alaskaflyer
Final Approach
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My timing is off - way off. I picked the same week to return home to finish recuperating from knee surgery, and to kill my television. Yep, kill it.
Not in a particularly violent way, though I have always fantasized off and on about shooting it with my government-issued M4A1 carbine, particularly during the more inane commercials, or while watching Fox News. No, instead I have canceled my Dish Network subscription, moved my DVD player to a old 13 inch TV I have in my bedroom for when I want to watch a movie, and put my 32 inch TV into a closet until I can either sell it or give it away.
Day three. A few pangs of regret, but nothing I couldn't overcome. I blame these emotional relapses on the timing - I can't get out of the house to do many of the things I like doing outdoors. So far discipline has been maintained.
And so...what now?
Not in a particularly violent way, though I have always fantasized off and on about shooting it with my government-issued M4A1 carbine, particularly during the more inane commercials, or while watching Fox News. No, instead I have canceled my Dish Network subscription, moved my DVD player to a old 13 inch TV I have in my bedroom for when I want to watch a movie, and put my 32 inch TV into a closet until I can either sell it or give it away.
Day three. A few pangs of regret, but nothing I couldn't overcome. I blame these emotional relapses on the timing - I can't get out of the house to do many of the things I like doing outdoors. So far discipline has been maintained.
And so...what now?
- Well...I'm going to keep my Netflix subscription, though I may pare it down to a two-at-a-time subscription from three Going cold turkey from any addiction is hard to do...
- A friend turned me on to this a few weeks ago, and so far I am very happy with the discovery: Pandora.com from the Music Genome Project. Do any of you use it? It's at www.pandora.com and is basically your personal radio station - you input an artist or song name that you like, and the site will create a streaming radio station based on attributes of the artist or song using an adobe flash player interface on their website. You can create (I think) an unlimited number of "stations" and can shuffle multiple stations while listening. The sound quality is pretty darn good. Also when you create your user profile it automatically creates a personal website for you similar to a "myspace" page. Here's mine though I haven't done much with it yet. Best of all it is advertising based and so free. Still adding stations as I think of artists. Check out Jack Johnson. Really.
- Other streaming options: npr.org has a 24 hour stream of their national programing, or you can select specific programs to download and listen to, or podcasts...we have an internet webcast "radio" station in Talkeetna at www.wholewheatradio.org that I enjoy listening to, very funky and quirky - kinda like me...
- Online book exchanges. I'm actually soliciting recommendations from anyone for a good one. I've been looking at http://www.thebookcart.com/ and am about to sign up.
- And then there are online discussion boards. Sigh. At least I currently limit mine to a few aviation related ones, and one work-related. Another semi-addiction that I will likely have to nip in the bud too one day. You people kill me
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