Is it so difficult?

I froze for a couple of hours while the heat came up to temp, all to be here for the cable dude when he delivered my cable box Friday morning. He even tried to cancel at 8:30pm on Thursday because he was overbooked. Finally at 9:30am he arrived. The poor bastard had driven here from Burlington Vermont. He gets out of the van labelled DirectTV and I knew this was not going to be a happy morning. I thought we were getting cable and not a dish. He walks around the house with a thing that measures angle and signal connectivity...he goes up on the roof...he walks up and down the hill and then he comes into the house with the news. There are 4 trees in the way of the signal. It turns out that the dish has to point out to the southern sky, it also has to be at a 32 degree angle and all sort of other technical crap.

The dude apologized profusely and said that his supervisor would be out next week to see if there is anything that can be done to get cable/dish/satellite to work for us. At this rate it is going to be spring before I get my TV hooked up!