Kill your TV?

I cant say I never watch TV (ha!) but Tivo has helped me become far more selective about only watching what I want. The rest of the TV videoscape is pretty much a black box to me.

Well, this week I've been forced to see TV against my will. In particular, daytime television. I had a minor medical procedure this week, and had to wait for three hours in a doctor's office yesterday -- and I'm home for the rest of the week.

I don't know what crazy soap opera was on -- something about a disfigured monk imploring his young charge to help him retrieve a sacred chalice in Rome to keep it from those who would do evil (hello, Da Vinci Code?), mixed in with a plot about a mermaid girl who's keeping her tail behind her legs, if you will, and so on. The woman hoping to get her child's assassin to start tailing her was the most conventional plot line. The quality of the acting was on par with the plot constructions.

All I can think is, who watches this stuff? Then the ads came on -- child diapers, adult diapers, menstrual products, short-period birth control. Maybe I'm spoiled by ad-free premium cable, maybe I'm used to the 30 second skip on my TiVo. But what planet was I on, seriously. I have a new found appreciation for the hours I'm in the office not wathcing daytime TV, I guess.

Or maybe I should just try Oprah and quit whining? I have the rest of the week at home...

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