Can I just time-shift myself?

[c9]

I'm guilted into an employer's-time entry by primary_suspect. Therefore, a rant on television.

Note: I know the answer is get a DVR. So please use your commenting privileges for saying something else.

Last night Prison Break came back. Well actually, it came back a week ago, but I missed it. But I remembered last night. But the details in that show and the fun is seeing the whole season, so instead of watching, I downloaded the episode I missed from last week. Of course now tonight I'll need to download last night's episode.

Sunday night was West Wing. I didn't watch it because I was watching last week's episode. I had missed last week's episode, so I had to download it, but then I forgot to watch it, so I had to watch the old West Wing while the new West Wing was actually on TV. Then I downloaded the new one yesterday. I think. I better check tonight.

Yesterday I was working in our Toronto office, so I took the 100-minute train in. I quickly burned a CD of stuff to watch, thinking I could watch TV on the way to work. Unfortunately, I wasn't paying close enough attention, and I burned two episodes of Arrested Development instead of one West Wing and one Arrested Development.

I downloaded all the episodes of Arrested Development because there are some I haven't seen, and that show also is best served in order and complete.

Tonight I have rehearsal, Thursday I have rehearsal, Saturday I have the Halfway-There-Cast-Party, Sunday I have rehearsal, and by next week I may be further behind on watching new and cancelled TV shows.

I would write an update about work, but it's remarkably similar. Just replace "West Wing" with "Microsoft," and "Arrested Development" with "professional development planning" and you're almost there. :)

Comments

[primary-suspect.livejournal.com]

That is why the next DVD player I get will support DIVX. Many of the torrents are encoded with DIVX anyways so you just throw the files on a CD or DVD as a regular data disc and pop it in your DVD player. It will find an play the files. Very simple, good quality, small file sizes compared to MPEG2.

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

Wasteful in DVDs though, especially if its not something you'd normally archive. I'm happier with my media PC solution. I don't think we've used the DVD player or VCR in six months.

[primary-suspect.livejournal.com]

That is why they invented re-writable discs... ;-) So you just re-use the same one when you are done watching the shows.