The remote on our television (only one in our family so far) has been on the blink for the better part of two years. That definitely hinders the television watching experience and limits our ability to be couch potatoes. After all, the real fun is in switching from channel to channel without really getting sucked into anything (sort of like web surfing, isn't it?), and it's hard to do that when you've got to get up from the couch, walk over to the television to make the switch, sit back down, decide this isn't something you really want to watch, get up again, and repeat the whole procedure.

But as I write this our remote has finally been fixed (a minor short that simply waited much too long to be attended to) and we can return to that long-lost lifestyle of zapping.