After 5 years of arguing with the TV, trying to turn it off, waiting for the HD switch on February 17 to make me turn it off, I surrendered. I realized that I had to make the change. I woke up this morning and put the TV in a box in the garage. This has been a fruitful morning even with the radio on. It doesn’t suck me in as much. I will leave it in the garage, kinda of like putting the cookies on a high shelf so I forget about them. I feel somehow liberated.