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This is the most boring week of May. You know, the week with no new Lost episode in it.

And so we will refer you to other fun ways to obsess over the fate of the Lostaways. Such as the Television Without Pity recap of last week's show, "There's No Place Like Home."

Tomorrow, be sure to check out The Lost Hour on washingtonpost.com -- you'll be glad you did. Lost fanatics and WashPosties Jen Chaney and Liz Kelly write a weekly dueling analysis of each new episode, and they also tackle readers' questions and theories in a live chat that starts at 1 p.m. (Central).

If you want to get completely geeky, read J. Wood's blog on powells.com, which is both Lost-centric and literary.

And if you missed it, be sure to see Lostpedia.com's exhaustive recap of last week. Lostpedia is the place to research all things Lost -- something fun to do, if you are bored during this interminable bye week.

Just don't forget to tune in on Thursday, May 29, for what ABC is billing as "an all-night Lost event." It starts at 7 p.m. with an encore of the May 15 show, featuring "brand-new footage." Then at 8 p.m., the two-hour finale will wrap up Season 4. Watch an ABC promo here, on YouTube.

How interesting, Bridgette, that you raise the question about Tivo. Yes, ours did it too. We were able to retrieve the missed minutes by keeping the tuner on the same channel and rewinding to the beginning of the next broadcast -- the Channel 4 news. But then another weird Tivo-related event occurred. Right around the time the Tivo cut out, we got a call from DirecTV, our satellite provider. (We have one of the last Tivo high-def DirecTV receivers in existence.) DirecTV was offering a free upgrade to its own high-def DVR, which I said I wasn't crazy about, since my boys love Tivo. And then the guy started throwing out threats -- mild ones, of course, but threats nonetheless.

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We hear terrible tales of TiVos cutting off before David Cook was announced as last night's American Idol winner. Did it happen to you? Coincidence or conspiracy?