so I must have had to call Comcast to get help at the time I connected the cable box to the recorder. (I also see a couple of X's - I guess the Quick Setup Guide was wrong (?).) Let's just see how "easy" this will be for E. (Maybe he has a better aptitude for this kind of stuff than I do.) (Which actually wouldn't surprise me - I don't pretend to be a whiz at this stuff myself.)

P.P.S. No longer feel annoyed.