Lord Gonchar

This is pretty cool.

So I’ve posted a lot about TV and specifically my hate for Time Warner and their lack of ‘getting it” and my love of AT&T U-Verse and their abundance of ‘getting it’ in the past couple of years:

New TV – (June 2007)
Cable Box Woes – (July 2007)
TV Service Woes – (September 2008)
TV Service Woes Remedied – (September 2008)
Neither Side Gave In – (October 2008)
Temporarily Disconnected – (January 2009)
I Want My U-Verse, Fuck You Time Warner – (March 2010)
Fuck You U-Verse…no, I still love you – (March 2010)

It all makes for a fun little story if you read them all.

So what does this have to do with anything?

Today I wake up and pop open my e-mail like any other day and there it is…an e-mail from AT&T letting me know that U-Verse is now available at my address. All those months of putting my address into the availability checker and asking them to notify me when available finally paid off. I think I came a little.

Hopefully, I’m not counting my chickens before they’re hatched because God knows with my luck in this area that something is bound to go wrong. But tonight, I’m putting together a package and scheduling an install date.

Giggity!

If the Weird Al tickets didn’t make it official, this does.

The wife came home today and handed me a calendar. Not just any calendar, but one full of serveral roller coaster photos. Turns out one of the suits (or rather, skirts, I suppose) at her corporate office deals with Baynum Painting on some professional level. She received one of their 2010 calendars and immediately thought of my wife (they all know we’re coasters dorks – you know, that little coasterimage.com thing I have going on) and passed it on to her and she in turn brought it home to me where I not only looked at it, but then took photos of it to share here and further establish (and document) my decent into the bottom rungs of the social ladder. (I’m pretty sure I’m rubbing sholders with mouth breathers at this point).

It’s not all roller coaster pictures – they do paint other things – but the little tidbits were interesting.

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(You can click those for bigger versions, if you’d like.)

This is crazy stuff.
I knew this sort of thing happened and what was possible, but I guess I didn’t realize just how much it really is used.