This year for lent, my wife and I are limiting our TV intake.

We are giving ourselves 4 hours a week, which includes movies. We specified 1 hour on Friday, 2 on Saturday, and one on Sunday. For simplicity sake, I guess we can just say 4 hours on the weekend. That will probably allow us 1 movie and a couple 40 something minute shows on Hulu.

This may help solve my Life/Life Balance issue. Or it may just drive me more towards the internet (I’m not sure “more” is even possible).

I haven’t figured out my video game usage yet, but since I haven’t been playing all that much, I’m not worried.

For the next 40 days and 40 nights our Netflix cue is going to grind to a halt. I will be auctioning off slots on our cue for $2 a movie. Please contact me for details.

Maybe I will use that NBC.com HD download thing to cue up some episodes of Heroes. Hulu and ABC.com are going to run out of episodes by the time we get back to our online TV watching.

Anyway, the point is, when I was younger I gave up bagels one year for lent and I never really went back. At the time, I was eating at least two bagels a day. I was young, I could afford the calories. Maybe the same thing will happen with TV. Probably not, but here’s to hoping for a more productive lifestyle.

(For those of you who have seen our cats, the picture above does look Kenzie, but its not. I found it on the internets.)