Yesterday I got a letter from Time-Warner Cable. They want me to add phone service to digital TV and internet, starting at just $99.99. It isn't the letter I expected from them really, since two weeks ago the cut us off for a bill they say we owe them from '06 in Cincinnati. I told them in January to prove it, and now a good 45 days later, they have still not done such. Two weeks ago tomorrow their 'credit division' turned off our services. I complained, since they hadn't proven the debt within the required 30 days, not that they cared, and I was told that even if I paid, I'd have to wait till Monday before they would have a person in the office that could turn it back on, since it wasn't customer service that turned it off. Adding to that, the possibility that they might d/c me from the pole before then, requiring an extra $50 reconnection fee.
I called Dish Network and got set up a mere 2 days later, Sunday evening we had the Olympics on in time to watch the end of the Mens' Hockey game. Monday, I gave the cable boxs and the modem back to TW at the local office, and in the time that passed since they decided to send me a letter telling me I am a valued customer and can add phone service to my package. How fucking stupid do they think I am? Yeah, I pay for my HD now, but damn it, you pay for tap water too, because the free water at the river would probably give you dysentery and nobody wants that. I get a lot more HD channels this way, though we no longer get the local WB in HD. It's the damnedest thing.
We were able to get our internet through AT&T, we have our cell phones through them, but apparently you have to have TV with them as well to make a bundle, which isn't available here. But it works, and TW can suck it.
I have to admit at least that today was a good day, started out well, though I probably should go to the store and get groceries. I am out of breakfast food for tomorrow, and I really ought to do something about that.
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