My DVR, Is It A Blessing Or A Curse?!

DVR may be the greatest invention, since that individual packet Kool-Aid stuff! It allows me to keep my very weird hours and still not miss any of the TV shows I want to see! But, as Spiderman reminded us, with great power comes great responsiblity, and with the DVR (as great as it is) comes a problem that I'm not sure even I can surmount!

Currently in my DVR is stored 8 hours of the Steven King mini-series, Nightmares And Dreamscapes, The Cave, The Fog, Venom, about two hours of professional wrestling (yes, I love it!!) and about 6 hours of the Cartoon Network (Oh, just because I watch cartoons and you don't that makes you better than me!?!?!). So, all told, there's about 22 hours worth of things that I want to watch, stored on my hard drive...and it's still not even 50% full!! I find myself having an 'embarassment of riches'. In another week or two, I may have to take vacation time, just to watch everything I have stored on my DVR!! And, I don't store everything on there, I've actually gone through and deleted movies that I wanted to see (or re-see) before I ever got the chance to watch them, just to make room for other movies that I haven't seen yet! I deleted without watching The Fog (the original), Gunmen (a great movie starring Mario Van Peebles and Christopher Lambert) and who knows how many episodes of Law And Order, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who and I don't even want to think about it anymore...it's just too depressing.

So, while I love the DVR, it haunts me! Even now, I hear it's siren call, 'Come watch what I have stored for you.' 'Don't you want to see these great movies?' "Why do you ask me to record these movies, if you're never going to spend any time with me?'. Now, I know what you're thinking, 'Wah! Poor Brian, he's got too many movies to watch. Wah!' Well, it's my curse and I'll bear it, and eventually, I'll get all those movies watched. I just pray that I don't get the carpal tunnel syndrome from using the remote before that happens!!!