# Screen Time *Entered: emacs on daily driver* | *Date: 20221101* *Soundtrack: Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter* ## How It Started "Screen time" has been a pervasive issue for a few years now, but I recall in the late 70's, my parents were concerned about the time I spent watching just the 3 1/2 channels on our Zenith, and in the 80's, time spent on a TV screen hooked up to cable or a game console, or a CRT monitor hooked up to a machine with a dial up connection so slow it seemed that talking on the phone was faster. Soon my parents replaced that problem with a new one when I got my first guitar, but that's a whole different story. ## How It's Going 13 year old me probably would have thought this sounds cool, but today at my job I am staring at 3 screens all day, and occasionally answering emails or joing a Teams meeting on a phone for that same job after hours. Just like everyone else around me. And ironically, while I am doing this I look forward to staring at a linux screen when I get home, and on specific nights, watching the game on a TV screen.