TV is Back

For the first time in a week we were able to watch the news on TV. It's the same old stuff - massacres in churches or schools, weather disasters and politics. The news hardly changes at all, only the locations.

DirectV spent about 3 hours at the house yesterday setting up the satellite and receiver equipment. I was disappointed that the programming has changed to where we no longer get the east/west feeds for the major networks. That enabled us to get shows earlier from the east coast so that benefit is gone. Also, I have a problem with the quality of the broadcasts and I'm not sure if that is related to the new TV setup or not. When our new set was delivered, it wasn't really tuned up since we had no TV reception. I will call the place where we purchased it today to see if I can get a technician out to fine tune the TV. I paid too much for the set to settle for inferior quality of the picture. I know one thing though, and that is that we got our TV back in time to watch the US Open Golf Championship this weekend.

The heat continues as we reached 116 here yesterday. It seems like summer is really here so we will have to adjust again to the hot summers that we were able to avoid for the last 6 years or so. It's nice that we have the pool now, although 116 is almost even too hot to swim. We are looking forward to having a few days off together after Josie works today and Monday. She gets a rare 3 days off in a row so it better include signing papers for the house and getting our furniture moved into the new house...