Misi and Krissy have mail coming -- mom's is delayed. Brian is good. I'm too dizzy to think straight let alone stand so he went and mailed them for me. Was gonna try to make Krissy something else but failed. That's why mom's is delayed -- working on something else. Might still make Krissy something to make up for crappy thing she's getting now, but got sick of not mailing her something given it was combo b-day / Christmas and her bday was in erm... September I think?
They offered us $100 lower rent to renew our lease which is up in February. Guess they're not tearing this place down for at least a year then, yay! If we'd gone to month to month it would have gone up like $200 as that's the going rate now. Only catch is they're now charging water too but still lower if what they quote for water is true -- don't think they have individual water meters so we gotta talk to them.
Senator Kerry suggested TW and Fox go to mediation -- TW said yes, Fox said no. Ha. Guess we know who really wants to work this out and who is just being greedy jerks. Fox is being sued in Florida. They're the network who plays football games. Gators are pissed that they'll not have their game played locally and Fox won't budge / no one else can air it.
Scottish
shortbread:) You are looking at the end of my current affair with
naughty food. Now onto veggies and soup and fibre and protein:)
There's a show here in Canada called XWeighted. Sort of like Biggest Loser but not anywhere near the scale. (pun that I didn't get until rereading:) Actually it is not like Biggest Loser at all now that I think of it. It is a show about losing weight. In January they are starting six month "at home challenge" I think I will sign up on January 9th :) Sound like a plan?
Today is the Big Draw. I am headed to the QE11 Foundation office later to get the winning ticket drawn. Exciting! Thanks to all who donated and to everyone else, thanks for bearing with all my fund raising beseeching.
But first I have to get my hair cut:)
Take your money out of the huge banks! (A video)
I tried a larger format size for this photo, but it is still fuzzy. I'm beginning to think it is the camera. It seems to work just fine on the photos I take of my cakes, but there is more light there. All the photos I have taken with my old camera work just fine in smaller formats. And it worked fine on those outdoor nighttime shots. May just have to stick to my old camera for indoor shots. I'll try to remember to take another shot of the Christmas cactus tomorrow with the old camera and see what happens.
Previously I'd written about Time Warner's Roll Over or Get Tough campaign. Well at the time I'd written they didn't really explain what channels we were in danger of losing. National stories were sort of just going by whatever they'd heard -- I think based on whatever New York had been at risk of losing. Now the Roll Over or Get Tough has added a enter your zip code feature, so you can see just what channels may will be lost in your area if they "Get Tough". To recap -- some networks are telling TW something like eh ya know, what we get paid from you now + what we make from ads, well that's not enough. We want to raise rates about 300%. We went through this earlier this year, or was it last? with Viacom networks. Customers keep getting pissed about the uber uber high rate increases so TW was like, eh yeah not so sure about this one since they'd obviously just jack up our rates to cover it.
Anyway, here's what I find interesting.... This is the list of channels here:
- KCOP
- KTTV
- Fuel
- Fox Reality Channel
- Speed Channel
- Fox Soccer Channel
- Fox Sports World Espanol
- FX
- Prime Ticket (Fox Sports West 2)
Do you see a trend? For those who don't -- I'll help you out, KCOP and KTTV are local Fox affiliates. Fuel is owned by Fox. Speed is owned by Fox. I'm wondering where Fox News is? I have two theories.
1. They figured that if they listed threatened to take Fox News away from Los Angeles not only would people NOT complain, they'd tell TW "yes, please" given that usually if they mention us it's to talk about how we're the devil Liberals ruining the country, etc.
2. The reason they want to charge more for these other channels is they aren't making enough in ad revenue. Even in LA, Fox News is making a killing in ad revenue so taking it off air would kill it. But hey, they can play with the other networks -- even plain old Fox and not really care. Why else threaten to remove pretty much all of your networks here, except for that one, unless we pay up?
Now -- I need sleep. Was gonna sleep earlier in the day but my cat went psycho jumping at the window so hard I thought she'd break it. Dunno why. She saw a cat she always sees and never goes psycho over. -- worst she does usually over the dogs, cats, squirrels is hiss at them, but no she was full on psycho charging at the windows. She was also taking swipes at Lister. Hiding from us. Dunno wtf got into her today but she just went crazy. Now she's calmed down. It was like she'd turned into her momma cat (the craziest, meanest cat ever) for an hour.
Still gotta mail stuff (it's packaged up) and still trying to figure out when to see Avatar -- but between Brian's working his vacation away and me sleeping screwy hours through it, who knows when we'll do either. I always sleep worse when he's not working. I think because he keeps worse sleep hours too and our sleep hours overlap more! He tells me that if he's in the bed, he notices he wakes me up a lot. Heh. I swear those 50s sitcoms and their twin beds make sense. We have separate blankies... he steals mine. He steals my pillows, though he always said he didn't like pillows -- so when he realized he liked mine, we bought him some -- still took mine. Pushes me to the edge of the bed. Etc. *yawn* he's off eating lunch, I shall go claim the bed!
