Yesterday was a day of being rescued by my wife. It started in the morning when I needed a book for a talk in Church the next day. I couldn’t find it so I asked her if we had the book. We did and she retrieved it from the bookcase from the shelf it was supposed to be on. I’m sure that I had looked there two or three times. That led me to sign up for LibraryThing and start entering our collection of books. So far that capability has worked pretty well.

As the Stake Sunday School President, each month I speak in a different Ward in the Stake as the companion to the scheduled High Counselor speaker. That usually happens on the third Sunday of the month, except this month the third Sunday is Stake Conference. I also teach the High Priest Group in our Ward on the second Sunday of each month. So that meant I was scheduled to teach in one Ward and talk in a different Ward. In my brain I had it figured out … Priesthood Meeting would be from 9 to 9:50 in our Ward, and Sacrament Meeting started at 10:50 in the other Ward. However, I had forgotten that our new meeting schedule for this year has Sacrament Meeting first … which meant that both activities I was scheduled for would be happening at the same time. Nina, however, had not forgotten. She asked me how I was going to do both things. I explained my logic … and got rescued once again when she reminded me of the new meeting schedule. I found a substitute to teach my class and stopped doing the lesson preparation.

Later that day, I saw the postman drive by without stopping to put mail in our mailbox. That is rather unusual since we always get mail (usually junk mail or bills). I told Nina that we didn’t have any mail and she was surprised. When I went out to do some errands, for some reason I stopped at the mailbox and it was full of mail! I don’t know when it came. The postal vehicle I saw must not have been our postwoman!

We have the Dish Network satellite system here … four satellite boxes feeding four TV’s (to be watched by two people … and we actually have six TVs in the house). One of the satellite boxes is a DVR (Digital Video Recorder). Nina records a lot of stuff on the DVR. The software on the DVR was recently updated, however, and it works differently. Nina had set it up to record Monk and the new software took that to mean to record every Monk episode that came on, including the myriad of reruns and repeats. I decided to DVR a new series that starts tonight The Sarah Conner Chronicles. That way I can check it out on my schedule and decide whether or not I’ll watch future episodes. In order to do that, I had to override a Monk that was being recorded at the same time. When I explained this to Nina, she said that I needed to get my own DVR … it would be a problem if I started recording stuff on her system! We had a good laugh.

But, it brings to mind an interesting point. When we only had a VCR, if something was to be recorded, I always had to set it up. It was simply a complicated procedure that Nina didn’t want to have to learn. And it was a fairly complicated process (I wonder what the VCR would have been like if Apple had designed it?). The DVR, however, is not complicated. Nina has no problem setting something up to be recorded, has claimed the machine as her own, and the hundred hours of video she can record can be easily consumed. Maybe I do need my own DVR!