I coulda been a Luddite. In another time and another place I could have been happy without all this technology. I love, love, love, not having a television. I sometimes want to cry when the phone rings. I don’t want to venture too many steps from my own door and I wish my children would all live near me forever.

But over the years there have been a few things I missed watching on the tube. I missed watching the Olympics and I missed all those great BBC shows. Now from my computer I can do almost everything I ever wanted to do. I can watch almost any BBC series ever made. I can watch all those PBS shows, you know the only shows on American television that anyone will ever admit to watching.

How many times have you had this conversations?:

Person 1: “We don’t have a TV.”
Person 2: ” We only watch public television.”

That isn’t even a joke since I have heard it millions of times.

Why am I telling you all this?

Because I can download Season 5 of 24 from iTunes before it ever hits the DVD store.

I can watch 24; then I can watch other people watch 24; then I can watch other people watch other people watch 24, all from my computer.

Right now!

It is going to be a long day.