23 channels is a whole lot. How often are you faced with 23 options at once? In most situations, 23 options would be a mind boggling, overwhelming cornucopia of wealth. But not on TV. When my husband brought our cable box back to the cable company, the girl behind the counter looked him straight in the eye and said, "You mean the basic cable with 72 channels, right?" "No," he answered. "Just the 23 channels." "O--Kay," she said.
Walking back to his office, the husband had a spring in his step, an undeniable sense of liberty and accomplishment. "You know," a co-worker said, "I had a friend once who went down to 23 channels. But guess what. Check around. I'll bet you've got the Disney channel."
Sure enough, when we got home and surfed, we found that if you enter channel 24 on the remote control, a faded version of Disney Channel appears, even though the TIVO says it's QVC.
"Hah! We got 'em!" we thought. "A little sumpin-sumpin."
But will we tell the kids we still get the Disney Channel, Disney Channel on the black market? Nah.
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oh boy, I'm famous! I made your blog! Hee hee! Sorry about telling David about channel 24. I think y'all are doing a great thing and a great job! Keep it up.
ReplyDelete23 channels. whoa. that's a lot. we have zero. but I still feel completely overwhelmed by the amount of choices I can make in a day about what to do with my time. so much life, so little time. I want to soak up every possible second of outside time this spring, summer and fall.
ReplyDeletewe're going to spend 2 nights in an earthship in taos next week, to help us how to design our own off the grid home. we could have tv there, but why would we?
am I missing all that much by not having any cable at all, just high speed internet?
Hey, Marcy
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting! You are definitely living out there in the world with your two active kids. I love that you are reading. Keep up your good work at raising such neat, talented small ones.
Dawn,
You are such an inspiration to me. You're not missing anything. BTW, the Spiderman argument on day 19 all took place around the Netflix option of watching films on your computer via HS internet. So TV isn't the only thing that can zap you. You live such a full life in such a beautiful place. Can't wait to hear how the Taos adventure goes. Keep me posted.