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So this week I finally did what I probably should've done a month or two ago: I cancelled my cable tv. While it was mainly a financial decision, it also came down to the fact that I just didn't need it anymore. I have a lot of other things I could be doing (including watching the many, many DVDs that I own), and my work schedule means that whenever I was actually watching TV it was usually just for background noise anyway. It's still a little weird not having it there, but I have to say, I haven't really missed it so far.

Finally got my day with

andrealyn today (rescheduled after the heat debacle of last weekend) in which we watched the second half of Band of Brothers and ate good food, which is always lovely. I have, however, now had a headache for over five hours. I thought it was caffeine withdrawal at first; now I don't know what to think. Maybe there's just something in the air, because I've been coughing and sneezing an awful lot today too.

So the heat finally has been fixed, hopefully for good this time. It's perfectly pleasantly warm in here, though I still find I want to put the space heater on sometimes (like right now sometimes) because I like to be really warm and cozy. Especially when I'm settling in to get a good couple of hours of writing in, which hopefully is what I'm doing right now. I have to get up for a doctor's appointment tomorrow, but that still leaves me a good chunk of time tonight to get things done.

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Woo, you finished BoB!

I've been without cable/satellite at various times in my life, and I can't say that I've ever really missed it. I miss it even less now that I have the internet to provide me with shows I might actually watch.

Yeah, and I already have to download just about everything I want to watch anyway, so other than the fact that I love the Discovery Channel and Food Network, it just didn't make a lot of sense to keep it.

I canceled cable about a year ago, and we haven't missed it one bit. :)

I think I might end up missing, like, shows on ancient history and stuff, but that's about it. And I can always read a book.

I've only had intermittent access to a television the past six years or so, and this past winter holiday I probably watched more over the course of two weeks than I had the whole year before. The verdict? I'm not going to bother getting cable when I get my next place.

It's not that there isn't a lot of good stuff on TV - there is, although being Canadian there's a lot of it I can't get without a specialty channel or waiting a year for the licensing. And it's not all the bad stuff, because there's always been that on TV. For me, it's the stuff in-between - the stuff I'm willing to sit down and lose a whole evening in front of when I could be reading or writing or going out and doing something. So DVDs it is.

I actually watch a lot of television shows, but because I work evenings I've been downloading them for the past four years anyway. And I'd say a good number of the ones I watched wouldn't have been airing here yet anyway. Now without cable all I have is a fuzzy CBC and an even fuzzier Global so I just don't watch at all.

*nods* It's been changing a little since BBC Canada came out, and might continue to do so now that we're getting a Canadian HBO, but most of the time I've got to wait a year for the shows I like best anyhow, so why not wait and rent the DVDs.

That said, I can't wait until TV on the Internet develops further and you can just subscribe to a few shows for a cheap price. I'd totally get in on that.