Matt’s Random Thoughts

I NEED TV! I think going three weeks without TV is like weening oneself off crack-cocaine. Ouch!

As Tara and I move into our new home, we have fought many battles. The first of which was with the former owners due to their financial issues. The second was with utilities. For the past 4 years we’ve gone with Cox Communications for everything, phone, cable, and internet. It was nice, but a little pricey. This time we were going to be different.

We decided to go with Dish Network and Verizon for phone and DSL. This was mainly because Cox only comes to Gloucester once in a blue moon, and their first appointment wasn’t until December. (Mind you we started this crusade in early November). We got an appointment for both Dish and Verizon. Dish sent someone out one Sunday (getting hooked up is a bitch for people with jobs, as weekend appointments are rare…) and the guy gets out of his truck, looks around, and says he can’t install it because of the trees. He said we needed to call and get a second opinion.

Tara hops on the phone and calls to talk to some indian man whom you couldn’t understand. Go figure. He had no clue what she was talking about, but eventually he figured it out. He set up another appointment this past Sunday. So we come back early from the Thanksgiving break to wait for Dish Network. We wait… and wait… and wait. He doesn’t come. She gets back on the phone to talk to some other indian woman (again, who can’t understand) who tells us they came the day before. That’s nice, Tara says, but when were they going to tell us. The flippin’ woman couldn’t grasp the concept that we wasted an entire day waiting for them to come. Tara asks for a supervisor. Another indian. GOD! DO ANY OF THESE COMPANIES SUPPORT THEIR HOME COUNTY! JESUS H. CRIST!!!!! (I wonder what the H. stands for?) What’s worse is that the supervisor was just as stupid and couldn’t grasp the concept. The bottom line was that there’s too many trees, although I beg to differ. Screw them.

I wish this had been as simple as phone. Apparently Verizon just flicks a switch and it’s on. Though they lost the DSL order, so we had to call for that. Now, however, apparently our phone jacks don’t work. Bummer!

Anyway, so we make another call to Cox. By this time it’s almost December, so perhaps that appointment was still available. Luckily they had a cancellation, and we got it set up yesterday. What’s best, we got their DVR and can record stuff and replay it. How cool is that! We can record Family Guy and Desperate Housewives at the same time! Ahhhh…. television is so wonderful. And no, I didn’t pee my pants. But I did do a happy dance!

When I was a kid, one of my favorite cartoons was Thundercats. The animation was bad, and the voice overs weren’t all that great either, but it was still a cool show. They were cool characters, they had cool weapons, and it was just, well, cool.

Several years ago (maybe 9 or 10) my excitement grew as Cartoon Network began airing the show on their block called Toonami. I watched it after getting home from high school each day. Well, at least on the days we didn’t have band practice. Regardless, it was a great refresher.

Now, my excitement has again grown. I was in the store a few weeks ago and noticed that Thundercats was on DVD. How cool is that? It’s so cool it’s ICE! But that, dear reader, is not what this post is about. No. Just the other day I was downloading some stuff and came across a post online for an upcoming Thundercats movie. While trying to keep from wetting msyelf in pure joy, I anxiously downloaded the trailer to this movie. A few hours of download time later, I clicked the file and watched it play in windows media player.

Now, a typical person probably would’ve bought it. That is, they would’ve believed it. I, on the other hand, immediately recognized the background music. It’s a ballad to Sephiroth, the final boss of Final Fantasy 7, who made an appearance in Kingdom Hearts on PS2. Needless to say, I was a bit disappointed. But I have to give the guy credit for making this thing. It was a good effort!

Check it out yourself. I’ve hosted it on my site. Thunder… Thunder… Thundercats, Ho!

So we’re in. The house that is. After dealing with all of the crap from the sellers, we FINALLY were able to close. Then they wanted to be jerks about not letting us move in until Monday because of the Veteran’s Day holiday. These people are just slimey, and their realtors, Morgan & Edwards, are just as bad.

We’ve been gradually moving our stuff in. Okay, in reality we’ve had to rush a bit because we lost two weekends of moving because of the sellers’ financial problems. They had tried to fix the place up, but did a quick and crappy job of it. The hardwood floors are nice, but the gaps in them are not. The painted walls were a nice touch, but the paint job is horrible. You’d think with all the money they spent in renovations, they could’ve spared $2 to buy a door stop to prevent the HUGE hole from being put in the wall from the front door’s door knob.

The cats are now over there. They seem to like the place. I think their favorite thing is being able to run and slide across the hardwood floors. We were a bit worried at first though, because they weren’t pooping. Now they’re back to doing that. (Who would have ever thought I’d be excited about POOP?) When we first brought them over they got into the attic. I think they were in exploration mode. We had to close the openings to keep them out.

The funniest moment came when Tara was lining the kitchen cabinets. The old owners left quite a bit of stuff behind. We found lightbulbs everywhere, and personal things too. However, in the kitchen cabinets we found something a little unusual. It was hidden in the corner, but it was there… a jello mold of penises. Yep, a pepe jello mold. Now THAT’S a jello shooter! This was accompanied by the Preparation H we found in the linen closet.

The adventure continues. As I sit here on Thanksgiving Day, we are coming back from Delaware on Saturday to finish up a few things. We have until Wednesday to completely move out of our apartment. We can do it. Well, we HAVE to do it.