urbanblitz

You’re probably wondering why I even have an analog tv.  And why I haven’t made the switch to cable. I have crossed that divide a few years ago.  I have the whole shabam — cable, internet, VoIP for a grand total of about $137 a month and about $1600 a year.   A pricey luxury, I must say.    But when I first signed up, I had opted not to get another cable box for my 2nd tv.   I saw no point to pay more considering all the taxes that would be attached to the additional box.

So like my other fellow Americans, I requested for a coupon for a DTV coupon back in December of 2008.  Luckily, I got my coupon before they ran out of money.  And the games began.  All I did was research the best DTV converter box to purchased.  In the end I decided on the Zenith DTT901 which was sold out at pretty much most of the Radio Shacks online.  I was on a mad dash to get this box before the change over on Feb 15th.  Armed with my new box, I was ready to cross over to digital tv.  But no!  This change was delayed till June 12th.  Oh wells!  

Setting up the box was easy.  I ran into a little snag though with reception. I quickly made a call to Zenith who had informed me that I might need to get an amplified antenna.  But that I wouldn’t know until they move the channels over the digital divide.   So what’s the point of this story.  Well places like Radio Shack didn’t learn anything from the initial DTV converter box incident. Because I can’t seem to find one store with an amplified antenna. Did DTV2009 anticipate that the change over is costing each household at least $70+ for a converter box and antenna.  I think not.  

Despite the delay, people have still been ill prepared for this change.  How do you know which is the right antenna for your situation.  Just absolutely frustrating, that’s all I have to say about the matter.

It’s exactly how I feel without my camera. On Sunday, at Monkeytown the shutter release on my camera died. And I feel like the chicken without a head.

I’ve realized that I really have a big pet peeve about pocket dialing. So this evening I got a call from a friend I don’t normally hear from. So I picked up to only find out that I was pocket dialed. Can I say WTF! And have you heard about just locking your phone. For god sakes this is the second time this person has pocket dial me. I think it’s only because my name is in the latter part of the alphabet, hence I’m usually my number gets dialed by accident. Ack! I just had to rant about that for a second.

The Virginia Tech shooting was very tragic. But it seems these massacres seem to be more common these days. This morning, AC asked if I was at uni during the hostage situation. It was over a decade ago, when a guy took over one of the lecture room. I was actually in the Lecture Center (LC) at the time for class. I remember I was wondering why the class was so empty. And being evacuated from the LC through library entrance. Thank god no one was killed. But I didn’t think of calling my family to tell them I was okay. The thought had never occurred to me at the moment. Or the severity of situation at that time just didn’t hit me. But I think it was because I just didn’t want my family to worry. I know it was very silly of me.

Aye! Yesterday, I got a piece of snail mail. It’s really not as slow as the pony express. It only took about a week from Cali to NY. But was definitely a sweet surprise. I haven’t corresponded with CL via postal mail in a few years. In a way, I think the cell phone had replaced our archaic form of communication. Only because we use to spill the beans before the letter arrived.

This morning I stopped by Duane Reade to buy Advil Cold & Sinus for my cold.  Only to find out that I need to bring a card to the pharmicist.  If this is an OTC med, why do I have to sign a log to get simple cold medicine.  I didn’t have to do this year.  It’s all because of the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act 2005.  I blame the kiddies that were getting high on cold mediciation.  Some people actually take medication because they’re sick.  Okay, I’m really grouchy when I’m sick.  Did I tell you I hate being sick.

Whose idea was it to move up daylight savings time.  Definitely among one of the worse decisions made by this administration. Seriously, the reason why daylight savings time later in March is people’s bodies can adjust to season change.  Instead, we were all abruptly woken up on Sunday.  I felt like I lost the whole day.  I turned around and it was already 2pm.  Freaking hell. Then this morning, I couldn’t log onto my computer because windows was corrupted.  They were only able to roll back my computer to Friday morning. What the hell!!!!!  And I’m just getting started. My clock on my computer at work kept changing.  Every time I set it to the correct time.  It would move it forward.  *Grumble*  Damn, daylight savings time.

People wonder why I preferred to be plugged into my MP3 player.  It’s not just to block the white noise of my morning commute. But to avoid the lunancy of the mentally unstable on the train platform.

This morning, I looked out the window and there was snow. OMG snow. There were these little white flurries floating from the sky. My first thought was that I wasn’t wearing the right shoes. I should have definitely wore the rain boots this morning. Immediately, I imed my friends about the snow. Some didn’t believe me. While others ran to the window. Perhaps we will have a winter this year. Of course, the sun immediately rolled in and the snow was gone. There will be no white blanket on the floor today.

I never thought it was possible to max out your block list on Yahoo Messenger. But it was very possible, because I did. But before I go off on a tangent, let me get back to original point of my post. I hit my limit on movies in queue on Netflix. Apparently, you can only have 500 movies in queue. Isn’t that crazy. Why do I have 500 movies on my list. It just ludicrous how much they charge charge for a movie ticket these days. Plus I also add current movies out to my queue so they automatically move up my list when they are available on DVD. I maxed out my list, so now I sit and wait.