I came home from work last night and while I was having my food, I sat down to watch an episode of "House". The screen kept jumping, freezing and the soundtrack kept skipping, just like a pirated or dirty (as in smudged) DVD. I tried a few other channels and things seemed ok. I though nothing of it, must have been the recent weather, although the worst of the wind was last weekend and it was fine after that. I then left TV for a bit to piss about on the computer, playing some online poker (took some bad beats but still up overall) and checking out Twenty's revitalised blog. Before I went to bed I switched off the TV which still seemed ok.
This morning I came downstairs, made some coffee and toast and switched on the box. No satellite signal. Bit strange but ties in with last night. Tried a few things, changed and reset factory settings, switched it off and on again (always first port of call) checked all scart, phone and dish connections. No joy. Then I rang the folks at Sky and then he went through a few other technical checks and resets and still nothing. So now I have to wait for one of their engineers to come out to check the dish. I could get a ladder and have a look myself but I don't want to end up like Rod Hull. So now I am left with no TV until I don't know when.
The thing is this does not upset me like I thought it would. The only thing I might miss that would in anyway piss me off is the rugby at the weekend and I could always go out for that. I have a box set of the The Wire (Season 4) to make my way through plus the aforementioned online gambling. I have a pile of books by my bed and an itunes menu of songs that I need to revisit.
Do I really need the TV. Should I cancel my Sky subscription. This is something I think is well worth considering over the coming days.
7 comments:
Yeah, it's an interesting point. Arthur Bell always referred to TV as the Devil Box and the older I get, the more I'm inclined to agree. Lately, Sky is particularly bad with shite American cop shows (Fuck you Horatio!)and tedious 'reality'* arse repeated in an endless cycle of death.
In the immortal words of Why Don't You?", "Switch off the TV set and do something less boring instead..."
* This, of course, does not include the excellent Deadliest Catch which has inspired me to become a Bering Sea crab fisherman. As we speak, I'm saving like fuck for a boat and Marc has already agreed to become my first crew member. Watch this apace.
Marc,
we also lost our sky signal at the weekend. I blamed the snow.
weird how we both had the same problem. Incidently I am really getting into "House" too. Its pretty good.
To be tv free for a week hasn't bothered me purely because I've been over in Bloody england for the past 2 weeks. Poms are annoying
Paul, we had none of your snow down about these parts, but I was awoken but some seriously strong winds on saturday, so that may have lossened the dish a bit.
House is good, but a little bit annoying. The way they go on sometimes I think anyone could be a doctor. "So what has he got?" cue three fuckers reaming off lists of diseases, getting it wrong, feeding the poor sap the wrong medicine, making his symptoms worse until House sees a mouse scurrying across the floor and realises yer man has the plague or something. However, I think Hugh Laurie is very good.
Dealiest Catch is, well, deadly. Best show on TV at the moment. Those guys are hard as fuck. Not sure though Stephen that I would want to spend 50hrs non-stop on deck in -45°C temperatures, with waves bigger than hills in Laois. I can see the romanticism of it though. At the moment I want to be a cowbo. Not one of yer John Wayne type mugs though, I want to be a laconic, depressive, horse whispering hombre out of a Cormac McCarthy novel. All I need is a time machine and some chaps. And a spanish dictionary.
Now back to my poker.
Ok Marc, sign me up - I'm still well short for the boat. No Brokeback though ok?
Did you 2 see the episode where captain phil nearly died. A blood clot went through his heart and into his lung and then he coughed it out.
Marc I suggest you would make an excellent cowboy, in the style of jack palance in city slickers.
Captain Phil is tough as fuck. They all are.The funniest one was when the Time Bandit crew were in port for Halloween or something, went on the piss and the captain (can't remeber his name, wears the leather jacket with the american flag on the back) left his wallet on the boat. He goes back to get it and whn trying to jump on to the ship he missed and felled down between the quay and the boat.
I love deadliest catch - but let's not delude ourselves about any of our potential aptitude for such a career. I would guess that the job interview mainly consists of how well you can take a punch to the stomach after drinking boilermakers for six hours.
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