What I watch
I’m a big TiVo fan. I switched from cable to DirecTV because that satellite company had a pre-existing relationship with TiVo. Well, at the time I switched, DirecTV was implementing their own (inferior) dvr. I stuck through the contract but switched back to cable after a year and got a new dual-tuner TiVo box.
All this to say that I record everything I watch and rarely turn on live television except as background noise.
Ok. At this point in the summer, there’s not much on that I watch. I am catching up on episodes of Scrubs, a show I only recently started watching. I watch Monk, Dead Zone, Psych, Eureka, and I’ve recorded, but haven’t watched, Burn Notice.
Fall is always a tricky time for me. There are many new shows and I have to decide which, if any, of them to watch. And I got a bit burned this last Spring. A new show debuted on Fox; Drive. So I started watching and thought the show was pretty good. Then the series was cancelled after like 3 episodes. Arrgh! Why did I bother? So I’ve decided to record new shows that I’m interested in and only watch them if the series is going to last for at least the season.
So, more on tv in the fall when I really have to start organizing my viewing schedule.
In the meantime, I’ll talk about how I spend almost all my time at home; MMORPGs.
Sean, in a nutshell
So let’s start by sharing some things about me.
My name is Sean. I live in Modesto, CA. I work at Modesto Junior College in the Office of Instruction. I am 37 years old at the time of this posting and I think I’m starting to feel my age. I have an Associate’s Degree in Music and hope to complete a BA in History before the turn of the next century.
My Roman Catholic faith is very important to me and I play guitar and sing for church every weekend and have done so (off and on) for almost 20 years.
I have a dog named Chloe who is way smarter than me. I wish I were inclined to be more active, if only for her sake.
Instead, my time is mostly spent playing on the computer and watching television. I play World of Warcraft and Lord of the Rings: Online. In a future post, I will talk about the shows I record every week.
Why even start?
So I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts lately and watching several video podcasts. I’ve really enjoyed one in particular. That’s the Women of Warcraft video podcast. The host, Molly, is delightfully quirky and playful and I just love her personality. I think it’s a lot like mine so of course I’m drawn to it. She’s cute too.
Anyway, she has, over the course of several episodes, mentioned a few web services like Twitter and Lijit. So I signed up on both of those and it made me think that I should have a blog. Why not? I have something to say. I’m interesting, damn it!
So here I go.
But, reality check. Let’s be honest. I’m not much into writing and my interest and enthusiasm for things tends to wane over time. So who knows how often or how long I will try to do this.
But today, I’m into it.
What will be incredibly compelling and endlessly facinating is if someone actually reads what I post. If you are reading this, for the love of God, let me know. A simple, “Read your blog” email will floor me.
*Next time: A bit about who I am.
