tvbored

I know many of you out there, write/talk about what you’re currently reading. It’s not that I’m not a reader, but my tastes vary so much that I go months without reading a book for fun. I tend to read a lot of biographies and just historical tomes that aren’t too popular. But my largest “problem” is that I go back and re-read many of the books in my small collection. I just like the stories, so I go back….like watching “Ferris Buhler’s Day Off” for the 20th time.
I’m also getting bored with television, so I spend way too much time on a laptop. I’m trying to get back into reading and using our exercise room as a replacement for television. (I look at a computer for most of the day, so going home to do that is no longer fun.) Hell, I might even get back into video games, I don’t know. But the extent of shows in TV has sunk.

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3 Responses to “tvbored”

  1. netflix

  2. Yeah, you’re right. We go through this cycle of using Netflix, and we’re on our third try. We love it, and love it even more since the distro. warehouse is now 10 minutes away.

  3. We haven’t had television available for more than two years. Here in the sticks there is no cable, broadcast TV is a moot point (the nearest station is more than 80 miles away) and the trees and ridge to the south prevent RCA dishes from functioning unless I was to put it on a 60 foot tower.
    After two years we’ve exhausted the free library movies and DCD’s at $350 a crack are adding up. Even with fast broadband downloading Simpsons and Six Feet Under episodes from P2P networks is time consuming and not all that practical.
    I’m dreading another winter with three kids and no Cartoon Channel — that sixty foot tower is starting to sound like a viable option.