Happy General Conference!

Today is the first day of General Conference. Part of me feels really lame for saying this, but here goes: this is my first General Conference where I haven't been in Utah or Idaho in over 10 years. In fact, it is the first time since my mission. However, a lot has changed.

On my mission, we got to see exactly zero sessions live. We'd get a videotape about a month after the conference so we could watch one session. Internet feeds were nonexistent at the time.

One thing I loved about conference in Utah was that you could just turn on your own tv (or radio if you were in the car) and hear it doing whatever you wanted to be doing--which often involved either garage work, yard work, or outdoor recreation. However, in Oregon, I'm not so lucky. Sure, it's broadcast on BYUTV, but that's part of digital cable, which we've declined to get. So, for the first time, I tried out the internet feed from lds.org

The results were pretty good. I hooked up my laptop to our plasma and we watched on television. The picture quality was so-so--maybe a little less than SDTV. But, it saved us the $15 a month on upgrade to digital cable. Sound quality was fine.

So anyways, whereever you are, happy conference.