Shaking off the monkey
We've bitten the bullet. On Friday we're switching back down to the most basic level of cable service: just the local network affiliates. It's been a long time coming but I'm feeling good about it. I don't watch much tv anyway, but there are a few programs I like to watch that are just on cable channels like BBC America, History Channel, etc. But the utter wretchedness of sitting through the same commercials every ten minutes has become too much to bear. No program is good enough for me to keep putting up with that. Besides, these days everything ends up on DVD (or VHS) at some point, and I can wait. Given the inane drivel that the networks run, this means I'll be practically giving up broadcast televeision altogether.

Congratulations cable companies, your shameless greed has lost you another customer.

Bye bye commercials--I won't miss you.