the comforts of home...

There was another important aspect of living in Spain I had to learn to circumvent, bring the comforts of home here. What I mean by this is that with the age of the Internet, who is to stop me from looking at my favorite television shows or listen to my favorite radio stations. Well the answer is Copyright lawyers.


You see here in Spain, there is a block on content from the US to Spain. Why? Well Spain is not so worried about copyright laws as they are about the war on terror (Madrid train bombing), rebuilding from having a dictatorship up until 1975 (my cousin Ray-Ray is still recovering from some bad weed from 1975) and some internal conflicts with some ethnic groups wanting to be separated from mother Spain (Basque, Catalans, etc.).


So my splash of cold water awakened me to this travesty when I thought I would go to abc.com to check out the newest shows for the fall season...well, specifically, they said to me "since your busted a*s is in Spain, you get´s no play, shorty!" I was taken aback. I mean I have worked in computers and the Internet for years and never thought they could do such a thing to such a frequent flyer! So I tried nbc.com. i like NBC better anyhow...


Well NBC spanked me like a newborn and waited for me to cry to spank me again! I was deflated and devastated. No reason to even go to CBS.


So the next morning I decide to look for my favorite morning show and see if I can get it streamed to me. Usually I am never up early enough to catch him tarting at 6am and I would work the late morning shift or the too early to comprehend shift and miss his show entirely. So now I can catch him at 12 noon and enjoy him for a full 4 hours. But again, I was dropped short of my dream when the reality of the Internet hit me.

Now don´t get me wrong, I am resourceful. I can find ways around anything. Well most anything. that´s half of the fun of modding things or finding new and resourceful ways of getting around. What did we ever do before computers?

So with much persistence, I can now download every episode of ¨Heroes" (I collected comic books so what did you expect?), "My name is Earl" (love rednecks) and Weeds (no comment). Also, I now get my Steve Harvey at noon and listen into the afternoon and don´t miss a beat 106.5 the beat to be exact).