It’s rainy again today… After weeks of sunshine, it’s starting to feel like London around here, London in the summertime at least…

I haven’t spoken about one of the big advantages of living overseas where you don’t understand the language well… no TV!

Yes, we could turn the thing on and watch BBC or CNN, but we can get all that on the internet. Would it help our spanish to watch Argentine TV, maybe, but I don’t think I could stand it…

I realize the advantage of not watching TV when I’m on the internet… at certain mainstream websites I see little tidbits of the things that come on American TV… news about ‘Dancing with the Stars’, the latest in ‘American Idol’ gossip… and I thank goodness I don’t have that crap foisted on me like you do with TV, where it seems more invasive than the internet.

Sometimes you find yourself on a channel because of inertia, or you’re not paying attention, and before you know it you’ve consumed precious minutes of your life-span on some worthless rubbish…

In the US I bought a large flat-screen TV just because I thought we should have one. And we could watch a movie every now and again on it… Of course I ended up turning it on way too often and wasting countless hours that I’ll never get back.

I sold the flat-screen about a month after buying it… I’m just not responsible enough to own one…

But then in the US I would feel like I was ‘missing out’ on something… Even though I knew darn well that I wasn’t.

Here we are TV free.

While I wouldn’t recommend moving overseas to get away from the boob tube… It’s a little fringe benefit of doing so…