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I am giving up this year before it happens again.  Every year, Kentucky plays Tennessee in their last regular season game.  And every year, we find some gut wrenching way to lose.  Last year, it was that four overtime nightmare.  I can’t take another one of those, so I am just throwing in the towel now and conceding defeat before we even play them.

YES, Tennessee is lousy this year and very beatable.  YES, their coach has already resigned and is just killing time with no motivation.  YES, we have our best chance ever to finally knock them off after over twenty years of awful defeats.  But tonight we lost to Vandy.  VANDERBILT!  Talk about lousy!  We just let them beat us at home on senior night!  We got called for three penalties for roughing the kicker!  Sheesh!

I am usually the one saying don’t give up.  I always think we can beat Tennessee and really believe it right up until that last heartbreaking play.  Hey, I stayed the whole way through the Arkansas game earlier this season and saw us pull out a great win after everyone else had walked out!  But I can’t do it this year, I just can’t.  I hate the Volunteers.  I can’t stand their prison garb orange colors.  I loathe Tennessee!  But I just don’t have it in me to go through that again.  Boo hoo!

If you have a series 3 TiVo or a TiVo HD, you can get cable cards from your cable company in order to receive all of the tasty, encrypted channels that you pay for.  Of course, this will require that someone, somewhere at your local cable company actually knows how cable cards work or at least how to install and set them up properly.

For all you wannabe cable technicians out there, here’s a little troubleshooting tip.  When someone has problems with their cable card and you hook up a cable DVR and show them that it works, this does not immediately mean that the TiVo is at fault.  Putting a new card in their TiVo and seeing it fail would point to the TiVo , but only if you actually took the right steps to get the new cable card working.

I have yet to meet a cable technician that can look at the cable card diagnostics screen and understand what it means.  But thanks to this document on TiVo ‘s web site, I was able to tell the Insight yayhoos exactly what to do to fix my recent cable card problem.  Among other things, it tells you how to diagnose if the card is communicating with the cable headend and most importantly if the card is properly paired with the slot it is in – pairing seems to be the number one problem with getting a cable card working correctly.

Power to the people!