Laptop goodness continues on a flight from Salt Lake City UT, to Burbank, CA. I feel like a kid in a candy store. I find myself wondering why I waited so long to get a laptop in the first place. Being that computers are such a part of my life now, it makes sense that having one that’s portable would be awesome indeed.
In fact, it’s a bit strange when I think about it just how much time I do spend on computers. I spend all day on them from about 8:30 in the morning till 6pm, unless we’re in crunch mode at work, which means I may be there till midnight or later.
Even if I do get home at a normal time, one of the first things I do when I walk through the door is sit down at the computer. It’s how I spend my evenings as well. I cancelled my cable TV, because there was just too much crap that I didn’t want to watch. I can’t stand “Reality TV”, or sitcoms or most of the mindless drivel that I kept running into. I do like the Discovery channel and the History channel, but not $50.00 a month worth.
The only thing I use my TV for is console games and rented movies.
So in the evenings, I work on my own artwork, as opposed to the art I create at my job. Since I’m either working with 3D graphics, Photoshop, or digital photos, everything I do as far as my own artwork is on the computer as well. It’s a fun time in history to be doing all of this, because it’s changing so fast. I keep wondering what computers will be like in 10-20 years from now. I watched and worked with the earliest home computers at a point when graphics were pretty much impossible, and in the course of only about 15 to 20 years we’re creating photo-realistic 3D computer graphics that in some cases can’t even be spotted as anything other than reality.
What a wild ride!
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My husband and I cancelled our cable TV about a year ago and have no regrets. Instead of sitting in front of the tube with a drug induced look on our faces while endlessly scanning crap for something good, we are now reading, playing guitar, walking outside, golfing or just enjoying the quiet. Its called living. We both spend time on our lap tops and yes, our connection is a cable modem. We rent DVDs and enjoy a couple of movies every week and if there’s a game we want to watch, we join friends or hang out at the local bar. Life is just so much fuller. A co-worker cancelled her cable TV about a year before we did - she was our inspiration. Its not about the money, its about living life.
I haven’t missed it either. I like renting movies on the weekend, but other than that, I’ve got too much other stuff I want to do!
I have a ton of hobbies, and will have even more when I move back home next month (yay!). And I agree with your comment that “it’s called living.”
I cannot fathom the point of “Reality TV”…I always thought reality was thing that’s going on around us all the time.