Our ever-more-regular thunderstorms around here are having another negative effect besides freaking out Hudson the wonder dog and cancelling cook-outs: They are messing with the satellite TV signal. I've never found this to be too much of a problem in the past, but more so lately. I'm getting a bad signal from one of the satellites as well, so I'm hopeful there is something about our dish that needs fixing that will address this. I like my DirecTV service and its huge selection of HD programming, but if I can't figure out how to get more reliable service I may need to explore the alternatives.

Oh yeah, and happy 12th birthday to Quake!!!

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