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**snapdragen** · 08-08-2006, 08:33 PM

And I for some unknown reason am sitting through Hellboy.....

**Veronica** · 08-09-2006, 04:14 AM

Originally Posted by SadieKate

Do you have Dish Network? Is it showing now? I swear the software goes screwy when it downloads here. Weird things happen.

No, we have DirectV and Tivo.

V.

**betagirl** · 08-09-2006, 05:01 AM

I just looked at this and saw there were over 2600 replies to this thread. Yeah, I don't think I'm going to try to catch up on what everyone said.....

**Nanci** · 08-09-2006, 05:34 AM

Beta, you're not allowed to post until you read everything from the beginning!!

Just kidding...

**DrBee** · 08-09-2006, 06:30 AM

Heh Heh Beta - okay, you only have to read the last week's worth

SK - we watched Eureka last night, too (DirectTV and Tivo).

I was at work at 6:15 this morning - starting a new experiment. This is going to be a long day. I don't sample until 2:00 pm.

**betagirl** · 08-09-2006, 06:39 AM

Considering I have these 2 major projects to do, and I've been motivated to do everything else BUT them the past 2 weeks, I suspect I just might read the whole damn thread.....

**maillotpois** · 08-09-2006, 08:03 AM

Yeah, Beta. You have to read the whole thread. It's like hazing.

**kelownagirl** · 08-09-2006, 08:05 AM

It takes me an hour to catch up every time I go away for a week!

**Nanci** · 08-09-2006, 08:14 AM

I was just reading a post from Jenny's Sister about how she hopes the family will be at the memorial ride, but it is hard for them to go there after the time spent up there searching. I can understand that. In Florida, there are official (with DOT signs) and unofficial roadside shrines for where people have died in traffic accidents. It makes me wonder why it is important for some families to memorialize the actual site where the person was last alive. You see the sites all over down here- fresh flowers, white crosses, photo albums...When I lived in MN, people didn't do that. But in Black Hills South Dakota, you'd see signs (official) on the side of the road at the scenes of fatalities, and in FLorida the signs actually have the person's name printed on them.

Just what I'm thinking about.

**Eden** · 08-09-2006, 08:18 AM

Originally Posted by SadieKate

Do you have Dish Network? Is it showing now? I swear the software goes screwy when it downloads here. Weird things happen.

Switch to Direct TV if you can - O man - they have the *best* customer service. When we were having freaky problems with our box (it kept deleting all of our channels off of the recieved list every couple of weeks) not only did I get a live customer service person, but when she couldn't figure out what was wrong she connected me with the enigineers who actually program the thing. I've never had that happen before and they actually fixed the problem.

**chickwhorips** · 08-09-2006, 08:24 AM

Originally Posted by SadieKate

Do you have Dish Network? Is it showing now? I swear the software goes screwy when it downloads here. Weird things happen.

our dish network REALLY goes screwy here. then again we are so far away we have 6 foot dishes that are almost pointed to the ground. at least we have tv.

Originally Posted by maillotpois

You have to read the whole thread. It's like hazing.

i read the whole thing and got caught up, ok so almost the whole thing, and did more scanning then reading. does that still count? was i hazed properly?

**SadieKate** · 08-09-2006, 08:28 AM

Thanks, I'll remember that. I started shopping around when it appeared that Dish wasn't going to get OLN back but then they brought it back in the nick of time.

I may still go look at rates. I hate the channel packaging. We have to pay for a bagillion channels when we use about 20. OLN, Cartoon, SciFi, etc., gotta have those.

Dish didn't work for almost a year after the installation. They replaced everything but the dish itself. They sent out a supervisor to look at everything. Still had problems. Bubba finally got up on the roof himself and pointed the dish. Voila. Amazing how actually applying the rules of azimuth, altitude and magnetic north makes a difference. Buncha of idiots that can't use a basic compass.

Of course, I was petrified the entire time because our roof has a steep pitch and I hate having loved ones up there.

**maillotpois** · 08-09-2006, 08:34 AM

Only time we ever used a dish was on our RV (rented) in France when we were trying to watch the Tour on TV while waiting for the Tour to come by. We finally had to ask these old Belgian firefighters whom we befriended to help us. The book was pretty confusing. And there was the language barrier. And the pastis. All of which made climbing on the roof of the RV and getting the signal right a little confusing at first. Once we got the system "down" (knowing which channel and setting to be on was key) it got much easier to put it up there every time we stopped the car.

People have their sat TVs facing out of their RVs there, so if you don't have an RV, you can just walk by and watch on someone else's TV. It is all very social and fun. The year before we didn't have a RV/TV, and we'd just seen the tour go by and walked back down the hill to watch on someone else's RV-TV just in time to see the infamous Beloki crash. Having just seen them live 10 minutes before that was really chilling.

**SadieKate** · 08-09-2006, 08:47 AM

Some friends who went to the Tour last year brought back the directions for a TV they bought and could never get to work. Something had obviously been lost in the translation because it kept talking about a cowgirl. That was only the start of the list of "huh?" items.

**Eden** · 08-09-2006, 08:48 AM

Originally Posted by SadieKate

Thanks, I'll remember that. I started shopping around when it appeared that Dish wasn't going to get OLN back but then they brought it back in the nick of time.

I may still go look at rates. I hate the channel packaging. We have to pay for a bagillion channels when we use about 20. OLN, Cartoon, SciFi, etc., gotta have those.

Dish didn't work for almost a year after the installation. They replaced everything but the dish itself. They sent out a supervisor to look at everything. Still had problems. Bubba finally got up on the roof himself and pointed the dish. Voila. Amazing how actually applying the rules of azimuth, altitude and magnetic north makes a difference. Buncha of idiots that can't use a basic compass.

Of course, I was petrified the entire time because our roof has a steep pitch and I hate having loved ones up there.

Yeah - I know what you mean - the hubby installed our dish. We had our Talkabouts out and he was up on the roof (he's afraid of heights too) and I was down watching for the
signal ...nothing....nothing...hailstorm!!!....nothing... then there it was!- so I started shouting stop! stop! into the radio. Poor guy - he's been loosening the dish to turn it some when it slipped down and he had to catch it and that was the exact right point to get a good signal. So there he is up on the roof in the hail, hanging on to the dish so that it doesn't move and trying to figure out how he's going to tighten it down without messing it up and answer me as I'm down there telling him to stop its perfect.

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