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Having a DVR has been great. We watch the shows we like on our own schedule and don't have to sit through commercials if we don't want to; but I do always go back and watch the new Mac commercials if I see one I don't recognize. When I fall asleep during Heroes because my pain medication makes me drowsy, I can watch it again at my leisure. It also gives us the ability to pick and choose the order in which we watch our backlog of shows and that's what I'm bickering about today. We've been busy recently and are probably a week and a half behind the shows we like. The advantage of this is having the opportunity to watch two episodes of The Office back to back (which really worked to our advantage with the Dwight quitting cliffhanger!), but the disadvantage is that (damn it!) it wasn't until last night that I saw the advertisement for the competition to win a spot as a dead body in a future episode of CSI. I mean… how cool would that be? When we saw the commercial I got pretty excited, but when I realized that they tape in California (the show is based in Las Vegas, of course) I figured that even if I won I would have to pay to fly myself out for the taping. Not the case (see: "7. Prize:"). They are paying to fly the winner and a guest out to L.V. (coach, but hey, its free!), and for 2 nights in a hotel. This, my friends, is one heck of a disadvantage to DVR. Nothing would be cooler than being John Doe #165.