Day 40

Last night ended badly.  Not ‘death-in-the-family’ bad, or even ‘sliced-my-finger-with-a-knife-while-chopping-potatoes’ bad.  But bad enough.

As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve found a website where I can watch the latest episodes of all my favourite shows.  You might wonder why I would even need to do this, since I brought hundreds of hours of TV with me on my PVR.  The truth is I left halfway through the current season of shows like 30 Rock, Cougar Town and my absolute favourite – The Big Bang Theory and I’ve missed them.

Knowing I can continue to watch these shows has been great.  I haven’t watched them all that much, maybe one or two episodes a week at random times.  Well last night I watched an episode of Cougar Town, then Community and the latest two episodes of The Big Bang Theory.  It was halfway through the final Big Bang episode that it happened:

"You have watched 72 minutes of video today. Please wait 54 minutes or click here to enjoy unlimited use of…"

Like I said, not the end of the world but annoying since it was 10.30pm and I was going to go to sleep after finishing this episode.  The ‘please click here’ was basically asking you to register for a paid account to continue watching!  Pay?  Not likely.  Had to go to sleep never knowing what the lads ended up doing with the Lord of the Rings ring they’d found…

Only Jens and I in the SSC office today – Niklas was travelling and Jan was working from home.  Actually had a pretty full day of work – a few phone conferences and more work with Guido and Kjell on the Netherlands AD management setup for Volvo IT.  Should be all finished by the end of the week. 

Lunch was a big meatball with some kind of cheese bits inside and, of course, potatoes, gravy and lingonberry jam.  As far as canteen meatball dishes go this one was pretty good.  Had my left over goulash for dinner and yes, I finally got to see the end of Big Bang Theory.  Hooray!