AlexH

Not many posts on my blog lately, first I got sick with the flu (which I’m sure I picked up from someone at the gym), then a week later I caught a cold. Missed 4 days of work over a 2 week period. Ouch. Good thing I had a lot of sick days saved up.

I’ve found an interesting occurence with my MythTV box. When I first put it together, shows were coming in fast and furious and I struggled to keep up with all of them. I felt bad when they expired without me watching them. Especially the movies/special. I was particularly mad when the A&E special on Eisenhower/D-Day got deleted.

Since I was sick, I got caught up on a lot of the shows. I watched Fat Man and Little Boy, Dr. Strangelove, a ton of CSI episodes, and some Law and Order.

And of course I was able to keep up with Conan, Leno, and the Daily Show.

So now I’ve reached an equilibrium with my shows, and the drive space is steady at about 100GB free/133gb total. It seems like the shows being recorded are coming in at a slower rate as well, to I’ll feel less pressure to keep up with the shows.

I would still like to expand the disk space in this machine, probably with a quad bay firewire enclosure, and starting with a single 200GB drive inside. Ideally I’d be able to store every single CSI, Simpsons, Futurama, and Family Guy episode, just in case.