All Systems Go
After a full day of testing my new HTPC + tuner setup, I must say that it works quite well. Each component is part of the system to technically serve a different purpose; the tuner is there so that I can do more than only be able to watch/record one channel at a time, and the HTPC is in the mix so that when I’m on vacation (or otherwise not at my apartment), it can handle recording duties and not require my desktop to be on. There are still more pieces to the overall puzzle I need to fully bring into the mix (transferring the recorded shows onto the WHS for one, but I’d also like to experiment with automatic commercial removal and maybe even converting the files to not take up quite as much room), so I can totally see this being my pet project for a while.
There’s no more snow to keep me from work tomorrow, so it seems that this snowpocalypse truly is over. I have to say, I’m fine with a day or two of weather disruptions, but when it spans effectively an entire week, it can really do more harm than benefit. Contrary to how often it seems like I have nothing to do in a given morning or afternoon, work seems to magically manifest itself by having other people be around to communicate with. Take those same time periods and make everyone work from home, communication grinds to a halt and those “boring” work days actually end up being that way.