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Television therapy

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I wrestled the TV away from hubby today and flipped to the Food Network. The winner of The Next Food Network Star was already been crowned, and I missed it! I also missed nearly all of Top Chef Masters. Grrrr….

Hubby has been spending a lot more time in front of the TV since he’s been at home. It means my TV viewing has whittled down to episodes of Robot Chicken and Cardinals baseball games. I run away when the news is on and I told hubby he’s lucky I like baseball.

One of my sister’s friends who’s a television junkie told me that studies have shown that your brain waves go beta when you watch television and they use that as an argument not to do it. For her, that’s exactly why she watches television. Karen’s a smart gal — I’m going with her argument.

I might need to put my foot down as Top Chef Las Vegas starts. What do they say? Cheaper than therapy.

Technical tolerance

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There must be a word for this. Not quite IQ…something about being able to assimilate and organize technological data well. Like I’m meant for it — though I really came to computers pretty late in the game.

In any case, I have a high affinity/tolerance for electronic info. I discovered it early on when I first started clunking around at the UCLA computer lab. It’s not like I’m a computer whiz. I’m not. But I naturally mesh with file systems and electronic organization and data on-screen. I rarely lose e-mails in the shuffle. Because I read them and categorize the important ones in my head and answer them later. I know there are computer based tools for that, but I don’t use them. I should.

All I can say right now is — Too much! TILT. Unable to compute.

Okay, Matrix. You win. Guess I should set boundaries.