Honing The Craft Of Guarding The Televison

As I have been sitting at home off from work for almost three weeks now I have been honing the craft of guarding the television. Besides surfing the internet and this blog there isn't much else I can do. For the first couple of weeks I could hardly hobble around the apartment. I have had many doctors appointments. I do not know that many people so I can't spend a lot of time on the phone. So the television has been my constant companion. My sleep has been irregular at best. I can't seem to find a comfortable position to sleep in. If the sheet hits my toe I wake up immediately. So I have been sleeping here and there a couple hours at a time. Often times just dosing off in a chair as it does seem to be the most comfortable position to sleep at this juncture. Often with the TV on. I have been somewhat following the Tour de France. I never understood it at all before but now have a vague idea of how it works. The French countryside is also beautiful. And where do all the people come from who line the sides of the roads for them to pass by in about five seconds? I assume they are devout fans or perhaps it is just a big party or something. I am not that big of a fan of anything. The hand full of channels that I watch seem to play the same show all day long. Most of which I have seen before. The reality shows can get pretty stupid. A couple of the channels that play movies play the same ones for days in a row. I have watched infomercials about vacuum cleaners, cooking devises, health stuff and home shopping network. PBS has some good stuff every once in a while. I can't seem to want to listen to music. The antibiotics prevent me from going out in the sun. I would feel guilty trying to go out to do something since I am off work over this. Just going to the laundry is a painful chore. I usually walk as it is close but drove today as I could not walk that far. I also realize that I do not know that many people. As only a couple of people have called or stopped by. I did end up keeping the smart phone. Sort of boxed myself into it as I did not have the money to get it back by the return deadline. Sort of fates way of justifying something that was not a necessity. Not a frugal move on my part. It does have a lot of neat features and have got it hooked up to my wi fi some I can surf the net without using up the allowed data time. Both of my computers are old. I have had the free time to work on these as I can't do anything very physical. Got the desk top working pretty well. Took the laptop and completely stripped it down to the original state. First removing all the original unwanted programs. They had to add eight years of updates and compatibility issues that have made it a useable machine again. I was convinced that it was beyond usefulness. But a little effort, patience and time on my hands I got it done. I go back to the foot doctor tomorrow. I wish that he could just wave his magic wand and make it disappear. As my toe is still black and blue with a little blood and stuff coming out of it. Still haven't had a shoe on. Put on socks for the first time in weeks yesterday. It is like a bad dream but in fact reality. Sitting at home like this has made me realize that 99% of my social life is of or pertaining to work. Pretty shallow on my part but good enough. If I deviate form my routine I just get into trouble or make an idiot of myself. Or both. I a guarding the television as I write this now.