It’s the third month now. And I’m still not going mad. I don’t even mis it. Well, one time only, but that one doesn’t really count. That had more to do with me being lazy …

… anyway I’m talking about TV. I don’t have TV anymore. Well, I do have a TV, but don’t have TV. Do I make sense?

After my television provider/company (whatever they’re called) was raising the monthly fee (again), I saw the loophole to get out. I unsubscribed immediately without having to sit out my contract for the rest of the year.

Why would anyone who has some 20Mb interwebs flowing through some copper wire into his or her home bother with television? Everything that is on television here in the Netherlands is some crap from the States, or some semi-intellectual talk show from the public channels. The former I can see the day after it aired in the States by downloading it from some famous bay taken over by pirates, and the latter I can (legally) stream form the specific website (if I can be bothered).

It is quite a good thing actually. Everything I watch now is on-demand. I follow half a dozen series now. Each airing one episode a week, so at the beginning of the week I have my media player loaded with a weeks worth of brand spanking new shows. One episode a day. No mindless channel-zapping anymore.

I noticed that some kind of TV-behaviour is somehow  manifesting itself now: I started reading more now, but the short attention span of the TV-generation is still in effect. At the moment I’m reading four books in parallel.

… kinda like zapping …