Directivo

So it turns out that my landlord is, in his own words, "Not inclined to let me out of my lease."
"Well," I almost replied, "I'm 'inclined' to punch you in the face, but I'm not going to, am I?"

In order to console myself and make being at home more bearable, I decided to get Directv. One of the main reasons for doing so was to be able to watch the Red Sox this year, and not only the games that FOX5 wants to show plus the occasional ESPN game of the week. Connie wisely pointed out that if I was able to watch the Red Sox, she might never see me again. (Six moooooonths out of every year). So what did I do? I got Tivo, too! This way I can live a semi-normal life and watch baseball when I have spare time! (And fast forward through commercials and manager conferences and crap!)

So on Tuesday, while I watched Scrubs on Connie's Directv, I ordered my programming. 150 channels, every MLB game this season, and, for 90 days, all of the premium movie channels for free! At around 10:15 am on Thursday (well within the 8:00 am to 12:00 pm window they promised) the installer guy showed up and installed everything without incident. Or so Ian tells me, he was gracious enough to be there for the installation.

It's a little pathetic how happy this has made me. I'm giddy. I watched a crappy split-squad Red Sox exhibition game against the Diamondbacks on NESN and I almost wept.

It's slightly overwhelming, in that now I feel like I have some kind of obligation to watch everything that interests me. Which is hard because I have about 150 channels. Any suggestions of cable programs I should catch? It's been a WHILE since I've had any pay channels. I've already watched "The Core" and "Emmanuelle vs. Dracula" so all of you that were going to chime in with those suggestions, you'll have to think of something else.

Whoopeeeee!