Time... Oh sweet time...

Heard a song a few days ago by my best friend. His song was an expansion of a new found philosophy on life... that life is about the things you take the time to do. He came about this one day shaving. Now mind you, we don't shave using your typical wire covered, 9 blade, double aloe strip bullshit razors. We are gentlemen (or at least we shave like them). A double edge safety razor by Merkur for myself and a straight edge from Germany for Ray. It takes a solid 15 minuets to get a great shave... at least. Mind you I said a great shave, not an OK shave, not a quick shave, a GREAT shave. Now see, that is the point. It takes time. Not half minded, 6 am, mind on autopilot kind of time, but total focus and dedication. Not too many men know in what direction every hair on their face grows, but I can guarantee you that anyone who uses a real razor, does.

Now, by this logic, there is no such thing as killing time anymore. You can not just be, "killing time at the bar" or "watching mindless tv". You are making a conscious effort to take the time, to be doing nothing. You know, I appreciate a drink at quite bar from time to time. The kind of bar where you don't find women hanging around, but where you can read the news with a pint of some dark stuff. Where you can have a meaningful conversation with a perfect stranger.

TV is the one that kills me. Now I enjoy The Office, Grey's Anatomy, It's Always Sunny, just to name a few... but I wait until they come out on DVD... that is stupid right? Pay 30 bucks for a season of The Office when anyone with a working television and coat hanger could view it for free... I bet you have heard this one before, NOTHING in life is FREE...If you watch a 30 min tv segment, you have just watched and average of 8 mins of commercials... and now a quote..."According to the A.C. Nielsen Co., the average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day (or 28 hours/week, or 2 months of nonstop TV-watching per year). In a 65-year life, that person will have spent 9 years glued to the tube". Out of those 4 hours, one hour and four minuets (give or take) was commercials telling you to go buy shit you don't need, food when you aren't even hungry, or that what you have isn't good enough. What is an hour of your time worth? I may buy something you could watch on Hulu for free, but for 4 hours of TV you watch, I watch 4 hours of commercial free TV... and I don't even have to fast forward the TiVo. If you do the math, over the 9 years we will likely spend in front of a tv, 2.6 years will be watching commercials... suckers...

On that note, I think I've taken enough time, wasting my time... blogging