Those of you who have followed me even a little know I have given up TV other than for news. I still have it on for my wife. Still, I am going through advertising anger. Some of these so called news programs nowadays are 60% advertising… advertising their own news programs. Worse, they are getting monotonous showing the same lame ads repeatedly. It’s their station. They can run their stations the way they want to. I just see no future in it, for either of us.

I have stumbled across some videos lately on the internet that have really surprised me. Such as, I have found full productions of “The Pirates of Penzance.” I have since watched two of them. I would guess there are many other such programs for us who like such things. It will just take a little searching. I enjoyed it far more than the programing the networks are trying to force on us these days.

I have also found other, shorter videos. There is one where a woman man used PVC pipes and plastic wrap to make a pretty good boat. Then she got an oar and rowed away. I saw a couple of men dig out a small house out of the ground in a couple of days. I saw a man build a small RC powered by air compressed in two 2 liter bottles.

Maybe most would not be entertained by such things, but I do find it fascinating to see what people can do with little more than a little imagination.

I have also found alternate sources for news. I know that it is not reliable. How-some-ever, neither is the news that comes from the newspapers, TV or radio. Moreover, most of what they put on the TV these days, isn’t news. Well, maybe it is for movie buffs. Maybe it is for those who don’t believe the sun will rise if they don’t find out what sports team won or lost. They must find out who hit home runs or scored TDs

I do have little more than a passing interest in such things. However, I do have a firm belief that none of it is truly as important as the real news. You know, who does what. Who says what. What laws might be passed and why. When I see the news on TV, it makes me realize just why so few people actually know what is happening in this world today. There was a time when people hungered for news. Maybe not so much anymore.

As near as I can tell, most of those programs that call themselves news, is, maybe 5 minutes news in a half hour program. As near as I can tell, the biggest favor I can do for them is to stop watching them. Maybe, when they discover folks aren’t watching, they just might change their ways. However, I have learned to hold out little hope. Their purpose is to make money for their corporation, not bring me the news.

Some time during the night, I will see or hear something that prompt me to write. I live under this really strange concept that if I keep plugging away, I can change a few minds. Then, in turn they too will will spread the word.

Occasionally, I will get an idea that I have a new way to present the plan of salvation. Perhaps it will be a way that will make it clearer. On the other hand, I just might get the interest of a man or woman. Then, by the power of God, one or two more people will go to heaven, instead of hell. I cannot pretend to be a big evangelist, but I do as I can and when I can. No decision is more permanent or more important. I mean, as the Word says, It is appointed for man once to die. Then comes the judgement.

Besides all that, I just like to write. That is odd, you know. I really don’t enjoy reading that much.

When I first got out of the Marines, things were really tuff for us for a while. We had no TV. I think I did more reading in that 6 months than I ever did or ever will. I did not sit and read. We had no furniture, none.