the navel times and observer

I have a new goal, and while my track record for meeting goals over the last few months has been pretty dismal I figure I might as well kick myself off another. In part because I know others trying this and in part because it's gotten to be too big a part of my life lately, I'm giving up almost all television.

By that I mean not the television I watch to really enjoy, but the television I watch to fill in the hours. It's time to give it up and I've decided to try to do so for a month. I mean I have lots of music in the apartment and more books than I could read in many years on the shelves so there's really no need to fill ALL my time in with the coma-inducing idiot box.

And I won't completely give up on movies, but I imagine I'll probably limit them to 3 a week or fewer. And, since I plan on catching up on my Cardinals game watching (only three years absent save for last year's playoffs) I will cede TV I watch with other people (no FSN or cable to speak of in the apartment, though I figure the sports bar is likely to carry FSN if they hope to bring in Cards fans).

Lets hope this turns into something.

So, admittedly, I watch "Friends," it's syndicated, it's on, the TV's on, etcetera. And tonight at the top of the episode they were testing themselves to name all 50 states within 6 minutes.

Embarrassingly, I gave it a shot. Embarrassingly and while I remembered all 50 states, it took all but a few seconds of those six minutes. I'll have your blood, timer.

I don't think I'll ever understand how some women I know can say it's so hard to find a decent human being to date when I know for a fact there's a perfectly decent guy lying on my couch right now who can't get a date to save his life.