Guilty Pleasure

Who would have thought that battling MediaCom for 2 months would result in a new guilty pleasure.  Let me tell you the long and boring story: At the end of September our internet pretty much went kaputz. We spent a lot of time on the phone to get a service call, then another. It was that second "cable guy" that informed me it was a problem with the outside lines and it was something they were aware of, so he couldn't really do much for us. He did some monkeying around and we had a snail slow connection for about 2 days. That was when the outside crew came and I got to talk to that guy. He informed me that it was a problem with the main "feeder" line that got damaged a month or two ago. MediaCom knew about it, but it was a third party repair and had no idea when it would be fixed, but "hopefully soon" was the answer he gave. Their tinkering around gave us a slighter faster, slightly more consistent connection for an additional 2 days. So, Imagine my frustration when during week two of my online classes, our internet completely quits. We get nothing. Not even a slow, intermittent connection. Zilch. Yup, I was so excited.  I got my homework finished and submitted between school and at my parents house.  My dependency on Netflix for entertainment has now been interrupted. I was forced to watch DVDs or network TV.  We use the antenna, so sometimes network isn't a great reception, and it really is just network TV. The same weekend as our internet went out completely, the DVD player also decided it was done. Granted it was probably 5+ years old, but c'mon, the same weekend as everything else went out??  Nick did some tinkering with the extra DVD player I have in the craft room. It kind of worked. Sadly, it was not the fix I was hoping for. Since I abhor having to change around wires to watch things on TV, I was not happy with the set up.  Network TV it was! Monday evening Nick came home from work and I made supper. As per usual, we ate while watching TV. Typically we would watch Family Guy on Netflix, but.....what to watch on TV? I didn't know what was on anymore. We turned to our old standby channel 29.  Huh, Big Bang Theory. My dad loves it. We settled on it. It was good. I laughed out loud at a TV show. And how can you not really? After BBT was over I was tidying up and then flipped channels. Nothing on TV Monday nights...of course. Until I flipped to channel 11. At first I was discouraged that it was another singing/reality/competition show.  But then I realized it was acapella.  I decided to give it a try. The Sing Off is totally my guilty pleasure. I am totally a Pentatonix fan. Ive watched week after week Pentatonix is awesome and another group goes home.  Yup, totally a guilty pleasure.  I have also become quite a fan of BBT. I watch it as often as I remember. That may be my next TV on DVD purchase.

To wrap up the internet saga as well, our Internet connection was icky starting the middle of Sept. We finally had it fixed the middle of November. It was early October when it just totally went out. I have had several conversations with MediaCom. Nick has a working computer again (another totally long story for another time) and we got our MediaCom bill. As promised they credited our account for Sept when it was acting up, credited all of October and the part of Nov until it was fixed. They owe us $30, which of course we will just apply to next months bill.  At least they made good on their claims of not charging us for service we weren't getting. And now, I watch TV that isn't on Netflix.At least for two more weeks.