I guess I miss a lot by not watching TV.

When I worked on the cruise ships in the late 1980s there was no broadcast TV on the ship. The technology hadn't arrived. Instead, there was the movie that played over and over and over and over, and the endless advertising crawls. So I occupied my non-gig time by doing things; learning new songs, practicing, reading, and so on.

I got off the ship in December 1989, got home, hooked up the cable, and a couple of months later I realized I was paying $45/month for nothing. I was so used to doing things instead of TV I found doing more enjoyable than watching. When I tried to sit down and watch, I'd get fidgety thinking about all the other things I'd rather be doing. So I disconnected.

The house was built in 1950 and was wired for an antenna, I know how to hook one up, but didn't After a couple of years when I decided to repaint I took the mast down.

The last two TV shows I watched were Johnny Carson's last Tonight show and Jay Leno's first Tonight show, and I had to go to my mother-in-law's to see them.

Instead of TV I learned to write styles for BiaB, learned to play lead guitar, learned to play wind synth, learned how to run a mail-order-business selling BiaB styles, when the Internet came around I learned how to write HTML code, made my own web pages, and converted the mail-order biz to a dot com.

There is nothing wrong with watching TV. Doing what you enjoy is never a waste of time, it's just that I enjoy doing things more than I enjoy passive entertainment.

I guess I'm just weird that way.

Bob "Notes" Norton smile Norton Music
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