Comcast sucks, "Up" does not.

[thistlechaser]

I know it's beating a dead horse, but Comcast sure does annoy me sometimes. In my continuing months-long battle to make the darned Wii work, the final thing I did was upgrade my Tivo to a series 3 HD one. Unfortunately, unknown to me, using a cable card instead of a cable box was not an option, it was required. Thus, a call to Comcast.

Nearly two weeks later, repair guy showed up. Waved off the Tivo directions I tried to give him, put in the card. Didn't work. He told me to run through the Tivo set-up again, but since that would take a half-hour, he couldn't wait to see if that fixed it.

Raise your hand if you're surprised that that didn't fix it. So I called in, was on hold another 30 minutes, and they sent another guy out. Then another. Then another. Finally one showed up with a card that actually worked, but he said it would take about an hour for Tivo to download all the info it needed to actually work. It was 5:30 by then and I was sure he was just blowing me off so he could go home, but surprisingly that did actually work.

So: Woo woo! After all this time, everything is finally set up and working! HD TV, Wii, DVD player, and Tivo. Now, so long as I never buy a new piece of equipment again, I'll be all set! :P

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I was half-interested in Up when it first came out, but it got a lot of bad word of mouth online, so I eventually just skipped it. What in the world were all those people thinking?! I loved nearly every moment of that movie! So sad! So touching! So much character evolution! I teared up a bunch of times -- it's amazing how sad it could be in such subtle ways (like the couple not being able to have a baby, and when his wife first got sick and couldn't walk up the hill -- that nearly killed me!).

The second half of the movie was a whole lot different than the first, but I had no issues accepting the house being floated around by balloons and a bunch of "talking" dogs (only thing that bothered me was the dogs flying the fighter planes... and I have no clue why since I was able to accept the dogs cooking and serving drinks and such). I really did love the dogs, they stayed so realistically doggy while still being able to talk.

Such a sad movie though, which made the happy ending even happier. :)

I really need to post about WoW on day. Been dragging my feet on editing screenshots...

Comments

[littlekuriboh.livejournal.com]

Where on earth did you see bad word of mouth for Up? I've never met a soul online or off that disliked it.

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

*waves* Yo. I didn't exactly not-enjoy the movie, but especially following Wall-E, I spent a good portion of it seething over Pixar's continued sexism.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

fandom_secrets had a whole bunch of negative secrets about it. I seem to think my friendsfriends list might have had a couple bad posts, too. Insane!

[pomr.livejournal.com]

I loved Up. =) I think it is one of the best Pixar films to date. =)

Deeply moving in spots. Hilarious in others. :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Totally agreed! :D My favorite Pixar movie by far!

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

I could not think about the initial Carl and Ellie sequence for days afterwards without tearing up. So sweet and sad and very touching. I like how it made Carl so sympathetic. He wasn't a random cranky old man; he'd just lost his friend and partner of many, many years.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yes, to all of that! It was totally understandable why he was so cranky and attached to the house. *sniffle*

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

I do not like the Cone of Shame.

(I loved it. But I wasn't posting much when I saw it.)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*laughs* The Cone of Shame was the best! :D

[pomr.livejournal.com]

*headtwitch* SQUIRREL!