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Date Posted: 1/4/26

When I was younger (early 20s) I did not want a tv in my place and my grandparents did not like that.  They wanted me to have a tv as a way to stay informed.  When I was a child I used to watch tv all day long.  8 hours a day was not unusual.  In my later teens I watched half of that and by my late 20s I cut my tv down to zero and eventually just got rid of it because all it did was take up space and collect dust.

Since then, I have become addicted to different things like online news, coding my website, gaming (to a lesser extent), caffeine, and a little bit to my smartphone.  I don't code nearly as much as I used to, so that is basically a non-entity as far as addiction goes.  

The ones I want to get rid of in my life are the smartphone and caffeine.  Caffeine is well on its way out of my life, but I mention it here in case it rears its ugly head in my life again.  The smartphone is a bit more difficult as I need to be able to be reached by work in different ways.  To that end I have deleted many apps on my phone leaving the ability to text, email, music, and get calls.  I deleted or disabled news apps, and browsers.  I will try to leave my phone downstairs at night.

We'll see how that works out.



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