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Guess who took her first solo Uber ride yesterday ?That would be ya girl! And it went about as well as I could have expected it to.

(A little back story:Up until recently I had a cab driver friend who I could call and I would get a ride to the grocery store and the like.However,as I recently mentioned he went radio silent.I have been flummoxed about how to deal with it.I mean, obviously Uber and Lyft are out there and I resisted them as long as I could-for what reason I’m not entirely sure.But it came to this and you know what?I am glad that it happened.

Here is the thing about my cab driver friend:I would be beholden to regular jobs that he would have and he would have jobs where he would have to drive a passenger to the airport(and it was money that he needed.)The timing of the rides were not predictable though. I know people Not so much Uber and Lyft. The two times(so far-to my appointment and back home-and by the way yesterday we had every season in one day here in San Diego..including hail which does NOT happen very often.)I have NOT had to wait very long and given how inclement the weather was yesterday that was a good thing!

Another thing is price.You can choose the car and driver that you want and it can go from a regular car to a ride in a Tesla(not going to do that..I wonder how many takers they get for those.)I don’t really care what car I’m in(as long as it’s not a Tesla, obviously.)

I have been at BlueSky for almost 3 months and I love it. It is the anti-T*****r. People who try to start trouble get smacked down REAL quickly which,thank god. It’s not owned by an asshole.

Sure,I lost a few followers when I went over to BlueSky but also I have made a lot of new friends. We have things we like in common(Hannibal and music among other things.)Oh, and hating the Orange Asshole.

 The Apple Vision Pro is a neat idea in theory but man..the price is gonna keep all but the wealthiest Apple users from buying one.

Trust fund babies, however, went out  and bought them as soon as they were available.(That’s not snark, it’s the truth!)

My dad has been going back and forth on whether he is going to switch to Spectrum..ultimately he decided to stay with DirectTV. But at one point several options were being considered, including just going to strictly streaming(think YouTube TV..which I have sone experience with..it is just that I do not want to be the one holding my parents’ hands when they need tech support.

I understand technical stuff..to a point.But don’t ask me to do anything too tricky.I have tried to stress this to my parents and honestly, they’re trying,god bless them!

But for now, DirectTV is just fine.It has its issues for sure(not for areas where you get any sort of bad weather because it can and does go out when the weather is bad.Luckily in the 2 plus years that we have had Direct we haven’t had a lot of issues but occasionally we do.

It’s a whole lot better than uVerse which was horrible(I feel bad for anyone who still has them as an internet provider because they’re terrible.OTOH when we complained about certain things, we got free premium channels and I did like that.)

Direct has some pluses for sure- their DVR’s have a lot of storage room-you can record a lot of shows/movies and still have a lot of space(sometimes I will tape a bunch of shows and it takes me a while to get to them.Eventually if they are on there I delete them.I make that executive decision and(mostly) don’t feel badly about it.

That being said,I have been doing some research and to be honest, Direct is seeming very good to me.All of the cable companies that are available in my area have their pluses and minuses. Direct’s are their On Demand(which is very extensive they even have a lot of free TV shows) and, as I mentioned before, the DVR.

Minuses:The also previously mentioned weather issues.And the occasional issues too but some of those can be fixed by googling(had to do that the other day actually)

Friends of my dad’s just got Spectrum(they’re new to the area) but it’s not available where I live(yet). Yeah..Spectrum is not perfect either. Lots of issues with customer service. That, to me is a red flag.I remember a few times that it took uVerse a few days to get out there when something went wrong. And one of the modems that we had was(partly) battery operated and of course the battery died right after something very important-one of the Hannibal season finales-so I had to use the internet at Starbucks.

As of the end of this month(the 29th which is another significant anniversary but stay tuned for more on that!) both my parents and I will have had DirectTV for an entire year.

Yes, we have what is basically their version of basic cable and we still get a lot of channels..Do I miss some of the channels that I don’t get anymore?Of course!(when we had uVerse we had a couple of free premium channels because my dad complained about how much we were getting charged.Haven’t had that problem with Direct(yet..).I don’t miss how uVerse crashed all the time.Like completely and it would take a couple of days to get someone to fix it.