This has been a fairly atypical week for me in that not one evening have I taken the laptop out of the bag and spent a large portion of the evening surfing these interwebs. Yes, I’m writing on the blog, but this is the first I’ve been on (at home) since my last blog post. I sat for a minute trying to put a reason behind this oddity and I must attribute this to television. I was surprised when it hit me. TV was keeping me from sallying forth on the web. Can the current TV obsessions (Fringe, House, NCIS, Bones, NFL Football, and the Food Network (to name a few)) be greater than the draw of the seemingly infinite chasm know as the internet – more to the point; Facebook, Twitter and a laundry list of “daily must visit” websites on my toolbar. Logically, I would instantly answer: Not hardly. However the evidence certainly points to the contrary.

Now I sit here and wonder why is TV is hoarding my “leisure time?” How have a handful of 24 or 44 minute weekly video stories (with 6 to 16 minutes of crap) overcome the draw of everything else that I could possibly be doing. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t regret watching the shows, but why now and not 3 weeks ago or 12 weeks ago. These questions are not rhetorical, and I don’t have an answer. Yes, I realize that I am watching new episodes of programs but don’t consider that the sole reason because there are dozens of channels that I never watch that would have “new to me” episodes on constantly. I could go even further. There was a time in the recent past when I didn’t watch any TV (with the exception of a few NFL games at a bar or friend’s house).

So why am I watching TV now when I didn’t then (then being any stretch of time where I wasn’t watching TV)?

Hmmm I say. Hmmm indeed.