its finally here. Verizons men are working at my house installing what is said to be the fastest cable TV. I have not had cable for about 4 years now (yea i know what your thinking, how can you NOT watch TV?) but that is just it, TV takes over peoples lives and being a couch potato and gainign 15 lbs. is not exactly what i want/need.
Last night, i barely slept, kept tossing and turning and totally forgetting that Verizon was coming this morning sometime between 8 and 11. I really hoped that they would come at 8, sicne i have to be at work at 930 or so. And figuring when Verizon gives a time period that they would come, it would probably be later then on time.
I woke up a few minutes before 8 and told my brother, Philip, to grab me a stickie and sharpie. I wrote “Verizon, please knock or call, bell doesnt work,” then handed the note to my brother and told him to go stick it on the outside front door. This way i could get some extra sleep and at least get a heads up on when the men would be here. As Philip opened the door the Verizon guy was standing right there. I yelled from my room that i will be down in a second. As i quickly got out of bed, threw on some sweats, i hurried downstairs to let the man in. I thought i might have a mild case of ESP, prediciting he was there. I showed him where the two TVs where and that those would be the ones that he would be installing FIOS TV on. He then said that since we have a HD Plasma TV in the family room, it would be better that we got the HD Cable box vs. the standard box. I figured “well duh!” i then called my dad and made sure that this was ok. Sure enough it was, however there would be an extra cost of $5, “no big deal” he said. Then he told me to make sure that he also installed the HD box upstairs in his room. This came to my surprise because my father has an old TV, probably one from the 1970s if not older. go figure. surprisingly my dad told me he is going to be getting a new HD TV in his room and that the HD Cable box would be needed. I thought “well thats cool, my dad doesnt like to tell me things.” (Further, in my house, we only have 2 TVs. Growing up having TV in our bedrooms was unheard of. It would keep my brothers and myself up all night watching the tube and not studying, causing bad grades. My parents were very strict on grades and spending too much time watching some of the pointless and unintellectual things on TV.)
It has been over 2 hours and Verizon is still here. I know it is worth the wait but i need to go to work! Who would have thought i want to go to work this badly on a Friday but let me tell you why… TODAY IS PAYDAY!
More to come on the verdict of the new Verizon FIOS Cable TV.