I am "TV free" now. I cancelled my TV subscription a month ago and it took effect today.
Interestingly, the "free TV" channels are still available on my satellite receiver so I still have TV shows to watch. The free TV is higher quality than the junk that I was watching before. I just finished watching a TV show on whales and am now watching a show on artist Alex Colville. The whale show made me wish that I was by the ocean right now, smelling the sea air and listening to the movement of the water.
It has been a long time since I have spent a long time without TV. I am excited about not having all those wasted hours hanging over my head. I have a bunch of books to read and some paintings to paint and some time to spend in the garden before the house is sold.
For lunch today I ate a large dish of strawberries that ripened in my garden. Divine.
Flag
Ottawa 2009
- Balcony Babe
- This summer I moved to Ottawa to start a new job. When a visitor comes to Ottawa he or she is likely to have limited time and will want to see the major attractions: Parliament, the Canal, the Babe (Balcony type, of course). Since there are other little tidbits that are interesting, but not necessarily interesting enough to visit, I will make some short blog posts about them for your reading pleasure.
5 comments:
Enjoy the magic - and eat some strawbs for me ... In fact, eat all of them before you move!
if you ever miss TV, you can enjoy some online documentaries here:
http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/
Thanks for the link. I've been enjoying some free TV at the CTV website too. It is actually nice to watch my shows when I feel like watching, and not when the station decides to put them on.
Bell made me angry again. They canceled the signal, as I asked, but they billed me for another month. I phoned to complain and they told me the same old crap story that they always give out.
If Bell offered good customer service then I wouldn't be looking at the services offered by the other companies.
Someone we know named Eric the Red has finally paid out/cancelled his cellphone contract with Bell. They seemed to be charging him huge amounts of money monthly for very little service. If I remember correctly he is now into "Virgin"s
Telus is no better. We signed up; waited 2 weeks for the TV dude to show up, only to hear that he couldn't hook us up. He cancelled our order, but Telus sent us a $40 bill anyway. I complained, and they cancelled the charges - and then issued me a "refund" cheque for $26 for service we never got and a bill we never paid. Ch-ching! I should sign up to Telus every month!
Shaw is overpriced. It seems the company knows their prices are too high, even with their constant discount promotions for 6 months free. To get the Shaw HD TV service they make you buy a $300 box - can you believe that? You have to buy the fancy TV to see the HD, then the cable provider sticks in the knife with a $300 clunker that's already obsolete (*and can't be re-sold to others).
Sadly, Shaw is our only option for cable and internet...
Post a Comment