Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Fasting From Television

According to Australian researchers, an hour of T.V. takes 22 minutes off your life.

I'm sure that they mean it takes an additional 22 minutes off your life beyond the hour you just spent watching... otherwise T.V. has become some miraculous time-warp machine.

With that said, we are scaling back on our T.V. watching.

It was already a winning strategy. We signed up for NetFlix so have some shows available if we need them. But $8 a month is way more cost effective than $50 for cable.

Less T.V. time means more blogging, coaching, tutoring, guitar playing and other brain-activating habits.

So far I've been "fasting" from T.V. for about five weeks, with no ill side effects beside the occasional inability to comment on a sports play (most of the big ones are easily available online though, so it is just that - occasional).

We may be ready to pull the plug!

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