TV or not TV

Hanging at home yesterday, doing the Mom stuff (cleaning, laundry. etc.) I'm waiting for the playoff games to come on. The kids are out so I start watching the Colts-Ravens game. About 5 minutes into the game here they come, with some friends. Now, their video games are hooked up to the TV in the living room so I know why they are here. "Hey, whatcha doing Dad?" "I'm cleaning leaves out of the gutters. Here's your sign". And then their pacing starts. To the kitchen, back outside, one heads to the bathroom. At the end of the first half I tell them they can have the TV. Later on I have to negotiate watching the second half of the Eagles-Saints game.

The kids have TV's in their rooms but they couldn't hang with friends there, it's too small. So that's why the video games are hooked up in the living room. But I don't have a TV in my room, and I don't really want one. So the living room TV is where I do my occasional viewing. But I feel I'm being wedged out here. I don't like to pull rank, I like that they are hanging here and not out on the streets. But there's the rest of the playoffs, March Madness, the Stanley Cup, BASEBALL all coming up. I may have to breakdown and get a TV.

Or sell the kids.