Aug
12
Quitting Sky Sports might make my year
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The first thing I did when I came back from holiday was to quit Sky. I won’t miss anything but Sky Sports. The Sky customer magazine was waiting on the doorstep so I called the number and cancelled my subscription, which I have had since I left students halls in 2001.
I realiased before I went on holiday that I just watched too much TV. There would be evenings when I’d sit down on the couch after putting Eloise to bed and promise myself half an hour TV before dinner. That would turn into an hour, then a further hour during dinner. Then it would be 10pm and I’d be having to wake up early to catch up on the things I should have done the previous night. It had to stop.
In Cyburbia James Harkin estimates that the total amount of time it took to write wikipedia amounts to the length of time America spends watching TV commercials in a SINGLE WEEKEND. That’s what a time-sapper TV really is. And, fair credit to the Sky call centre operative, he didn’t argue when I said that I was cancelling it because I watched too much of it.
Tonight, I was reminded just why. I started 30 minutes during dinner which turned into an hour as I hopped between some comically bad T20 cricket (featuring 3 people in the stands and some awful fielding from Imran Tahir) a Barenboim Beethoven masterclass with the sort of ugly people in the audience that would have had Margaret McDonagh shaking, an episode of Friends I’d already seen and a review of the 2008/09 Premiership season which was an average one for Liverpool. A true waste of time. No-one wrote in Abe Lincoln’s biography that he achieved extraordinary things channel hopping during the civil war. So now it’s all gone.
So just wait to be amazed at what is possible without the power of Sky (and an extra £25 a month in my wife’s pocket). Next challenge: staying sober when I’m down the pub watching Liverpool games twice a week.
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