Bad timing!

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As I mentioned before, I think to get us all out of the collective mess we find ourselves in, it's going to take shared sacrifices.  We've asked the wealthy to pay a little more in taxes.  We're paying again what we did two years ago in payroll taxes, which is only fair.

Given my little financial circumstances, that shared sacrifice looks like me not having directv anymore.

That's going to save me $100 a month.  In the meantime, I haven't had a chance to hook up a tv antenna to pick up regular tv, so I have a DVD collection of this and that I haven't watched which is keeping me entertained today.

I ought to be at work.  I'd rather be at work, but I have something I'd rather not share.  My doctor gave me the bad news today.  I'm only half way through what this is and she doesn't want me to go back to work until Saturday.  Me, I'd be back today, but tomorrow works.  In the mean time, there's no TV and I'm watching, of all things, a movie called "Get Christy Love"  It's a 70's detective movie and the acting is absolutely atrocious.

Absolutely.

Earlier in the day, I watched some "informational films" produced by our Government during World War II.  It was all about what happened to start the war and they really were informational.  They were designed to explain to the soldiers why the war started.  All in all, they were interesting and pretty well done.

I think, though, that if I had to be sick, I would have waited until next week to give up pay TV.  To add to the pain, it's supposed to snow about a foot tonight, so hooking up TV is going to have to wait until the January thaw comes.  We always have one.

So, DVDs, radio, reading, and some stuff I'm working on will fill the time.  That and lots and lots of sleeping.


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