Okay, I admit it: I just don't watch much television. I don't know if it does not interest me, or I am too busy, or maybe I just can't figure out how to watch anymore.
When I was growing up, I can remember three or four channels. Things were simple – there is one dial that would get me four channels: NBC, CBS, ABC, and Public Television. Then, there was an independent channel available on the other dial. One dial was VHF and the other UHF. Okay, that is the technical part of the post.
I remember that I had to jiggle wires a lot to get a clear picture, but there were relatively few choices on television. Few choices make it easy to watch.
Fast forward to today, and there are some one million channels with about the same amount of decent programming available. And frankly, I don't have time to dig through the programming to find the good stuff.
Hubbie and I go out to dinner a lot. This is sort of like two restaurants that we enjoy, one having a very limited menu but everything is wonderful and the other having such a huge selection from its menu, but they miss on occasion. They hit, but they miss as well. That's sort of how I see television. And for me, it is easier to just not watch.
Not that this is a revelation. But I was reading in my living room last night, and I just looked around the room – and I wanted to move furniture. Okay, I direct and hubbie moves. But you get the idea. I have not changed our living room in a while, and I noticed that the dormant television is the center of the room. The other furniture is huddled around the television, yet there is no warm glow emitting from the TV.
It isn't that I dislike television – I occasionally travel for work, and in the evenings, I overdose on television. I will watch from 7:00/8:00 pm, and stop watching when I fall asleep in the wee hours of the morning.
When hubbie comes home this evening, I guess he will be moving furniture. But maybe I will wait until after the first weekend of March Madness.
About Leesa
LeesaI started blogging to improve my writing; I really did. Painters don't start with masterpieces – they start on scraps of paper, and even when planning a great work, they do many other drawings in preparation. I think writing is the same. You just don't start and finish a novel by merrily typing into the computer; you experiment. Blogging is sort of like a writer's doodling. So this is my scratch pad of sorts. This is less than scraps of paper actually, just 1s and 0s on your computer screen.
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Notes on this Blog
Some random notes about this blog:
1. Schedule. I started writing this blog in 1995, and over the past few years, I have tried to write every workday. Then in the summer of 2008, I quit writing for a month or so. Now I try writing three times per week. The quality waxes and wanes. Sorry about that.
2. Leesa's Mailbag. I am trying a new weekly/monthly/semi-annual blog entry called "Leesa's Mailbag". Over the last few years, people have emailed me with questions, and I have answered them on an individual basis. Now, I think I will answer them on a blog entry. Perhaps Friday. Not sure I will get enough questions to do this often, but I will try to answer questions. Sort of an Ann Landers with attitude. Just write to the email address below.
3. My Stories. Yeah, I have a few erotic stories here. I know, they are not all that good, but they were fun to write. Don't read them if this offends you (and they represent less than 1% of the content here). These stories have elements of truth and fantasy, some more true than others. Complain about something that is a bit more substantive if you must complain. I have lots of faults.
4. Layout. My layout is clean and simple. You can tell me it is boring, and you would be right. I just don't want pink flowers and weird colors to get in the way of my words. I have customized my drop-down menus under "Quick Links" and "Blog Roll" so I had to use a little HTML.
Finally, there are loads of better bloggers here. If you like what you read, thanks. If you don't, thanks for dropping by (and I mean this). A few people who comment on my work add immensely to the experience.
1. Schedule. I started writing this blog in 1995, and over the past few years, I have tried to write every workday. Then in the summer of 2008, I quit writing for a month or so. Now I try writing three times per week. The quality waxes and wanes. Sorry about that.
2. Leesa's Mailbag. I am trying a new weekly/monthly/semi-annual blog entry called "Leesa's Mailbag". Over the last few years, people have emailed me with questions, and I have answered them on an individual basis. Now, I think I will answer them on a blog entry. Perhaps Friday. Not sure I will get enough questions to do this often, but I will try to answer questions. Sort of an Ann Landers with attitude. Just write to the email address below.
3. My Stories. Yeah, I have a few erotic stories here. I know, they are not all that good, but they were fun to write. Don't read them if this offends you (and they represent less than 1% of the content here). These stories have elements of truth and fantasy, some more true than others. Complain about something that is a bit more substantive if you must complain. I have lots of faults.4. Layout. My layout is clean and simple. You can tell me it is boring, and you would be right. I just don't want pink flowers and weird colors to get in the way of my words. I have customized my drop-down menus under "Quick Links" and "Blog Roll" so I had to use a little HTML.
Finally, there are loads of better bloggers here. If you like what you read, thanks. If you don't, thanks for dropping by (and I mean this). A few people who comment on my work add immensely to the experience.
Counter and Links
So I can keep track of the wonderful people who link to my humble site:
This site has been viewed about this many times (see below). If you divide this number by π (pi), you get the number of times I have entertained people.
This site has been viewed about this many times (see below). If you divide this number by π (pi), you get the number of times I have entertained people.
12 comments:
When there's a menu with too many choices----I get all flustered...
I have satelite TV with over 800 channels, and I don't know what to watch.
It's a huge dilemma. The only time I watch TV is on Sunday nights (The L Word & The Sopranos) and when American Idol is on. That's it.
Feng shui away baby!
Don't let any moving interfere with March Madness....there are priorities yanno!
and....
A post I totally agree with.
Notice how Deb always likes to be on top?...Not that I'm complaining.
*snickers*
I try to limit the amount of tv I watch a week. My husband and I recently limited ourselves to only 5 hours of tv a week, not including 1/2 of news a day and two hours of political news programs on Sunday. I am enjoying the free time by surfing the net and reading books.
The TV in my house is ALWAYS on. Even if we are not watching it, it stays on with very low volume. We use it as background noise. Ha.
~deb: I have fewer channels than I had as a child. Reception sucks because most people have cable/satalite.
mike: I did my brackets.
shannon: If I could find out when Will and Grace was on, I would watch.
mike: with ~deb, I like to be underneath.
myutopia: I don't set limits for me, it just works out that way.
bee: we use music as background noise, but not all of the time. It is hard to read sometimes with music on.
VX: I don't have cable either!
There's a restaurant in this tiny little Catholic village (if you've ever been there, you'd know why I classify it as a Catholic village) but this restaurant has 2 menu options: BBQ chicken and BBQ ribs - that's it. They don't do rib-offs, they don't do other things - except you can go to the bar and order homemade sausage, hot dogs and bologna - to go.
They've got a full bar, but don't you dare order a mixed drink unless the recipe and the name of the drink are one in the same. (Rum and Coke, 7&7, etc.)
Better get there before 5 PM (they open at 4) or you'll be standing in line for at least 2 hours! I swear when this restaurant is open, the population of the town triples.
It's a half hour drive from where I live, and people from here go there all the damn time.
Funny huh?
Oh yeah: I like American Idol too!
I have cable and have had satellite in the past and, with a few exceptions, I still watch the same channels I did as a child, lo those many years ago.
Canned laughter disgusts me. TV is insidiously evil. Turn off the news, America! You'll be a better country for it.
HBO does not count. Nor does the Discovery Channel. TCM is amazing considering those commercial free movies are free!
Ever notice when you go out to eat and there is a tv on, intelligent people will be like deer in headlights? Sad.
Peace
boris: my kind of restaurant. Probably no advertising.
bruce: I understand.
trapped: sometimes the canned laugh track is the only way you can tell when something is suppose to be funny.
Always always always wait until after the first weekend is over to do things like that.
I find myself watching less and less TV these days too. Too much quantity, not nearly enough quality.
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