I am about ready to cut the television cable, as many of the wiser people I know have done. AT&T is getting too big for its britches. My latest cable-phone-Internet bill was more than $300, which is not worth the use I get out of it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe TV channels keep blacking out,\u201d said Oat Smith, who has some of the same problems with cable that I do. \u201cThey always go out about the time ah\u2019m watching a program I want to see, such as Martha Stewart Cooking reruns.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd they have all these repeats. The Hitler channel, for instance. I know how that turns out. Old Hitler starts World War II, loses it, then shoots himself. C\u2019mon, who doesn\u2019t know that?\u201d<\/p>\n
He also mentioned the cutoff threats AT&T makes against our favorite channels, such as Channel 26 and Channel 24. <\/p>\n
\u201cOld Kopi Sotiropulis, my favorite weather man, would be out the door and down the road if they carried out that threat,\u201d Oat said. \u201cWe can\u2019t have that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Oat said he is going to get a rooftop antenna from Ventura TV Video and Appliance Center, and he won\u2019t have to pay any more $300 monthly bills to AT&T.<\/p>\n
Ventura TV is an unusual television channel. Besides being a home-based television station, it also sells televisions and appliances and has local interviews. It has transmitter towers all around the valley, so there\u2019s no problem (or so they say) with getting a good signal.<\/p>\n
One of my other friends gets Netflix, and can see all the movies he wants to see, and also sports shows.<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n
Those AT&T rates are going up faster than the rocket ships that allegedly will be going to the moon before long. Nine private companies plan to partner with NASA to send space ships to the moon to carry passengers and freight.<\/p>\n
Some people think it would be fun to colonize the moon, but my friend, Oat Smith is not one of them.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve seen them pictures of the moon that the astronauts took,\u201d Oat said the other day, \u201cand I can tell you, they look a lot like photos of the Mojave Desert. No water, no grass, no nuthin.\u2019 I didn\u2019t see any \u2018for sale\u2019 signs up there from Realtors, either.\u201d<\/p>\n
Oat said it didn\u2019t look from the pictures like anything would grow up there.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe a few dandelions, but that would be about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The head of NASA said last February that this time, once we get to the moon, we will stay there. (Shuurre, now). Maybe open a 7-Eleven store or a branch of Amazon Prime. Maybe the president, a hotel man, would want to open a Trump Tower. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhat a view you will get from here,\u201d the ads for the hotel might say.<\/p>\n
A trip on the rocket ship would cost about a million dollars per person.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know,\u201d said Oat, \u201cIt just could be that some people have too much money.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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