Just went out and taped a snow brush to a pole and cleaned my TV dish.
We have been without the NBC station from Madison on our cable all day. The message on the screen says all sorts of things that could be the cause, like a branch in front of the satellite dish or inclement weather affecting the dish, and what to try to fix it. Then there is a number to call Dish or go to their website. We do not have Dish; we have cable… very bad cable… like the only Charter system in the whole state that does not have access to all of that cool modern stuff that they love to advertise in their commercials. We haven’t had a new station added in 10-12 years, and in that time we’ve lost two. The equipment is so outdated that when Mr. S talks to the workers who are fixing the lines somewhere, they shake their heads at how bad the stuff is. Dinosaurs. I am sure today’s problem involves one of the dishes that Charter has in town to receive signals that they transmit to us over wires, and it has since come back in this past hour.
Mr. S is on the cable committee for the city, and competition is coming and is even here for some people who live near the underground fiber optic cables. It is taking forever. Meanwhile, he keeps calling Charter when there is a problem, and they always want to send a technician to our house… every… single… time. They also say that they haven’t received calls from anyone else about any outage. I tell Mr. S to tell them that’s because we are the only customer of theirs left in the city. So far he hasn’t used that line.
