This evening (Sunday) I'm stuck at home while Steve and Mary are attending what promised to be a very nice choral concert at an old church over on the beach side of Chennai. The reason for my being left behind will be revealed in a later blog. To console myself, and pass the evening pleasantly, I thought I'd spend part of it watching one of Alain's DVDs, since he graciously offered us full use of them. I found one that I hadn't seen, but think I saw good reviews of, and settled in to be entertained.
Alas, the dreaded region code, which I had never even heard of until last week. Someone has cleverly come up with (and implemented) a plan to divide the world into seven regions and code each DVD that is created with one of those regions. A laptop is set up to play DVDs from only one region; those from other regions it will refuse to play. It's not that it can't play them, because there is an option to just change the region code in the laptop and let it play away. However, it can be changed just four times--well the Internet says five times, but mine says I have four left and I know I've never changed it--and then is stuck forever in that last region. Such a dilemma. Four precious changes! Do I use one on this evening's entertainment? I almost did. Why not change it now and then back to the US code in April? Certainly living in a different region for six months is a good reason to change it. Only one thing has held me back: I brought an exercise video with me, and I'm sure I'm going to start using it one of these mornings--probably even this week! (Go ahead and laugh.) I'm thinking I'd better leave my laptop set on the US region code and watch any movies over here on Steve or Alain's laptops.
So, at least in planning, I place fitness over entertainment. What shall I do this evening then? (Exercise might seem like the natural choice, but again, I'll let you know in a later blog why it isn't.) I know, I'm quite behind in my blogging. Last week contained a number of "firsts," so maybe I'd better get started telling you about them.
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