No More Still Life

This week we cut off the cable. No more TV in our house once again. It's going to take a bit of getting used to. It's enjoyable, sure, but it's also too much of a soporific. It's too easy to ignore real life in favour of the ongoing eye candy produced by the networks. So we're back to once a week movie nights, game nights, and we've already dragged out the old N64. Oh, Tetrisphere, how I adore you.

It is part of the general overhaul that we've been working on all along. We're already both internet fanatics, and that's enough. Soon enough it will all be internet based anyhow, so we're really just getting prepared.

It's kind of odd to me, because we never had TV at home as a child, because it was considered to worldly, and too evil. Spouse One and I have gone without TV before, and the last three years are really the only time we've ever had cable consistently. It's kind of sad, to spend one's time caring about these stupid, badly written characters and predictable plots.

I'm excited about spending more time listening to the radio, playing music, and just generally interacting with each other, and other people.

We're also starting a new backyard project. Should make for a much more entertaining winter, and for much more entertaining next summer. I'm looking forward to it.