First, an Explanation

So my wife and I are at home one afternoon when we get a call from Nielsen. We've been selected to be a Nielsen family. They inform us that they'll be calling back soon to talk to us more about it. Great, my wife and I think. This'll be fun.

Nielsen calls us back, and they ask me about our setup. I should explain that I've hooked together an Xbox, a PlayStation 2, a GameCube, a DVR, and a DVD recorder. The lady I'm talking to clearly sounds concerned when I mention the recorder. I can already tell by the sound of her voice that this probably isn't going to work out. She says they'll need to send an engineer out to our house to see what's what.

The engineer shows up at our house while we're eating lunch, walks into our TV room, takes one look at the DVD recorder, and tells us that it's not possible. He explains that the engineers at Nielsen are still trying to figure out what to do about DVD recorders. So he has to call in and tell them that we are a no-go. When the office asks him why they can't use us, he tells them that we're "Technically Difficult." My wife and I both had a good laugh at that, and my mother-in-law said that she had known that about my wife for years.

Somehow that seemed a fitting description of this blog. It will be technically difficult to catagorize it or me. I hope you find something of interest here.