http://exileinparadise.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] exileinparadise.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] lesliepear 2005-01-28 02:07 pm (UTC)

Cable cable cable

[livejournal.com profile] keri80 and I had a dish for a while.
We hated it.

You see, Keri watches a LOT of TV... and the dish would go out if there was a trace of rain within 100 miles (it seemed)... damn near EVERY day, we would get 'Unable to receive satellite'... go look at a weather map, and there might be rain miles and miles away.

And, if I actually bothered to sit down to watch TV, it would invariable be at the moment the dish went blind.

We called the dish people, and they said 'just put a garbage bag over the dish' to keep water from sheeting on it and mis-reflecting the signal. What a dumb hillbilly suggestion.

I put the dish *IN* the garbage bag and ordered cable.
Costs more, a few less channels, but it works.
And I don't have a huge garbage bag hanging from the side of my expensive house.

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