Busy, Busy, Busy......

Been quite busy lately. A good thing, I guess. This is just a quick note about a conversation I had with a co-worker..... he was looking at a book I have at work while I made some data entry changes for him. In our subsequent talk while the computer did it's thing, he told me that he's a reader too, that he doesn't have a TV. A strange comment. At first I thought he ment himself personally. Like I call the tv in the family room, where my computer is, one of the 5 tvs we have in the house, the one I watch while doing my 2 miles on the treadmill every morning, I call that tv mine. That's what I thought he ment. But he went on to clarify: His parents had a tv when he was growing up. He apparently was not real impressed. His wife did not have one when she was growing up. When they they got married and set up household, they decided not to have one around. So they don't! (is that legal? should I be notifying someone about this? (Max Headroom??))Not having met their children, I can't gauge the affect it has on them. No doubt they adjusted to it long ago, so it's no big deal now. I didn't think to ask him if his children expressed any inclination as to their preference once they move out on their own. And it's not as though they're technophobes. He does have a computer. Just no tv.

Very interesting.

I know the Receptionista at Hammer and Peg joined in the Turn Your TV Off For A Week campaign (see link... I have to figure out how to embed these things in here one of these days). She went through withdrawal but found she got a lot of other things done that she'd been meaning to do for a long time.

I don't think anyone would salute that flag if it were run up the flagpole at home....