I have an old school Moxi cable box.  When you navigate anywhere it makes clicks and bings and boings.  I have had several of these units over the years because they tend to overheat and stop working.  Prior times when I have had the box I have turned off the bleeps and bloops, but this time I left them on there.  My roommate likes the sounds, but last night I was seriously just about to jump into the set-up menu or jump out the window.

Why?  Well, I got home at about midnight and started poking around trying to find something to watch.  Each inquiry causing a click.  Nothing new on the DVR (which I only set up a few weeks ago) and nothing on to watch.  We get all the movie channels so I looked though those and then the On Demand and I don’t know how it is possible but there was nothing I was in the mood to watch despite literally thousands of choices.

I ended up starting to toss in random DVDs and watched some of Wrath of Khan (until the disk failed), then an episode of West Wing, then I watched the beginning of a TV show when I finally felt like sleep called.

Can this really be true?  I think there are simply too many choices.  Menu after menu.  In restaurants a menu that is too large is usually a sign it is not a good place.  You know the chef has to keep so much product in the back that many ingredients are not fresh or that he simply doesn’t concentrate on signature dishes.  I am not suggesting we have fewer cable channels or anything like that, but how we organize our viewing may need to change.

Maybe if I just hired a guy to pick stuff to watch for me.  He could just sit around and do that.  Maybe a little light chat occasionally.  The hours would be pretty brutal.  Midnight to 2:30am and back to work at 9 or 10 in the morning for a few hours.

Applications go in my in-box.