Defenestrating Thoughts from the Bivouac

Like I said yesterday, I spent most of last week in the Bay Area on business. And I discovered a another potential downside with travelling: I have a backlog of TV to watch on my Tivo (really, I have a Windows Media Center PC, but no one outside of Microsoft knows what that is, so I call it a Tivo).

Even though it’s really just 5 or 6 hours of missed TV, it feels like a lot more and it gets to be more of a chore than a pleasure. I really don’t want to sit and watch all of it. While I don’t want be confused by next week’s shows, it’s not worth wasting the time sitting on the couch watching it.

So I discovered a great way to deal with the problem: watch the shows as fast as possible. So if the show is Prison Break, I just skip over the subplots that bore me. Or if it’s Beauty and the Greek, you can just skip over all the unnecessary pauses used to heighten the dramatic effect and repetitive parts. I already fast forwarded a little bit. But a few nights ago, I did it really aggressively and must have covered almost 5 hours of TV in about an hour. And I think I got the same value (which says something about the quality of those shows).

I’ll probably do this as much as possible from now. :-)