Sorry about that. I just needed to hijack the blog title for a moment to finally get that nugget of wisdom into search engine results. As I’ve stated many times, we are cord cutters who live and die by our Roku.

The missus spent several hours last night learning how to optimize the search result rankings of her company website while I sat next to her and spent an equal number of hours trying to get TorrenTV to work on our Roku.

TorrenTV is a (supposedly) simple app that allows one to “sling” a downloading bittorrent from the Interwebs to the Roku so one can watch it on Da Beeg TeeVee instead of on a laptop.  TorrenTV is simple alright, the way a concrete paving block is simple. Both a concrete paver and TorrenTV have the equivalent chance of slinging content to my Roku: Zero.

Normally I can google up a solution. You’re never the first one to have a problem, right? Nope. Nothing but dead ends and other people in the same boat that I am who gave up.

If you found your way here through a troubleshooting search for a solution to your TorrenTV meets Roku issue, I feel bad for you, Son. I got 99 problems and TorrenTV on my Roku is currently seven of those. [spits on ground] TorrenTV, you are dead to me. Dead! [spits on ground again]

Work has been really weird. There’s another theme I’ve beaten to death. I don’t know why, but when my employment situation is weird, I don’t want to blog. Armondo the Corporate Hatchet Man was back crawling around our outpost last week. I’ve been laying low.

I’ve also been cranking on a short story that’s probably going nowhere. I don’t want to say much about it. It’s merely an embryo trying to attach to a rocky womb wall at this point. I’m not sure if my extended work on the new story means that I’ve officially thrown in the towel on my incomplete 70,000 word novel. What is the protocol on this?  I know my experimental novel is too far out of mainstream fiction to pitch to agents. I know this novel is going nowhere. Do I really burn two months’ worth of free time to finish drilling a well I know is just going to take a dry cap the second I walk away?

Also, I’m approaching the point where I have to admit that my agent is not going to make any real effort to represent the novel she signed. We’re at nine months and getting any kind of communication out of the woman takes a Congressional subpoena. I’ve tried to be patient, but really I’m just a sap. Not happy about that at all. Definitely time to emotionally divest from the farce. It’s tough, though. I’m not sure if I have a third [agent] marriage in me after two emotionally abusive turns with duds.

For the life of me, I can’t understand why she’d sign me if she really had no ambition to make an effort to represent me. Kind of like TorrenTV: Why would they say it works with Roku when they know it doesn’t?