Jennifer arrived safely yesterday in Taipei.. (actually, she flew in Sunday night pacific time, or monday morning their time).
This time she’s staying at the Regent Taipei Grand Formosa, which once again looks pretty darn nice..
We’ve been emailing a lot tonight, talking about various things.. the big one is though to save money, and try and travel more (vs buying things like a dual G5).. in reading James’s “Cut the cable” post, I’ve been thinking about dropping cable too.. maybe we have too many rooms with tv’s here, vs he’s got the cool Pearl loft, but it seems hard to me.. I watch a whole lot less tv that I do now, but I still crawl back to it every now and again.. I am trying out the Comcast HTDV DVR box, but that puts my cable and internet bill over $100 a month ($1200 a year).. even if we cut that in 1/2, that’s plane fare to some exotic locale.
Thoughts?
My wife & I decided to “cut the cable” two months after we had it installed and we make due with 3 or 4 local channels. Granted, I also find those irritating because of the commercials and more irritating than commercials is how programs end at the most exciting time and require you to turn in “next week”. And often “next week” is preempted, or a re-run, or I miss it, etc. So, for the most part, we rent / buy entire seasons of our favorite shows on DVD, and watch very little “TV” at all.