O DVD Player, you are so very mighty...

A few months ago I bought us a combo DVD-VCR player. Our VCR had broken so we bought the new combo unit and gave away our stand-alone DVD player to a friend. It was well rated in Consumer Reports. It records DVDs. It was all very exciting.

It turns out that our DVD-VCR combo is actually a capricious and angry deity of some sort. Sometimes it accepts our DVD offering and allows us to view a movie. Many times, though, the deity is displeased and yea verily, it proclaims that we have made an ERROR. We try to atone for our ERROR, to mollify the mysterious DVD god of the fearsome, glowing blue eye. This seems to involve turning it on and off, unplugging it, making libations and offerings, and saying magical incantations. We've never had a moody deity in our electronic appliances before, so we don't have it totally figured out yet.

Ooh! It has accepted our burned offering and lo, Enrico's sacred DVD dance has been pleasing unto its sight. We can watch Lord of the Rings now. Gotta go!