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Entry 1717

I have a remote control!!!

I've never cared to get a big TV. Not that my room would have room for it anyway. Anyway, for the longest time I had this really really old 13 inch TV. It had two dials on it for the channels. Then when my little brother got a nice 25 inch TV for his birthday when (probably when) he was 12 (he's 16 1/2 now) he gave me his 13 inch TV.

So, you say, still 13 inches, what's the big deal? Well, this one was newer, at least, so I traded up. Thing is, I thought he had told me his remote control was broken... and not just that the remote control was broken, but that the input on the TV for the remote control was broken.

So, half a decade later, I decide to check for myself (I wish I remembered what spurred the thought on). My brother doesn't have a universal remote, so I ran to the kitchen to get the remote for that TV.

I found a page that has codes for RCA Universal Remote Controls, followed the instructions for entering in the code, and after pushing the On/Off button 30 or so times as part of the programming process, my TV turned off!!! Wow!

I was in disbelief, so I pushed the on button again to see if it would turn on. It did! But then when I tried turning it off again it didn't work. So I was confused for a second, until I realized that by turning it on, I had made the remote cycle through its next code, so it wasn't set for my TV anymore! Curses!.

So I repeated the entire programming process, and now I have a remote!!! I'm 22 years old and I've never had a remote for my TV before. Even more frustrating (in a way), I've had a remote for my VCR, so I could change the channels and everything, but I could never turn the TV on or off. All I needed was a remote with one big button on it labeled ON/OFF, but I didn't have it.

Damned if I'm giving the kitchen remote back!!

Later...
Groowawoorrarrrrrr!!! (Gorilla roar). I have so much power right now! I realized that I can program the remote for my VCR too, and it worked after a few tries!!!

Check it out. My VCR had this dumb remote with a flip up thing that broke off a long time ago. Unfortunately, some useful controls were on the flip up thing, such as the channel up and channel down buttons. So if I wanted to scroll through the network channels, I'd have to hit 0+2, 0+4, 0+5, 0+7, etc. And when you have like 75 channels you want to go through, it can be a pain, right? I did it for years... I don't have to do it any more. I have channel up/channel down buttons!! Whoo I'm excited.

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