I'm going to be stuck in the house all week, except for Wednesday. I'll be waiting for the exterminator and the cable guy, except for Wednesday. The only times I'll be allowed out will be to do things I don't want to do, like babysitting and delivering newspapers, except for Wednesday. You read about why the exterminator is coming in my last blog. Now I'll tell you why the cable guy is coming. Due to the vast savings, we had our phone transfered from Telus to Shaw. (Hey telus, go stick your $5.00 fee, for absolutely nothing, where the sun don't shine.) As a little bonus Shaw offered us a years worth of digital cable for a reduced price. We thought, "Cool, it's on sale." and said, "OK." So Friday the cable guy came out and installed the digital cable box. Just before he left he handed me my new remote contol and within 2 seconds had explained how it worked. Then he said, "OK?" and I said, "Not really but I guess I'll figure it out." Today was a busy day for me and I wasn't going to be able to relax and watch my favourite shows so I tried to set my VCR to tape five hours of programming but I couldn't get it to work properly so I phoned Shaw and the nice lady put me through to a technician who told me I had to set the VCR to tape only channel 3 and set the cable box to the channel I wanted to tape. That's nice but what if I want to tape 2 shows that are on different channels (at different times) and he says, "Oh, you can't do that without being home to change the channel on the cable box." So then I asked how I'm supposed to watch one show and tape another that's on at the same time and he says, "You can't." So now the cable guy has to come back to remove the useless digital cable box. I also discovered that if the bloody box isn't turned on your VCR will tape five hours of static. Needless to say I am more than a little miffed. Oh well, there's always Wednesday but you'll have to wait until Thursday to read about that.