And MrsGGB thinks the plethora of home design shows are all worth watching, never know what ideas they might come up with. And for her, Mystery is worth watching...nearly every night, because, well "it's culture". And Stargate, and Enterprise, and Battlestar Galactica, and CSI and Law and Order and.... pretty soon the TV is the only one getting a good workout.

We were without a TV for several months a few years ago (the old one was one we got used from my Grandmothers estate, and it eventually got so dim that you had to turn out all the lights to see it, and you still couldn't see any of the darker scenes). It finally got so dim that there was no discernable picture before I caved in and agreed to get a new one. I tell ya, I didn't miss the TV one minute for the several months we didn't have one.