I've actually adjusted to my limited channel access (now down to just two channels after my most recent auto channel scan). I no longer feel a compulsion to channel surf until I'm sure I'm watching just the thing I'd rather watch over all other possible choices. It no longer matters whether I hit the Channel Up or Channel Down button, since it only alternates between two channels. I'm enjoying the very easy decision of which channel to watch, especially since 95% of the time channel 20 isn't worth watching.
Which leads to the surprising finding that there are some pretty good shows on 5! Who knew that I would be watching so much FOX? I wouldn't yet call them my favorite shows (and does the word "favorite" mean anything in the absence of choice?), but I readily admit to liking them a lot. Human Target (impossibly handsome, hunky Christopher Chance, always cool and physically capable in the face of hopeless odds, and nice as can be), Bones (the comical but tortured dance between Bones and Agent Booth as they solve forensic mysteries), and House (the inappropriate, abrasive, brilliant Gregory House) all keep me interested. And I have become addicted to American Idol for the first time, too.
Life without premium paid TV isn't impossible - which is a good thing, since Verizon has apparently abandoned plans to expand its FiOS fiber optic network into Alexandria. With the exception of missing the winter Olympics, I don't feel I've suffered much at all. And without a way to record (not that I can watch anything I'd want to record now), I just shrug when I miss a show I'd wanted to see, rather than getting upset.
I've always lamented the loss of simpler times, and now, in a small way, I have rediscovered them.
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