Cutting cables

We cancelled our satellite TV service. It leaves us with no live TV for the moment, but we never watch anything live except when I watch the occasional football, basketball, or hockey game. (We get our local news from a newspaper — digitally, of course — and our national and international news from online newspapers and news services.) But given “sports in the time of Covid,” with truncated or suspended seasons, cancelled games and the generally “asterisked” notations that will populate standings and records going forward, it hasn't been much of a loss.

This is the inside of a DVR that is so old that the satellite service initially didn't want it back. Rep on the phone said don't return the DVR. Then I received an email that said return the DVR and the return instructions online indidate that I have to return the LNBF from the roof installation, too. Sigh. So I'll have to go up on the roof later.

“Bonus” from inside this DVR: Unknown bug (Order “Blattodea”: Cockroaches & Termites — gulp).
September update. “‘Frassed, Blattella nymph shed...’
Hard to tell species from a shed, but might be germanica if found indoors.”

Looking back
  1 year ago: “Tennessee Brew Works [Travel day ETSOOI]”
 2 years ago: No post
 3 years ago: “Seemannia sylvatica”
 4 years ago: No post
 5 years ago: “Uninspired”
 6 years ago: “New growth”
 7 years ago: “Saint David”
 8 years ago: “Back to a “routine”? [SOOC]”
 9 years ago: “Three rows in a row!”
10 years ago: “Thom’s Jerrys”

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[Mags]

That's terrible! I've had a digital antenna for years and get 36 channels. Enough to find something to watch and if not, there's always a good DVD I can pop in. =)

[Thom Mitchell]

@marlboromaam Cutting the satellite cable saves $85–95 monthly. We're getting Disney+ for free (for a year through our cell phone provider), Acorn ($5/month), and hulu ($1.99/month promotional rate). We got Disney+ *just* to watch “Hamilton,” which we've watched three times so far. Acorn and hulu have enough titles that interest us for the amount of television we're watching right now. Of course, anything and everything can change, as we've learned in the last year.

[Esther Rosenberg]

Neat shot