Lots of stuff to cover over the weekend, so here we go.
Saturday I went with Michael to a Kyusho Jitsu seminar in Glendale led by Gary Boaz. There was definitely some interesting stuff in the seminar. Kelli unfortunately felt the brunt of that new knowledge this weekend as I played around with some of the things we learned. She hates me now.
Sunday was change my address day and do my taxes day.
Progressive, who currently carries my auto insurance is now asking $740 for 6 months to insure me. That’s a 15% rate increase for no reason. Geico has quoted me $661. Guess where I’ll be going?
Did my taxes for last year and it looks like I’ll be paying $152 federal and getting back $220 from the state. Pretty much perfect.
While trying to move over my utilities, I once again looked over my Cox bill and compared it to DirecTV. While Kelli has heard of other people’s bad experiences, they are half the price of Cox for the same services. I’m not sure why I should continue on with them. I could buy my own DVR and loose $10/mo right there and turn in my second box which I don’t really use shaving off $6/mo (I should have done this long ago), but that still only brings my bill down to $68 a month instead of the $50 or so I’d be paying DirecTV. $18 a month for essentially no difference is not a good deal.
It’s really annoying when people don’t have forms online for moving their service to a new address. But nevertheless, Qwest should be coming out on the 27th along with Cox to get things transfered over. This page might be down for a day or two in the interim. No one raised any flags about not being able to get DSL in our new crib, but that doesn’t mean it’s not the case. If it is, I might be down for a couple of days until I can work something out with hosting. Hopefully it won’t be an issue though.
“A busy, but EAST weekend” ???
DirecTV is pretty fantastic. My parents got it and I was very impressed when I was visiting over the holidays. Since you already go the DSL route, there is no real reason to stay with the sucktastic service that Cox offers. I’d do the DirecTV goodness. And of course, it’s cheaper, which is always a plus.
By the way, how much is your DVR? My landlord ordered mine when they ordered our Cox service, and claim it’s like $24/mo. I know he is lying, and will of course demand to see the bill before paying this, but just curious how much yours runs you.
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I pay $10 a month for the DVR and $6 for DVR service. How they get off charging $6 a month for access to a list of programming that they need to maintain anyway is beyond me, but there it is. But it’s certainly not $24 a month. I have had it for over a year and half, so the rates may have increased, but I think they would have increased my rates as well.
I’ve seriously considered building a MythTV box instead of screwing around with a PVR. Now that I’ve got the linux box just sitting there, maybe it’s time to get a capture card or two and set it up as a Myth backend.
I have been using DTV for years now and have had no complaints. All digital channels…the Tivo service rocks….only thing is I have heard that they compress the channels more than they should but who cares right? Until I got my 46 inch I never noticed any issues with quality and that is pretty much standard across the board for all cable/sat providers.
Michael
BTW…expect to be smacked on kyusho points during class this week…fun times!