As a birthday gift to myself, I turned off the DirecTv at my house. Okay let be back up, there are two facts that link me turning it off and my birthday. The first is that my husband is a huge football fan. If there is a game that he can watch, he will watch it. I don't care if it's 6 year olds at the local park, Australian rules, or his beloved home town NFL team, he has to watch football in the fall.
So when I brought up the idea of no longer paying for television the first question he asked me was "what are we going to do about football?" So I agreed, we would keep paying for TV until after the Super Bowl. My Birthday happens to be in early February. perfect timing.
So we have been a little more than a month with rabbit ears on our TV. So far so good. The kids are spending more time outside, we have even had family joke night where we start telling random jokes to each other.
But here is the kicker. One thing that I thought would happen when I stopped paying for TV was that I would spend more time streaming shows and movies we like from sources like Netflix or network websites. but what I'm finding is that our DSL connection just doesn't have the bandwith to support steaming shows. I notice that the problem is worse in the evenings than it is during the day.
So tonight I was going to stream a TV show before bed, and I can't even get netflix to load all the way on our wii. Now i now that our PS3 does a better job than the wii does, but it's not in the room I'm in, and I'm not willing to go get it.
Sad huh? So I guess I'll practice my knots. Tomorrow I'll post some pictures of what I've been working on.
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