Bloody hell, God... why do you hate me so?

What a poopy day... Woke up this morning, turned on the TV to check the weather and news, no satellite... my LBC got fried I think... half the channels work, the other half don't... did a signal check, and half the transponders are missing... ok, no big deal... call DirecTV, and someone will be out tomorrow...

So I have a third of my subscribed channels... and none of the good ones made it into that third... big deal... I've always got the internet...

WRONG!!!

I come in and sit down, and my DSL modem has no signal... ok... cycle the network, reset the modem, and it will fix itself... nope... again? nope... ok... time to call verizon...

"Hi, thanks for calling tech support, how can I help you?"
"Please transfer me to tier 2, I need to schedule a service call..."
"OK, let me just check a couple things first"

An hour and a half later after the guy read his whole script, he decides he can't help me, and needs to schedule a service call... argh!

So no TV or internet all day... guess it's time to start drinking...

Finally, my DSL is now picking up a signal, so I can at least check my email and do some drunk-posting...

God, why do you hate me so?

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johnsmith098 said:

I love my DVR for that reason , power lose' is even worse!


could be he was really doing you a favor.

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If he meant for me to get drunk and wander around the property today, at least he coulda made it a little warmer...

Read any good books lately?

Glibbidy said:

Read any good books lately?

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actually, that's what I did before wandering the property, finished reading my most recent Cider-makin' book...

Please share. Which cider book is it? Are you pressing apples too?
We have lot's of ripe apples around here these days.

the one I just finished today was 'Cider: Making, Using & Enjoying Sweet And Hard Cider' by Ann Proulx & Lew Nichols... very good book...

And yeah, I pressed my apples, I got a little over 5 gallons from my own trees & a couple of the neighbors (M004), and then I got 5 gallons of cider from the local school farm (M007)...

I just went through a huge mess with my Direct TV system, and you'll never guess what finally fixed it. We shut it down and restarted it several times: no good. Went into the settings and did a full restart: no good. Started flipping wires to see if one of the ribbon things they use to get through the sliding door was broken: nothing. Screwed around with settings and stuff: nope. Decided it must be the ribbon things, went to home depot, bought a foot long masonry bit, drilled holes through the wall and ditched the ribbons: nothing yet. So I turn the thing off by killing the power strip. I leave it turned off for about a minute and start everything back up....... HALLELUJAH!

KISS.

Ditch the TV......:rockin:

I did 2 years ago. More brewin', cooking, drinking, chatting, walking, reading and socialising time.

I feel ya dude, when I used to call Comcast, there was a little note on our account to just transfer me to someone more technical, he he, it's fun to be an EAC when it comes to IT

orfy said:

KISS.

Ditch the TV......:rockin:

I did 2 years ago. More brewin', cooking, drinking, chatting, walking, reading and socialising time.

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Uh oh...not another "kill your teevee" idealist!

I don't watch any tv... except the Office. That's truly the only show I turn my tv on for anymore.

Ó Flannagáin said:

I don't watch any tv... except the Office. That's truly the only show I turn my tv on for anymore.

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That really is an amazingly good show, and not "dumbed down" like most everything else on television. It's not often that the creators of a show assume the audience is intelligent, and don't spoon feed them every joke. I hope you've seen the original English version too, it's even better.

I watch TV all day...for a living. Therefore, I seldom want to turn it on when I get home.

johnsmith098 said:

I love my DVR for that reason , power lose' is even worse!


could be he was really doing you a favor.

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DVR's kick much arse.

Except my Dish Network DVR, for some reason, requires a signal even to play back the stuff you already have on the HD. So during a really bad storm, if the signal is lost, it sits there trying to find a signal and won't let you just watch stuff off the HD. Not quite sure why in the hell they do this, but you'd think that the one time when you'd like to watch recorded stuff the most is when live TV is out.

Anyway...to the OP: no offense or anything, but...kinda callous of you to think "god" has it out for you because a few stations on your tv are out...while 700 square miles of southern California is smoldering ash right now.

Sorry, someone had to say it. Don't mean to be a downer or anything.

Of course you could go with the "poor man's DVR", Miro and your favorite torrent search engine. I get RSS feeds for the shows I like, the ads are already edited out and I toss em on a thumb drive. I keep a copy of VideoLan loaded on all the computers I regularly use.

More info in the Cnet article here...

I don't watch much TV... but thursday nights is The Thirsty Traveller on Fine Living... one of a handful of things during the week I watch religiously... the rest of the time, it's just tuned to MSNBC or the weather channel for background noise, or whatever SWMBO is watching... if I have time to sit down, it's generally either with a book or here in front of the puter...

You know, if God really hated you, you'd be picking locusts outa your teeth right now. And even that would be hard to do, because you'd also be dead! I'd say you got off easy........................................................................................................this time.

Evets said:

You know, if God really hated you, you'd be picking locusts outa your teeth right now. And even that would be hard to do, because you'd also be dead! I'd say you got off easy........................................................................................................this time.

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I suppose you're right... he coulda turned all my cider into vinegar... ok, so he was just a little miffed with me yesterday... but today's all better, Verizon installed a new dedicated jack for my DSL, and the satellite started working fine early this morning...

Evan! said:

Anyway...to the OP: no offense or anything, but...kinda callous of you to think "god" has it out for you because a few stations on your tv are out...while 700 square miles of southern California is smoldering ash right now.

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Somehow I don't think that comparison evokes feelings of guilt....

Adolphus79 said:

Most of southern California sucks anymore... that's why I got the hell out of dodge, and to the other corner of the country... it needed a good cleansing...

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Anyway, I'm rarely put off if the satellite goes out. IMO, only about 1% of the stuff on is watchable and only half of that is worth watching. I used to lose DSL and phone far more often. There was a flood here that washed out a bunch of underground lines. Verizon, in their infinite wisdom, decided to drape the replacement wires around fenceposts, along the ground, and over bushes. Every time it rained the phone and internet would go out and it di that for about 2 years.