And Now It's January, They Tell Me
Hello. I have one more day off before I have to go back to work. Isn't it funny how when I was first sick with the Crohn's -- three years ago right now -- all I wanted to do was go back to work? Now all I want to do is sleep late.
My latest annoyance is that, come February, our cable system is going to eliminate showing all non-HD channels they have HD channels for. So when you go to channel 2, for example, which is CBS, you're gonna get HD whether you want it or not. Now, I have an HD TV here in the family room, and an HD cable box, but I NEVER watch TV in HD. Why is that? Because once I got it all set up, I discovered that on an HD broadcast, the closed captions are too small too read. Which wasn't a big deal when I had an alternative. Now it's going to be a big deal. I mean, it's not as if I don't have the TV on all the time. Anyway, I just talked to the cable company -- we're the ones that lost the Food Network and HGTV on January 1, not the ones who were in danger of losing Fox -- and explained my situation to the lovely young man on the phone.
I did many errands today, including a short mall visit with the Sibs, who got her first look at my colored hair and liked it very much. I can't imagine how many people will comment on it at school on Monday, but after a day or two it will be over, I hope. I'm wondering if I need highlights to soften it a little, but the Sibs says it's good.
I'm reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell, an interesting read, and curiously, another small print thing with me. I bought the book a couple of years ago, but I couldn't read it because the print was too small, no matter what glasses I wore. So I gave it to the library. But I just got it the other day as an ebook, so the print is my standard setting, and quite readable for me. Oy, the accommodations! Did I mention I even got a catalog the other day with stuff in it to help you open doors, and tie your shoes, and all that other stuff that people need help with when they *ahem* mature? I just hope I never start wearing the velcro shoes. Then they can put me in the home.
Food shopping tomorrow, with major couponage.
Was it a Golden Violin catalog?!? Hahaha too much QVC watching for me, methinks. I liked Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell, though it started off somewhat slowly for me. It's got REALLY teeny print, though, so I don't blame you for getting it in another form.
ReplyDeleteThe HD thing would bug me. What's bugging me right now about HD is that the channels make NO SENSE. HGTV is channel 44 on the regular cable but 740 on the HD channels. Funnily enough, that's the only channel I know the number for in HD. I don't get why they couldn't give 744 to HGTV so it was just a matter of remembering to add the 7. I *think* Food Network is 745, but it's 28 on the regular cable. See?? CONFUSING. Bahhh.
PS -- I would die dead if I lost Food Network AND HGTV. One or the other, maybe, though I am obsessed with House Hunters, especially the international version. We did just get BBC America in HD, which pleased me to no end.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your cable provider. I eventually got to the point where I changed providers (after 25 years!) because the last item on their goals is serving the customers, particularly the, ahem, mature ones.
ReplyDeleteI don't know whether you watch CBS Sunday Morning, which is where I first heard this:
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/01/04/100104taco_talk_mead
It kind of ties in with yesterday's post, although I notice that CBS hasn't made up its mind yet either.