I am careful of my hand, wrist, arm, shoulder, neck placement pretty much all the time. So careful of my lower back too.
I have also mentioned I record everything I watch and then blink thru commercials. Our recorder is set for 30 second blinks. So I am not fast forwarding. I am jumping in 30 second segments.
So I push the jump button, a lot.
And I had sort of noticed the jump button was getting harder and harder to activate.
We ended up with extra remotes, because we only have one tv hooked up to cable now.
As the kids have moved out, we went from 3 (5 of us) to 2 (4 of us) to 1 (3 of us). So we have one tv hooked up to cable and three TV's hooked up to Rokus (which get Amazon and Netflix and PBS and other services).
So I took two old remotes to the cable company and traded them for two new ones. They were free. They did not even look up my account.
World of difference between the old remote and the new one. So, I actually should have done this long ago.
Two remotes is a very handy thing in general. Two that work easily is wonderful.
I did this while oldest was home to program remotes for me. Yes, I am sure I am capable. But so much faster for him to do it.
I have a list going for when he is home for thanksgiving.
Top of that list is an iPhone for me. A whole series of buttons now do not work on my phone. And my love of a keyboard for texting is now being out weighed by Internet access and a camera.
And third on that pro list is the ringer shuts off but can call twice to get thru at night thing. Because 6, 7, 8am is often the middle of the night for me. And 11pm - 1am is sometimes the middle of the night for me. So that feature will be great, IF it has an option for texting that works like the calls.
Oldest is my go to for all things computer related.
