Saturday, June 3, 2006 - - DirecTV Letdown

DirecTV finally showed up today. Nice tech.
He informed us that rather than a 15 pound dish like Dish Network, DirecTV's dish is 100 pounds. Holy, crap!
So, it can't go in the same place as the current dish and, in fact, would need its own pole (like a 8 foot telephone pole). Add to that that this lovely pole would need a hole drilled in lava rock and it starts to look rather dim for DirecTV and the OLN and Tivo that it provides.

On a brighter note, my fabulous Mark got the DVD working this morning.
So....Netflix, here I come!

We have also made an appointment with Dish Network to get started with them.
So far, we have an appointment in a month. If DirecTV's schedule-reschedule pattern is normal, we should have TV by 2010. :)

Later today we'll be headed over to Volcanoes National Park. Its an amazing place, with some of the best hiking we've every done. Check it out: http://www.nps.gov/havo/home.htm
Its about two miles up the road from our house.

Got asparagus today.
When we moved in the asparagus patch started by Linda and Virginia had bolted (gone all wild). I hacked everything down about a week ago. Today I noticed that we have about 12 asparagus spears popping up through wood chips.
If you have never seen asparagus grow, its kind of weird. Each spear comes up on its own, like a worm (see photo).

Farmer's market tomorrow. Then I'm off to the airport to get Mark to Atlanta.