Thursday, July 23, 2009

It was bound to happen

Well, I caught some nasty cold/virus. Not fun. I had to stay home 2 days (including today) this week and am a little bored. No TV and no ability to download movies/TV episodes. A word of advice for all the IETA folks that are heading out in August. Take videos with you or somehow download stuff on your computer before you leave the US. I thought I would use netflix, hulu, itunes, etc. and no luck. They all now block users outside of the US from dowloading from their sites. I don't know how they can tell you are in another country, but trust me, they can. I tried to dowload stuff after they gave me the warnings and they were able to detect that I was not in the US. I thought I would have some luck with itunes, but it looks like it is going to take 10 hours to dowload one movie.

I am still headed up to Tofo beach tomorrow. We are flying to Inhambane. The plan WAS to go diving, but if I am able to do anything by Saturday, it will have to be just snorkeling. I don't think it would be a good idea to dive when my lungs are as congested as they are. I don't see myself getting better that quickly either.

It is amazing how the common cold can knock you on your butt. All I want to do is sleep.

2 comments:

  1. I do believe your IP address tells them. :-) I'd mail you something but with the rate things are getting there, not sure it would make it to you before you head back home. :-)

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  2. Sheila-

    Glad you are feeling better now. I'm sure the weekend at the beach didn't hurt although the z-max is probably the primary reason. After reading your post, I took your advice and I ran home and downloaded the Slingbox software to my Mac. Now, I can watch anything that's on Comcast Digital Cable in Washington DC while in Kigali as long as I have an internet connection. Feel free to swing by if you want to catch up on Project Runway or anything else : )

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