Here’s what I got for Christmas
As usual, I cleaned up at Christmas. Truth is, I clean up on most things in life. I’ve got to be the luckiest bloke in the world, with the family I’ve got, the friends I’ve got, the co-workers I’ve got, the job I’ve got.
Anyway, I received two gifts that will help immensely on the work side.
1. I’m typing this blog sitting in my new desk chair. For the past six months, my desk chair has been broken. I’d taken to working in the living room, at the coffee table, which wasn’t conducive to good organization, so I went back to my office and sat in the broken chair until two weeks ago, when I literally tipped over sideways, in slow motion, still in the chair. So I moved in an old wooden chair, with a Yankee seat cushion my nephew brought me from the Stadium earlier this year.
But my daughter and son-in-law gave me a lovely new desk chair, cushioned on bottom and back, so that I’m completely comfortable as I sit typing this at 3:30 a.m., unable to sleep because of a bad cold. I will use this chair literally thousands of hours a year.
2. From my wife, I got a DVR for my bedroom television.
DVR has changed my television viewing and my schedule in important ways. I no longer have to juggle my schedule around games I need to watch but not necessarily immediately.
The Thunder, for example. I try not to miss a Thunder game on television, if I’m not at the Ford Center. But there are 82 regular-season games. So I tape most games and watch them late night. Now I can watch the Late Show with Kevin Durant from Lady Americana mattress instead of my Mathis Brothers couch.
Same with college basketball. Once Big 12 play starts, there are so many important games, it’s difficult to catch them all. DVR allows me to stay up to date. Last year, either the OU or OSU men started at 2 p.m. one Saturday and the other started at 2:30 p.m. Both road games, so I wasn’t there, and both televised.
I hate watching taped games if I know the final score. So I taped both games, watched the 2 p.m. game for 30 minutes, then began flipping back and forth and was able to watch both games in their entirety without getting updates that would ruin the drama.
I know, sounds kooky. But that’s what DVR — does that stand for digital video recorder? — allows me to do.
So I’m set. I hope everyone had as good a Christmas as I did.
Berry Tramel can be heard Monday through Friday from 4:40-5:20 p.m. on The Sports Animal radio network, including AM-640 and FM-98.1. You can e-mail him here and follow him on Twitter @BerryTramel.
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