Somehow I picked up a flu, and it’s had me out of work for two days.

I actually managed to make it in yesterday, and lasted about an hour before going to my boss and letting him know I was heading home.

Then I slept for 7 hours straight, got up, went to my friend’s send-off, came home, slept, felt cruddy again this morning, called in, slept a couple of hours and got up.

When I’m sick I tend to try things I really shouldn’t, but that seem like such a good idea. Today’s bright idea was, well, I have this EyeTV thing hooked up to our Mac mini, and that’s an ATSC tuner, and I have this old powered antenna sitting around that’s not really an ATSC antenna but what the hell.

After a little fiddling, I managed to get 19 digital broadcast channels. Nobody is more surprised than me. There’s still some dropout issues, to be sure, and a better antenna might help with those, but I’ve set the Mac to try to record a couple of programs off-air and on Saturday I’ll get to see what Legion of Super-Heroes looks like.

At this point, I’m wondering why – between the stuff I can get off digital broadcast, the programs I buy from iTunes and the rapidly increasing number of TV-on-DVD box sets – why I’m even getting Cable TV and contemplating telling Comcast to stuff everything but our internet service. 🙂