We pressed the button

Yep! We made the switch. In two weeks, we will once again be At&t (well, I guess we were Bellsouth back then, but you know what I mean).

Someone told me this is the problem with the way Time Warner has a monopoly on cable around here. That is true, and I guess a dish is the only answer to that monopoly. I am not as nervous about a dish: My parents have had a dish at their house since I was in eighth grade or so . . . In fact, I INSTALLED it (or, at least I wired it). Way back when they were so far out in the country that cable tv did not come that far, we had a big dish. It required a tuner AND a descrambler, and the first one had a numeric keypad on which I had to enter the subscription codes. It was quite a rack of equipment. Years later, they converted to a small dish.

Cable tv finally made it out to their place, and they went with it for a while. But they are back on a dish right now and loving it. So I guess we will give it a try. So long, TWC.