Been a while

It's been five days since my last post and a lot has happened. Well, one big thing in particular. Watching my tape of the last episode of The West Wing was the last thing my TV allowed me to do before dying.

It had been a long time coming. I mean, the colors were getting...not weird, but extra saturated. There were times I'd turn it on and the colors weren't there at all, but all I had to do was turn it off, wait a few seconds and turn it back on again and they were back. There were other, little things. This all began at least three years ago, so I had hoped for a little while longer, but I've got no complaints--this Zenith was 15 years old! I got my money's worth, for sure.

The problem is, there's no way I can replace it right now. So yesterday, I turned in my cable box to Time Warner and will wait a while until I pay them what I owe and then figure out how much I am willing/able to go into debt for a new HDTV (because at this point, there ain't no point in anything else, even if you can find it for sale). It'll probably be another CRT, they're (a) cheaper and (b) nice and heavy and, if anyone is stupid enough to break in here again, it's not something they're going to carry out so easily. (Not the way the last person did, carting off my 10-plus-year-old b&w set with the broken antenna--he must have been really desperate! And I was grateful for the push to get a color TV.)

But I'm feeling quite bereft without the comfort of late-night TV. And silence while I'm eating is difficult to endure--I can't really read while I'm eating, so I just find myself eating faster with nothing to distract me. I am trying to pause and pick up a book in-between bites, but it's not working out so well. Getting more reading done is the only good thing about being TV-less.

Meanwhile, I'm still trying to figure out how to bittorrent (I'll let you know when I do, fed lurkers, sure I will). I miss HOUSE. I'm hoping not to miss THE 4400 when its new season starts.

I'm trying not to stress out over all the money people owe me that they don't seem to want to part with, but I'm looking at the calendar and when all my bills are due and serenity is not coming easily today. All I can do at this point is send emails and make phone calls and let it go. What will be, will be. The Universe will provide. It always has, if not in the way or time that I'd wish.

There, that's enough procrastinating. Get to work, Sharon!