No More Cable

I did it!  I just got off the phone and I'm happy to say after about 9 months of searching I've finally found cheap internet and locked in the deal.  The technician is coming next Saturday to switch me over. 

My internet/cable monthly charge kept steadily going up.  I'd call periodically and they'd knock off some $$, but then it would creep back up.  No reason - I wasn't adding services, buying on-demand movies or anything.  This summer my cable went out and with traveling and everything I haven't been able to get it fixed yet.  I hooked the rabbit ears back up and found I miss the days of snow.  It's really hard to watch a TV show without the signal dropping out.  Sigh.  But on the upside, most of what I want to watch isn't on TV it's on Netflix or Hulu or other websites. 

This summer I was working up a new budget and wanted to cut my expenses down.  Dropping cable from my current provider saved me something ridiculous like $20 a month.  So I hunted and hunted and hunted and am now switching providers.  I was on the phone for awhile while they tried to hunt the deal down.  It wouldn't register on their website (was double the promotional amount) and I finally got switched over to a special department that was privy to this great deal.  Very strange, but I'm happy with the deal.  And I asked like three times - my monthly bill will be the same each month.  The rate is locked in for the first year and than just goes up slightly to a second rate the second year.  Now fingers crossed the services is the same.

It's been just under two years that I enjoyed my new cable.  Technically it's been about 18 months since it's been out this summer.  I quickly got into my groove - watching specific channels and ignoring the vast sea of other channels out there.  I miss it sometimes when I want to just crash and zone out and flip through channels and watch nothing.  But then that never left me with a good feeling afterwards. Plus the shows I wanted to watch always seemed to be on when I was out.  Internet watching is equivalent to on-demand almost, without the cost.

I'll never be one of those people who say they don't watch TV (personally it annoys me when people say that).  I've discovered and been enriched by so much televisonland provides.  Plus it's part of our culture.  I like being connected or other times, escaping into another world. 

 So my cable is cut, I'm back to life with the old rabbit ears and just bought a Roku Player to stream my Netflix that's scheduled to arrive next week.  I can't wait!