Thanks for compiling these. It was well worth the looooong time it took to download on my slow dial-up.
I didn't watch the wedding myself much, but I was in the same room with it, because my 8 year old youngest daughter was absolutely glued. The Disney Corporation with its princesses have much to answer for!
Anyway, it did seem like a lovely affair, and not nearly as frighteningly... off... as Charles and Diana's.
DIALUP! ((HUG)) You have my empathy! When WiFail forces me to go 56kbps, YouTube, Hulu, & streaming news become nearly impossible to watch.
Canceling cable TV is inconvenient for keeping up with my F-Lists fandoms, but sure does filter out 99% of the hype and advertising I'm exposed to.
I was too young to be anything but awed when Charles & Diana were wed, but their marriage, in retrospect, was certainly frightening. It's adorable that their eldest son chose a wife who's a LOT like his Gran in personality.
Oh, I only watch YouTube etc. for an hour on Thursday afternoon, when one of my kids has a weekly appointment in a building with wi-fi. I bring my laptop and catch up on the occasional thing that members of my flist may have recommended.
We do TV via DirecTV satellite. One of the few expensive indulgences my husband's physician's salary allows us, other than lessons and sports for the kids, and college tuitions ditto.
There have to be some disadvantages to living here in picturesque rural Vermont, otherwise everyone would move here, and it wouldn't be rural anymore. Viewed that way, slow dial-up isn't so bad (we get an average of about 42kbps). Still, there is a plan whereby we may be able to get fiberoptic in 2-3 years, and I can't say I won't rejoice greatly when that happens!
We use the money that would've been allocated to cable TV to attend local symphony & chamber music concerts. I'd much rather support local musicians than trashy reality TV, or networks that cancel my favorite shows.
College tuitions suck all the money from a household budget! It's disheartening how expensive post-secondary education is without student loans, and how long people remain in debt because of them. I'm blessed that my mom worked her butt off to help me graduate without debt.
My dad had the misfortune to publish his first novel while I was in college, and that meant that almost all his profits became instant tuition!
All our kids will graduate with some debt, but only the amount that Stafford Unsubstantiated loans allow, not any private bank loans. They'll be paying for a few years, but not forever.
I sure wish we could be sure that they graduated debt-free like we did (my husband's parents were well-enough to do that med. school was on the house too, and they payed my living expenses while my fellowship and T.A. position covered tuition). That simply is not possible with four kids, although it would have been if we'd stopped at two. My husband does earn a doc's salary, but in rural practice he is now earning the pay that the average internist (his specialty) was earning back in 1987.
I absolutely agree with your values system as regards cable TV. The kind of memories you collect from live performance is so much more valuable, and classical musicians can use the support so much more than the media
Your poor dad! Couldn't enjoy the fruits of his labor because of higher ed. :( Hope his subsequent novels made up for it.
My cousin-in-law's head of an anesthesiology department, so I understand the misconception that physicians are rollin' in dough, when the reality involves exorbitant malpractice insurance premiums.
I didn't watch the wedding myself much, but I was in the same room with it, because my 8 year old youngest daughter was absolutely glued. The Disney Corporation with its princesses have much to answer for!
Anyway, it did seem like a lovely affair, and not nearly as frighteningly... off... as Charles and Diana's.
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Canceling cable TV is inconvenient for keeping up with my F-Lists fandoms, but sure does filter out 99% of the hype and advertising I'm exposed to.
I was too young to be anything but awed when Charles & Diana were wed, but their marriage, in retrospect, was certainly frightening. It's adorable that their eldest son chose a wife who's a LOT like his Gran in personality.
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We do TV via DirecTV satellite. One of the few expensive indulgences my husband's physician's salary allows us, other than lessons and sports for the kids, and college tuitions ditto.
There have to be some disadvantages to living here in picturesque rural Vermont, otherwise everyone would move here, and it wouldn't be rural anymore. Viewed that way, slow dial-up isn't so bad (we get an average of about 42kbps). Still, there is a plan whereby we may be able to get fiberoptic in 2-3 years, and I can't say I won't rejoice greatly when that happens!
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We use the money that would've been allocated to cable TV to attend local symphony & chamber music concerts. I'd much rather support local musicians than trashy reality TV, or networks that cancel my favorite shows.
College tuitions suck all the money from a household budget! It's disheartening how expensive post-secondary education is without student loans, and how long people remain in debt because of them. I'm blessed that my mom worked her butt off to help me graduate without debt.
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All our kids will graduate with some debt, but only the amount that Stafford Unsubstantiated loans allow, not any private bank loans. They'll be paying for a few years, but not forever.
I sure wish we could be sure that they graduated debt-free like we did (my husband's parents were well-enough to do that med. school was on the house too, and they payed my living expenses while my fellowship and T.A. position covered tuition). That simply is not possible with four kids, although it would have been if we'd stopped at two. My husband does earn a doc's salary, but in rural practice he is now earning the pay that the average internist (his specialty) was earning back in 1987.
I absolutely agree with your values system as regards cable TV. The kind of memories you collect from live performance is so much more valuable, and classical musicians can use the support so much more than the media
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My cousin-in-law's head of an anesthesiology department, so I understand the misconception that physicians are rollin' in dough, when the reality involves exorbitant malpractice insurance premiums.
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