Greetings from MacSheba. Well, the move is going slower than expected. Our phone service just got turned on, but we haven’t picked up the DSL modem yet, nor is my phone jack in the basement connected to anything yet (all the other, power outlets and such, are working fine.) So, I found out, to my amazement, that my old free dialup internet service still worked! Just so I could update to you guys! Trying to browse the internet with this thing is too painful, and I don’t have much time, so let’s just go through what I have to tell you.

1) All of my furniture is in the basement, but my room is not quite finished yet. As such, I’m living in a guest bedroom on the second floor. It’s like my own hotel! Yay!

2) The Dish Network came yesterday and installed all the receivers and the dish or whatnot. Unfortunately, he put the DVR in the wrong room, so I spent this morning learning the ins-and-outs of satellite TV installation. I completed the surgery entirely successfully. If we hadn’t gotten free installation, I would have called them and asked for our money back.

My thoughts on satellite TV? The picture is much better than basic cable, but slightly worse than our old digital cable. This mostly comes out in compression artifacts. However, the channel lineup is better, and our local channels are actually clearer . Their DVR is much better than Adelphia’s, in both features (commercial skip forward!), menus (no weird banding!), and size (100 hours of recording time at highest quality!). Oh, and it’s free. Or at least, it’s the same price as any other reciever. Granted, Adelphia’s was only $7.00 a month…but that’s more than free, right?

3) And now the really bad news. Well, the bad news that isn’t the fact that I won’t be updating regularly until my room is finished. You see, they broke my entertainment center moving it in here. I had to go out and buy a new one. Which means I have to put it together. If anyone remembers the utter hell I went through assembling the old one (hint: check the Jux news archive for October 2002), you know that I’m not a happy camper.

Luckily, I have a girlfriend to help me this time. We’ll see if she speeds the process up.