Remote Controls

I have digital cable at home, which requires the use of a cable box.  One of the joys of the cable box, as provided by Shaw, is the lack of local control.

Yup, that’s right.  If we lose the remote, there’s no way to change the channel.

On Wednesday, I will have a one-year-old son.  His current favorite game is hide-and-seek.  But he doesn’t hide himself.  He hides other things.  Toys.  Soothers.  Spoons.  Phones.  Remote controls.

The toys we can deal without.  Soothers we’re trying to get him out of anyway.  Spoons we have a-plenty.

The phones have a pager on them.  I press a button on the base, and the phone beeps loudly.  Why isn’t there such a feature on the remote?  Instead, I’m stuck searching for a remote control while Treehouse or YTV is running.