Perhaps the big exciting Switch to Digital was all a plot against good, wholesome, free TV? Before the switch, with our trusty eight-year-old rabbit ears, we had all the TV we wanted and more. Reception was clear. All was well.
But ever since the switch, we don't get ABC at all. We also lost WUNC-TV, our local PBS broadcaster (And when I say local, I mean like a mile away. I drive by their studios all the time.). We tried playing with our antenna, we wondered whether we should cough up some change for a new, fancy antenna (we ended up saying no), and suddenly everything we ever wanted to watch seemed to be on ABC or PBS.
So tomorrow we'll be getting cable. It will cost us $25/month to get like a bazillion channels (350 or so), including TLC, all the movie channels (HBO, Showtime, Cinemax), and the other 300 channels we'll probably never watch. In exchange for this low price, we're giving up our land-line digital phone service. We rarely use it, and when we do we discover that it cuts out after a few seconds or is fuzzy or otherwise a pain. So it's back to cell-phones only, probably for the long run because we can't justify paying more for a third when we already have two phones in the house at all times.
I'll let you know if I get any schoolwork done after tomorrow. I remember when we had a free trial of cable in Lawrence for a couple weeks, and I watched Project Runway marathons and didn't do any unpacking for a week.
The book is really quite good. Almost makes me want to step away from the television.
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