Captured by a mind-sucking entity

By Mike Jastrzebski

Okay, so maybe captivated would be a better word than captured, but lately I have been unable to turn off the television. In the morning we’ve been going bicycling, but as soon as I get home I turn the damn beast on. I leave it on while I’m working on the boat. I watch programs I’ve seen before. I watch game shows. Hell, I’ve even got the TV on while I’m writing this post.

The truth is, the television is the reason I haven’t been writing lately. It’s the reason work on the boat is going slower than it should, although to be fair to myself, the boat work is coming along a little every day and right now we are on schedule to get out of here by December.

When we were in the Bahamas we didn’t have any TV and we got along just fine. We watched a couple of DVD’s, but I got a lot of reading done and we spent a good deal of time exploring the islands where we stopped; research for the book I should be writing. I didn’t seem to miss it.

So why am I hooked now that we’re back at the dock? You don’t have to write in and answer, it’s really a rhetorical question. It’s my mind numbing excuse for not working on the next book. You see, if I turn off the TV then I have no reason for not writing. I can’t blame the problem on boatwork, because as I said earlier in this post, I’m getting boatwork done. All I really have to do is turn off the television and open the computer. Maybe tomorrow?

It makes me wonder how many books have not been written since the invention of TV? How many books have not been read? How many minds have been sucked dry by this friendly glowing monster?

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