When you live in the boondocks, like I now do, services that don’t work well really piss you off. I assumed that my issue in trying to buy a pay-per-view movie from DirecTV had more to do with the lousy DirecTV HD-DVR they gave me than anything else, as I was getting signal on the regular channels — but no!

I live in a coastal community and we’re kinda socked in by fog. There was no fog last night, when the pay-per-view fiasco occurred however. My wife wanted to see Sex and the City- the Movie and I figured this was a lot easier than downloading it over our excellent but limited local co-op internet service. I figured wrong.

Regular DirecTV service worked fine, but the pay-per-view, no. This morning the technician on the phone had me reboot the receiver and now we can get no service at all. Seems the heavy fog is stopping us from getting whatever base-level of data we need to allow any function. Now we’re just gonna have to wait for it to clear…

I knew heavy rain would do this but man, oh man, do I miss my evil old cable provider.