Saturday, October 22, 2005
Obscurity here I come
So, the Joyce is done. Poetry almost done. Jude the Obscure left. The building?
I slept until 10am this morning and it was heaven. Then into town to get Guinea Pig food, coffee and Halloween stuff. Home for a bit then off to soccer game. Then, when we got home horrors! For my son. The T.V. was dead. Like I care. Actually just then I did care because I was trying to finish Portrait... For I while I had to listen to "I am so bored...." but then it stopped and somehow the poor child managed to find a way to amuse himself.
Other householders agreed the dead TV is a tragedy, but I don't watch it ever, really, so to be honest, all I did was help move the dead one and hook up the even older one (Which did confirm the death of the previous one) Acutally, it is a bad thing in a way because analog TV's are soon to be unusable but it would be the height of stupidity to buy digitial when the red-tapers are still arguing over how and what. All I know is that digital TV will end up meaning more money paid by the consumer to huge corporations for less service than we have now. Think about it. Digital music has Corporations screaming that the sky is falling and consumers must be sued and their digital devices rendered nearly useless. Your cell phone is nearly useless because your provider disables all the cool features (like bluetooth that works) so they can implement a crippled version you have to pay for. What makes you think it will any different with digital TV? It won't be. But I don't watch TV so I don't care. If you do, start paying attention now.
As for writing, well, I have an exam Monday and Jude the Obscure is calling my name. I confess, during the drive to San Rafael and back and I mulled over The Rake and I do believe I have solved the issue to be presented in the synopsis. Panic seems to be good for me.
