Time Spent Watching TV

I'm not watching TV right here, but it is on inside.

We are awake approximately 960 minutes per day. With 366 days during the leap year of 2016, I was awake for very close to 351,360 minutes (350,400 minutes during non-leap years, just FYI). 

This is also approximately how long you were awake during 2016. So, how did you use your time? 

In 2016, I kept track of the amount of TV/Movies I watched. I added 500 minutes as an adjustment for all those times when I was sitting in a restaurant or sports bar and there was a TV on the wall, or I was at another person's home and their TV was on.  These times I did not log. My total time: 15498 minutes. 

That is 4.41% of my time, or about 42 minutes and 20 seconds of TV/Movie watching per day, on average. Counting days in terms of awake time (960 minutes rather than all 1440 minutes of a 24 hour day), I watched TV for 16 total days of my life in 2016.  

Many of you know that I don't watch very much TV. Erin and I don't have cable. We've canceled Netflix. Still, I've managed to be in front of the tube 42 minutes each day.  

When I think of what I could have accomplished during those 16 days, I get a little nauseous. What if I practiced playing the guitar for those 42 minutes each day?  What if I practiced learning Finnish?  

I could probably play guitar somewhat decently by now, or perhaps speak, write, and read fluent Finnish.  

It is a little unreasonable to think I can utilize all of that time. We all need some of our time to be entertaining, and there were several shows and programs that I thought were very worth my time. On the same token, there are many more programs that I would have been perfectly fine having not watched. 

If interested, here was my list for 2016. I've italicized all those that I believed worth my time in terms of the quality of the movie, the company I was in, the educational aspect, or the pure entertainment value.  

Movies/TV	Time
Mozart in the Jungle S1 & S2	480
Everest	121
Bridge of Spies	142
Spectre	148
Sicario (2 viewings)	242
Suffragette	106
Creed	133
The Guard	96
Vikings S3	450
Mad Max: Fury Road	120
The Big Short	130
Spotlight	128
The Revenant	156
The Martian	144
The Americans S1	612
Fortitude S1	528
Star Wars: The Force Awakens	138
House of Cards S4	635
Deadpool	108
Van Wilder	92
Sherlock Holmes: The Abominable Bride	44
Californication S1	348
Game 7 NBA Finals	140
The League S6	288
Bosch S1 & S2	1020
Walking Dead S5	672
Palio	91
Magic Mike XXL	115
Fargo S2	530
Whisky Tango Foxtrot	112
Hail, Caesar!	106
Better Call Saul S1	460
Daredevil S2	700
The Fundamentals of Caring	97
Tallulah	111
Ip Man	106
Beasts of No Nation	137
River S1	360
The Hateful Eight	187
Dope	103
Vikings S4	450
The Last Man on the Moon	95
Cartel Land	100
Brooklyn	117
Sons of Anarchy S7 Ep1-Ep6	345
Luther S4	174
Mr. Robot S1	460
Game of Thrones S5	560
The Nice Guys	116
Eye In the Sky	102
Anomalisa	90
Triple 9	115
Knight of Cups	118
Midnight Special	112
The Lobster	119
Star Trek Beyond (2 Viewings)	244
The Man Who Knew Infinity	108
The Kettering Incident S1 e1	50
Sausage Party	89
Central Intelligence	107
The Intern	121
Supermensch	85
Pricele$$	58
Hell or High Water	102
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	134
Citizen Koch	90
Pay 2 Play	87
The Jungle Book	106
Zootopia	108
~ Adjustment for TV in other places	500
Total Time Watching TV/Movies 2016	15498