An interesting thing is happening at our house... Our cable is broken. It flutters in and out. Fuzzy sometimes and clear others. It pops and makes loud noises just as you're getting interested in a program.
The result of this disruption in our daily programming is time.
Our evenings, no longer burdened by the convenience and laziness of television, are freed up for socializing, conversation, dog-walking, knitting, drawing, reading, soaking in the tub... anything really.
If we take a moment to break down our available evening time - home around 7pm and in bed by 11pm - we have four usable hours. Now include making dinner, feeding and walking the dog, as well as tidying up, and you now have approximately three usable hours. The equivalent of three programs on television or 126 minutes of flashy brain-numbing plot line (or dancing, if you will) and 54 minutes of even more brain-numbing consumer-driven advertising.
We called Rogers to have the cable fixed (we are paying for it, after all). The cable guy came, fixed, and went, yet nothing changed. Television still fuzzy and popping. And our evening quality time still our own.
What will I knit next?
1 comment:
a Na'vi hat for ME!!!!
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