> In article bignews5.bellsouth.net>, "Kent Finnell"
> bellsouth.net> wrote:
>

>> "Dennis M" dennmac.net> wrote in message
>> news:dennmac-ya02408000R0212060659210001@NNTP.InfoAve.Net...

>>> In article bignews7.bellsouth.net>, "Kent Finnell"
>>> bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>

>>>> You been watching Rachael Ray on the Food Channel?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Kent Finnell
>>>>From the Music City USA

>>>
>>> Do you have cable now Kent? I thought you still used rabbit ears.

>> Since about a month after I moved to my current apartment. The apartment
>> building has an antenna with connections in each apartment. Unfortunately
>> the elements were set in the mid-60s and is totally screwed for the
>> currently available broadcast channels. Comcast has outlets set in the
>> strangest places in each apartment now and it charges the renter for the
>> connection. The arrangement is very Jerry-rigged ... out of the closet, up
>> the wall, over the door, back to the floor, over to the TV set. My original
>> set-up was under $10 per month and got only the local broadcast channels,
>> including 8, and every blasted religious channel. It's worth the extra 44
>> per month to have news channels, the History Channel, Discovery, SiFi, etc.
>> available.

>
> Yeah I've dealt with my fair share of apartment complexes and the funky
> wiring for cable some of them have. One time I remember drilling a small
> hole behind a rubber shoemoe (it was undectable when I moved) to run a
> cable into the bedroom.
>
> This house I've just moved into had just been remodeled with new carpeting,
> so both the phone guy and the cable guy had to drill holes from above and
> venture underneath to hook me up. I don't envy them because this house
> seems to have a particularly low crawlspace and I've always been afflicted
> by a mild case of claustrophobia. I tried going under there and turned
> around after going about a fourth of the way in.
>
> Anyway I'm glad to hear you can finally take advantage of some of the news
> and other channels cable/satellite provide.
>

>> My daughter is a huge fan of RR, has all of her cookbooks, and watches when
>> she can.

>
> I hear Rachel was recently rated one of the most "overrated celebrities" by
> some organization that has nothing better to do than rate celebrities.
>

>> That ought to teach you to ask me a semi-civil question, Dennis. You'll get
>> more answer than you wanted.
>>
>> Oh, BTW, would you like some black wasps to go along with the beetles? I
>> killed the first one of Buzzy's great-great-great grandchildren last night
>> as he was struggling in my dry bathtub. I get the nasty little critters the
>> first few cold snaps each year. They come into the bathroom via the vent on
>> the balcony. The balcony faces north.

>
> Hey I've got wasps too, the light brown variety. I've already gone through
> about 3 cans of "10-foot stream" wasp pesticide but thankfully none have
> yet made their way into the house.

>
> Then in August I was mowing the backyard and ran over a small hole in the
> ground that turned out to be a yellow-jacket nest (not the "Coke can"
> yellow-jackets you see at the beach, the mean SOB yellow-jackets that live
> in the ground). I was stung three times in the legs, once on my hand and
> once just over the eye before I realized what was going on. That bee venom
> hurt like the dickens continuously for about 14 hours.
>