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The used VCR I bought, probably, 8 years ago finally died on Thursday night. It refused to give us back our videos and kept shutting itself off. So I went downstairs to the basement to get another used VCR (mda had retrieved it from one of the local dumps on trash day1), which I use for my exercise routine. That VCR runs downstairs on a little b&w tv that mda picked up somewhere (probably a dump). I've been doing aerobics with it for almost 2 months.
There were 2 reasons why I wanted to get a new-used vcr. First, it turns out that the basement VCR runs ok on a b&w tv, but not too well on color--bands of darker color scrolls up the screen on a constant basis. And, yes, we have a lot of DVDs, but we have enough videos, including mda's new score of the "Cosmos" series, so we do want to keep using it. And secondly, I really do need to exercise downstairs. I'm extremely self-conscious about jumping around and cursing the people (ugh--Billy Blanks) on the videos and sweating and stuff, and I hate making all that noise. Even if I don't make all that noise, I think I do and I worry too much about every little thing I do. Down in the basement, I'm tucked away and on a concrete floor (w/a mat, of course).
And I know myself well enough--give me an inch on exercising, and I'll take a mile. Then I'll stop at the end of that mile, smoke a cigarette, drink a beer, and get a car ride back. I have managed, in the last 2 months, to get up Mon-Fri at 6:30 or 7 am2 and work out (giving myself the weekends off--I've got to look forward to something). So I was afraid that if we hadn't replaced the vcr this weekend, I would just stop exercising.
But I wanted to spend as little as possible on a vcr, so I went to a Goodwill after going to the First Unitarian Society this morning and picked out an RCA for $15.81 (w/tax). It doesn't have a remote control, but the ones there that did were either no-name brands or from 1987 (literally--someone had nicely written the date on the VCR's manual).
Well, it works, it didn't eat the tape I put into it, and the color's nice. Hopefully we'll get our $15.81 out of it.
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There were 2 reasons why I wanted to get a new-used vcr. First, it turns out that the basement VCR runs ok on a b&w tv, but not too well on color--bands of darker color scrolls up the screen on a constant basis. And, yes, we have a lot of DVDs, but we have enough videos, including mda's new score of the "Cosmos" series, so we do want to keep using it. And secondly, I really do need to exercise downstairs. I'm extremely self-conscious about jumping around and cursing the people (ugh--Billy Blanks) on the videos and sweating and stuff, and I hate making all that noise. Even if I don't make all that noise, I think I do and I worry too much about every little thing I do. Down in the basement, I'm tucked away and on a concrete floor (w/a mat, of course).
And I know myself well enough--give me an inch on exercising, and I'll take a mile. Then I'll stop at the end of that mile, smoke a cigarette, drink a beer, and get a car ride back. I have managed, in the last 2 months, to get up Mon-Fri at 6:30 or 7 am2 and work out (giving myself the weekends off--I've got to look forward to something). So I was afraid that if we hadn't replaced the vcr this weekend, I would just stop exercising.
But I wanted to spend as little as possible on a vcr, so I went to a Goodwill after going to the First Unitarian Society this morning and picked out an RCA for $15.81 (w/tax). It doesn't have a remote control, but the ones there that did were either no-name brands or from 1987 (literally--someone had nicely written the date on the VCR's manual).
Well, it works, it didn't eat the tape I put into it, and the color's nice. Hopefully we'll get our $15.81 out of it.
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