I just realized the Tony Awards are on tonight. I saw some fleeting mention of them somewhere on the Internet as I surfed by and, sure enough, tonight's the night. I guess I have too many other things to think about lately to have looked forward to the telecast as I usually do.
Not having left my state this past year (or even the last few years), I have seen none of the nominated shows and I'm still in no mood to get on a plane. Let's see if tonight's telecast makes me think I should. My TiVo is set to welcome it…and by the way, I still have a TiVo. I had one of the first ones and I'll have one of the last ones. My cable provider has changed three or four times in the last decade or two and every time, they try to get me to switch to their proprietary Digital Video Recorder even to the point of (a) telling me they can no longer support my Tivo and/or (b) sending me their DVR against my wishes.
When they've sent me one of theirs — which Spectrum has now done three times — I usually try the thing out, decide it's not as good as what I have and stick with TiVo. (Over twenty years ago, a salesguy for DirecTV told me that he had learned TiVo was going out of business and I had no choice but to switch to their device. I think the guy is now one of Trump's lawyers.)
Anyway, mine still works and it'll be recording the Tonys tonight. It'll be happy to do that since it can't record John Oliver these days.