What's it all about, Alfie?

My family doesn't watch a lot of TV together, but every time we have an episode of House, M.D. on the DVR to watch, it's time to get everyone together and sit and watch carefully. Everyone tries to pick up the clues, tries to match the BINGO card of House-imsm like "Plasmaferesis" and "it's Lupis", or "get a CAT scan"... it's literally fun for my entire family. And I love every minute of it.

However, last night wasn't the typical House joy-joy as it caused a little problem for the kids. First, we have been having 'issues' with the Comcast DVR box - the fast forwarding would jump minutes and not seconds, just to the end of the recording or to the beginning - seemingly randomly. So Liza called Comcast yesterday and they said that they'd have a technician come out and bring a new DVR box (dual HD tuner). Problem is that all the shows are physically on the DVR, so new box means no shows. This means that the House, M.D. that was taping at 7:00 pm last night on FOX would be gone today when the DVR switch-a-roo happened. No good.

So we decided to watch the episode last night. Yeah... not the first thing you'd see in "Parenting 101"... but these are desperate times, and require desperate measures.

Problem was that after the show at 8:00 pm, two of the kids had homework left to do that they "neglected" to tell us about when they got home and before dinner. So they were planning on sneaking it in after dinner, but then House was far more interesting, and so they put it off.

Procrastination is a type of behavior which is characterized by deferment of actions or tasks to a later time. Psychologists often cite procrastination as a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision.

Thanks Wikipedia... I could have put the pictures of my kids and Liza up there and be just as good. They all get it from her, and she knows it. But, she also got on them for it, and forced them to get their work done quickly so that they still had a reasonable bed time.

So we have to be more careful about replacing DVRs on Tuesday. Prior planning - that's what it's all about.

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