I would prefer not to be here at work today, but instead to be at a location other than that which I am presently located. In addition, I would like to have a large meal consisting of moist pancakes covered in warm maple syrup and bacon strips hand-grilled by a band of travelling gypsies.

We decided to buy a TiVo box over the weekend. Why did I just write it like that, with their silly trademarked upper case TV letters and lowercase all other letters? Because I am television's bitch, that's why.

Anyways, it won't arrive until this weekend or something, but damn, this is weird, spending money on a device to watch television. However, it's more of a means for us to evade advertising than anything else. See, I watched very little television for several years when I lived in Santa Cruz, and none at all for a couple of years afterwards. It wasn't until after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans that Mara and I realized that having cable is an almost neccessary vector for getting prompt information about current events. So we signed up for cable. And while we've been thankful for the new avenue of information available to us, rediscovering television commercials has been akin to getting kerosene dumped on your head and set aflame while trying to watch a show. Ugh, advertising.

So in the hopes of abolishing television commercials forever, we bought their damned service. Suckers.