We’re still having some connectivity issues. Now I’m thinking it might be our PC but I don’t know; I’m not the expert in these matters. I’m still glad we switched to Hughes Net because it is faster than Wild Blue.
In other entertainment news, we’re getting Direct TV installed on Thursday. I can hardly wait. Right now we’re getting quite a few channels but no HD. I’m actually even looking forward to telling the Cable company that we’re switching. Well, sort of looking forward to it and sort of not. Anyway, we will be getting a lot of channels that we don’t get now, a few of which look interesting and many of which we will never watch. There are a lot of religious channels and Latino channels. (Is it okay to say “Latino” this week? I can’t keep up.) I wish they would let us trade channels. I would gladly trade all of the church channels channels for just one good movie channel.
We’ve been quite busy the last few days. Spent all afternoon yesterday shopping. With the husband! More about that later. I need to take a picture and upload it.
June 26th, 2011 - 10:38 am
I call them the Spanish channels. Because that’s the language they’re in: Spanish. Even the Brazilian soaps are dubbed into Spanish. “Latino/a” is a meaningless term made up by political activists.
June 26th, 2011 - 3:35 pm
I always called them Spanish-language channels. (I don’t get any of them, but my parents do. “Sabado Gigante” is kind of fun, even if you don’t understand what’s going on)
June 26th, 2011 - 8:33 pm
“Latino channel” is fine but as Andea and fillyjonk noted, “Spanish channel” and “Spanish-language channel” are more accurate. Personally, I think anyone who would make a fuss about their terminology needs to find a better use for their spare time.
June 27th, 2011 - 6:22 am
I think Direct TV used the word “Latino” in some of their channel descriptions on their website. I guess that’s where I got it.
June 27th, 2011 - 7:04 am
By the way, I meant no disrespect. I really can’t keep up.
June 27th, 2011 - 9:06 am
“Personally, I think anyone who would make a fuss about their terminology needs to find a better use for their spare time.”
You’ve just destroyed the internet.
June 27th, 2011 - 1:16 pm
Oops! My bad, Andrea.
June 27th, 2011 - 1:23 pm
No disrespect taken on my part, Lynn. I can’t always keep up either. And sometimes I don’t even want to keep up even if it means sounding like Grandpa Simpson.
June 27th, 2011 - 5:52 pm
All the packages the tv companies offer are horrible. They are designed to make you spend more money and get channels you never watch in order to get the 4 channels you really want. And they succeed, the evil bastiches.