Television? What?
November 18, 2009
So I’m on vacation this week. Nothing exciting… just wonderful. Visiting my parents, being lazy, reading books…
This morning, everyone who lives here at work, I turned on the television.
See, I don’t have a TV at my house. That’ not to say I don’t love television. If a show has me interested enough, I borrow the DVDs once they are released. And I watch The Daily Show every day online, as well as Project Runway as soon as it’s available. But there’s no TV, no cable at my house.
I thought, wow, I can be a couch potato today. I started flipping through the 
channels… ummmm…. what is all this? I thought I’d be sucked in by the Game Show network, but they were just playing endless episodes of Match Game and The Newlywed Game. Blagh… I flipped through 400 channels, then switched off and read my book.
So the question of the day… how much do you really watch, or enjoy, on your cable? How much do you pay?
On a basic search, the Basic cable package (no HBO etc, no crazy extra sports channels, and after an initial 3 month deal): $67.44
What could I get for that?
BENNY & SHRIMP ($14)
THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL SOCIETY ($14)
SOMETHING MISSING ($14)
ICELANDER ($13)
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO ($7.99)
Total = $59.99 (I’m claiming vacation to not calculate the tax.)
Worth it?
Hell, yeah.
