Friday, October 24, 2008

Change the Channel

When Jill and I moved to this town, we found out that it is nearly impossible to get any channels on the television without getting cable. So... we lived for a while without TV and it was alright, and then Jill got Cable because she needed it for football season. The Cable left when Jill left, and Husband and I have been without it for a while.

We got a digital antenna because that was supposed to fix the entire thing. Our converter box and antenna were going to be the monthly fee free solution to the problem. We found out that not even digital channels are broad casted at a high enough power level to reach this little middle of everywhere place.

We had Fox, NBC, and Occasionally (about once a week, after 6 P.M., when the atmospheric conditions were just right) we had channel 12... barely.

So I got used to changing the channel. That's it... one channel to change... then back to the first one... option a, option b, a, b, a, b... so on and so fourth.

Then the reception on Fox and NBC got dodgy... Chris got frustrated and made an antenna hammock out of my crochet yarn to hang in our large window in our living room in hopes that it would help... It didn't.

Long story short, we got cable. It is the most basic of basic packages. We get the first 6 months free and then after that we only pay $12.95 a month. It was hard to convince the cable guy that we didn't want to upgrade for 14.95 a month... we just wanted basic cable.

Last night I changed the Channels! It was pretty awesome... lots of political stuff, some home shopping network, and The Office of course.

Now I will be privileged to watch every Jerry Bruckheimer episode that CBS has to offer.

1 comment:

Mrs. Buller said...

huzzah!! that's kinda funny, cause channel 12 is really bad for us. oh well, it's not like the tv is our main source of tv.

your word verification is 'tumbe' i thought you'd like to know that once again it's almost a word. but not an inappropriate one.