Huh… a new year?
January 1st, 2009 by HenProbably the most uneventful new year’s eve of my life. Put the kids to bed as usual after a long and rather unhappy (crap oven) cookie baking session. Eldest went to bed a little late due to watching Shrek 2, but was asleep as soon as I’d finished reading the first couple of tiny chapters of The Twits. Squeezed in a bit of coding. Played Civ 4. Oh look it’s 2009.
One of the things I’ve noticed about having basic cable (ie: 15 channels or so) is that you miss a lot of the big hyped media holidays. The few channels we have that do hype things are the ones I tend to surf past the least. So the same applies to christmas - I’m finding these events less of a culturally or socially attached concept and more of a minor (or somewhat noticeable in the case of christmas) event for the family.
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Aaaaw, you need some New Year’s party invitations!
Family is always good. Just say no to cable: go live-media-free like we do. We have an antenna (a big one) but no DTV converter yet, and I don’t know if we’ll even notice when broadcast switches to digital. Plenty of DVDs at home, Netflix and streaming to fill up more than enough brain candy time. If you’re willing to try a variety of brain candy, Hulu or just one of the subscription services like Netflix is more than enough.
Happy New Year!