Friday, February 03, 2006

XX Winter Olympics Wreaks Havoc

I love the Winter Olympics and as much as I'm looking forward to the Opening Ceremony next Friday, I'm also filled with a little bit of dread. So far this TV season, we've done an excellent job of keeping current with most of the TV shows that we TiVo. We've even managed to watch the six episodes each of The West Wing, Las Vegas, and Numb3rs that we taped before switching them over to TiVo. Here's a list of shows we currently TiVo and the number of episodes we have pending in our "Now Playing" List:

The West Wing (0)
Desperate Housewives (14)
Grey's Anatomy (0)
Surface (1)
Las Vegas (0)
24 (0)
The Bachelor: Paris (0)
Medium (13)
Invasion (0)
Love Monkey (0)
Bones (1)
Alias (0)
Lost (0)
Survivor (0)
Numb3rs (8)
Close to Home (0)
American Idol (0)

As you can see, we have 37 hours waiting in the queue, ready to watch. We've been slowly working our way through the backlog. But now with the start of the Winter Olympics only a week away, we are in danger of becoming buried alive by programming. Our TiVo has the capacity of storing 140 hours of programming at its lowest quality setting, called "Basic." The quality at that setting pretty much makes the show unwatchable, so we've set the quality to "High", which is the second to the highest. This means we only get around 64 hours of storage capacity. Doing the math, we've already filled over half of the hard drive and adding huge blocks of Olympic coverage is going to eat up the rest of the space very quickly. Add to that any of our regular programming on networks trying to compete with the Olympics and it's a recipe for disaster. It will take us weeks to recover.

The only sensible solution is to quit my job so that I can watch TV full time. Are there any job openings out there for full-time TV watchers? If so, please keep me in mind. I have years of experience.

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