{"id":2287,"date":"2008-12-14T01:12:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T09:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2008-12-14T13:22:10","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T21:22:10","slug":"killing-the-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2287","title":{"rendered":"Killing the TV."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing good happens after 2AM, right? I just left a holiday party and everyone else is going out dancing. But they&#8217;re all in their 20&#8217;s and I&#8217;m not. I should probably get to sleep earlier than I did last night, but it&#8217;s already getting close to 1:15AM again. One of these days I should try to get a decent amount of sleep.<\/p>\n<p>These holiday parties also mean lots of eating and drinking. I did a lot of work to get into better physical condition and I could blow it all this month. Sure I feel better and I look better but it&#8217;s not really getting me anywhere so why not offset it with some more holiday merriment? <\/p>\n<p>I finally canceled my cable TV service. So much for my primary form of entertainment. I live in a neighborhood that is at the base of the hill where the TV antennas for the city are located, so we can&#8217;t get reception at the house unless we have cable. There&#8217;s a chance that we could get satellite TV, but we&#8217;re on the north side of the hill so we might be out of luck trying to get a satellite signal. In any case, I&#8217;ve been having trouble with the cable lately, mainly with ingress, where I see both the cable TV image and also the image from the local TV station. Basically, it looks like hell. I got tired of it and decided to try to live without TV altogether.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised how little grief I got from Comcast for canceling my service. I keep hearing how they&#8217;ll give you great deals to keep you as a customer but I got bupkis. Which is fine by me, really, until the bowl games start. I may feel kind of odd tomorrow when the football games are going on and I can&#8217;t watch them. Oh, well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing good happens after 2AM, right? I just left a holiday party and everyone else is going out dancing. But they&#8217;re all in their 20&#8217;s and I&#8217;m not. I should probably get to sleep earlier than I did last night, but it&#8217;s already getting close to 1:15AM again. One of these days I should try to get a decent amount of sleep. These holiday parties also mean lots of eating and drinking. I did a lot of work to get into better physical condition and I could blow it all this month. Sure I feel better and I look better but it&#8217;s not really getting me anywhere so why not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2287\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Killing the TV.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}