Shiny, New #1: Our water heater died yesterday. Of course it did - it was a Friday. I think it's the "full ride at college scholarship" option for plumbers' kids. The water heater was old and so it's no sadness to have a more efficient shiny new one -- but the sand they removed from the old one could only have come from the work the city contractors did in our backyard a while back that had uncovered pits of 10+ feet deep. Not good when you have a blind dog who likes to run.

Shiny, New #2: Digital cable with all the HD geegaws. I didn't post about it last week, but the old t.v. I inherited from my grandfather finally gave up the ghost so we are now the proud owners of a HDTV LCD flatscreen. Damn but those things weigh nothing; what a change from tube televisions. Alas, our crappy cable signal, which we'd been thinking about upgrading to digital anyway, sucks even more on an HDTV. They don't tell you that when you're shopping. So...I bit the bullet and worked my way through the Time Warner Cable page, which, btw, will never win any awards for usablity. I suspect that is on purpose.

Using equal parts new math and alchemy, Time Warner has decided that the bill will not require an extra lung each month. I haven't told Joe yet that I ordered the package that includes all the movie channels. Once he figures out how many nekkid women will be beamed into our house each night, he'll be telling me what a great thing I've done. Speaking of which, where are the nekkid men channels?!? There are umptizillion possibilities for ogling surgically enhanced 18 year old women. I want my equal time, damn it. Hmph.

jalabert and I have decided our future is to quit our jobs and start up a Boysmut TV network. She's even got our promo line: Butts for Babes.