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OH NO.

HE DID NOT.

I know that occasionally there may have been stories told on this journal which stretch credulity, but I swear to you that this one is true.

I just woke up to the squeal of my front-door buzzer being pressed, and decided it HAD to be some drunken prankster or a bird or a raccoon or something. Then it was pressed like EIGHT MORE TIMES, and I got up and looked out my window.

"Dude," I said, when I pressed the talk button, "It's four-thirty in the morning. What's wrong with you?"

R's voice, tinny and distant, drifted up. "I locked myself out. Can I borrow your keys?"

I buzzed him in and went to put some trousers on and find the set of keys I have to his place. What else could I do? He'd stepped out on the back porch to smoke and the door had closed behind him with great finality. Apparently Bland is a heavy sleeper who didn't wake up when R threw gravel at his window, unlike me.

HEY LOOK, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME. I was born at some ungodly hour of the morning, I'm so glad the universe conspired to be certain I was awake at the same ungodly hour, to remember it.

On the other hand, he explained how he also stepped out without a belt on his trousers, and then proceeded to show me how a beltless, shoeless man walks down the street, which did pretty much put me on the floor with laughter.

My life is never boring, you guys.

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I am awake!

But I typed that first as "I am wawake" and then "awwke" so I'm not very awake.

It's a lovely day out, and I will be spending it inside, by choice. :D I've got a marathon playlist set up that oscillates between QI, Torchwood, and Black Books for a soundtrack while I set up the TV. And maybe try running the Roomba, though now that I've seen it go I find it faintly terrifying. :D

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I'm just talking this out.

There are three components at this stage in the game (I'm going to ignore the Wii for now). The antenna, the DVD player/recorder, and the TV.

In an ideal world, the antenna would feed directly into the DVD recorder, which would feed into the television. That way, the DVD recorder would act as tv-channel-tuner, and record whatever was coming through the antenna. The TV would just visually represent what I was looking at on the DVD recorder, including DVDs if I wanted to play them.

HOWEVER, the DVD recorder apparently doesn't recognise digital signals coming from the Digital TV Antenna. Fair enough, it's almost three years old.

So, I have to feed the antenna directly into the TV. Which I've done, and basically the TV channels I get are pretty identical to what I was getting with an analog antenna and TV.

My options from this point get a little hazy.

I can feed the DVD recorder into the TV. This will allow me to play DVDs on the TV, and also allow me to see what I'm recording if I feed the computer into the DVD recorder. On the other hand, the TV has a built-in DVD player, and if I want to see what I'm recording I can also look at it on my computer.

OR, I can feed the TV into the DVD recorder. This will allow me to record DVDs from live TV or from the DVDs playing on the TV's DVD player. On the other hand, there's not much live that I want to record, and I'm not in the business of duplicating DVDs.

This is all assuming I can get either of these options to actually WORK.

*rolls up sleeves*

If Toshiko Sato can do it, I can do it!

(This is functionally untrue, but it sounds good.)

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Okay, so, I have no idea what will happen if I cross the proton beams, but everything's plugged in.

The TV and antenna work. I can view, at least, what's going on with the DVD Recorder when I change input modes on the TV; conveniently enough, the Recorder has jacks for the Wii, which the TV doesn't, so I go to the Recorder input mode if I want to play Wii, too. And I can plug the laptop into the front of the DVD Recorder with the S-video cable, so that I can dub from laptop to DVD. Or I can plug the laptop into the TV and enhance my screen size (kinky). And the Wii is interfacing well with my wireless modem.

If I turn everything on at once, maybe it'll be like VR.5 and I will actually invent virtual reality. I could try to dub something from YouTube to DVD and suddenly find myself in YouTube.

Or, the flat will be able to travel in time and space (which I am pretty sure it can do if I can just find the right levers).

*pause*

We're gonna need a bigger boat power strip.