Monday, February 26, 2007

good and bad

for those of you who know us well, you may know that chris and i have not had television since 2002 when we moved to nj. to be clear, we've had a TV, but have not had cable nor any reception. and we do not particularly care to have it so we never bought rabbit ears or anything. we keep the tv unplugged until we want to watch a movie and then roll it over to the couch.

so anyways, last night chris was going to the laundromat and i decided to go too so i could watch the oscars. (i know, i know. it's not really like me to want to watch the oscars. but i found myself wanting to see it this year). we got 1/2 way through the show by the time our landry was done.i wanted to watch the rest so i decided to try and see if we could get some reception at home. for the first time since moving to our apartment this past may, i plugged the cable outlet into the tv. and what do ya know? we've got tv. a lot of tv. apparently we have some sort of free tv cable service (whether intentionally free or not, i do not know) along with our cable internet.

i still really don't want to watch tv. and we still plan to leave the television unplugged. but now i guess we can't say we don't have tv. we'll have to say something along the lines of "we choose not to watch it," which i guess is more accurate anyway.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

But there are some really really good entertaining thought provoking educational life affirming shows that you could watch now, right??

Paul Snatchko said...

I'm in the rabbit ears club myself. It's actually kind of good -- less TV overall and I watch a lot more PBS than I ever did when I had cable.

Waldie said...

the answer is technically "yes," we could watch some of those "really really good entertaining thought provoking educational life affirming shows." but will we watch them? most likely not.