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The time zone difference between here and the U.S. can pose some interesting challenges. Besides the occasional middle-of-the-night phone call from well meaning friends and family and difficulty doing business over the phone in the U.S., it is near impossible to watch a live NFL game....unless you decide to just give up on sleep. In Okinawa, the noon NFL kick off occurs at.....(everyone take a minute to practice figuring out the time difference)............that's right, 2 AM! This poses a number of problems. 1: I need my beauty sleep. 2. If I record the game to watch it after work, well, that just won't work. There's no way I'm going to make it through an entire day at work without looking up the score, what happened....basically everything that makes the game not worth watching anymore. 3. I work with a bunch of people who would love nothing more than to give away the score and ruin it for me.

Solution: I record the game, which starts at 2 AM, and get up at 5am to watch it. I can FF through commercials, etc. and get the whole thing watched in about 90 minutes before getting ready for work.

Don't worry, I've already taken Super Bowl Monday off.

Ken