zero tv people//mr's worker died of liver cancer and mr has pneumonia//
"Winning back the Zero TV crowd will be one of the many issues broadcasters discuss at their national meeting, called the NAB Show, taking place this week in Las Vegas.
People have had it with TV. They've had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don't like timing their lives around network show schedules. They're tired of $100-plus monthly bills.
A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don't even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. These people are watching shows and movies on the Internet, sometimes via cellphone connections, dvd's, movies for free at the local libraries and parks. How much tv does anyone really need?
Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from 2 million in 2007.
Winning back the Zero TV crowd will be one of the many issues broadcasters discuss at their national meeting, called the NAB Show, taking place this week in Las Vegas."
i'm a zero tv person when at the house down south. i love it. it lowers my blood pressure. i think no connection is wonderful. its like having a buffer zone. didn't know not having cable was a new fad though. cracks me up when that happens.
mr called. her phone is back, but she is still paying more than metro. metro is $25 with tax, unlimited everything when they have their special. they had that in march. she stopped paying her boost bill in march and is in trouble with her doublewide if she doesn't sell it quickly. no one is living in it except on of her fish in a tank. she moved into the real house COMPLETELY i think in december (and even that doesn't make sense but i'll stop here instead of ranting, but the price and money she put into it, she could have gotten something twice the size with an acre of land further west, which is what she claimed to want. this house is in the middle of the city on a quarter acre. whatever.) why does she wait for the last minute and put no thought at all into selling and buying grrrr. she will finance whoever buys the doublewide, so its an easy sale. zero percent interest. no credit check.
she says she didn't do anything for her birthday because of being tight on money, but they did get a new dog, a chihuahua/pit puppy that someone was going to bring to the pound if no one took it. hope it works out. she, her new husband and alllll their animals are all living at the house now. can't even imagine the crowd. i'm hoping for a barn along with my house or condo, just with what i have and mr has many more. lol.
she's been inside for about a month with pneumonia, but is stilllll smoking. omg! she is on bactrim. she also stopped paying health insurance and uses a site called needydrugs i think she said, and you get perscriptions free or super cheap. a lot better than a 1200 per month insurance policy THAT IS insane, the one through my office is only 150 this year (it used to be 300) and even with that people complain. some offices give you insurance for FREE. i actually prefer a national policy. its too intrusive having insurance through an office. no thanks. privacy is better.
her worker maureen died. they were very friendly as she was working at the bookstore for 7 years. she had beat breast cancer two times in fifteen years and was diagnosed with liver cancer this time - a nodule. they couldn't find a chemo-drug that she didn't have a reaction to. i think mr is in shock, because the worker generally beat cancer everytime and seemed to be a strong person, wonder if mr did something because she does things. sounds weird to me. why didn't they just cut the cancer off. i hope it wasn't because her insurance wanted it done a certain way. grrrr. i hate that. they compromise the patient for insurance? the woman's husband should look into that and sue if he is up to it.
beautiful sunny day out today. went shopping at the hope store, they had a good sale, got 12 rolls of bounty for $6, love when they have good deals like that. also went shopping for animal supplies. and bought fish for up north. i need to start journalling daily again because it was good exercise for my brain. i also think i need to start taking focus factor more often, it helps. taking my second blood pressure pill is a big deal now, i get dizzy without it. i also bought a vitamin that is supposed to lower cholesterol, wonder if it will work?
lois thinks mr purposely blew her money because she prefers being "poor." lois has done that several times, more than one foreclosure that kind of thing and she finally figured out that she is happier poor. makes me wonder if gamblers are like that. or how about just put all your money in several banks and live normal, or can't they?
People have had it with TV. They've had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don't like timing their lives around network show schedules. They're tired of $100-plus monthly bills.
A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don't even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. These people are watching shows and movies on the Internet, sometimes via cellphone connections, dvd's, movies for free at the local libraries and parks. How much tv does anyone really need?
Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from 2 million in 2007.
Winning back the Zero TV crowd will be one of the many issues broadcasters discuss at their national meeting, called the NAB Show, taking place this week in Las Vegas."
i'm a zero tv person when at the house down south. i love it. it lowers my blood pressure. i think no connection is wonderful. its like having a buffer zone. didn't know not having cable was a new fad though. cracks me up when that happens.
mr called. her phone is back, but she is still paying more than metro. metro is $25 with tax, unlimited everything when they have their special. they had that in march. she stopped paying her boost bill in march and is in trouble with her doublewide if she doesn't sell it quickly. no one is living in it except on of her fish in a tank. she moved into the real house COMPLETELY i think in december (and even that doesn't make sense but i'll stop here instead of ranting, but the price and money she put into it, she could have gotten something twice the size with an acre of land further west, which is what she claimed to want. this house is in the middle of the city on a quarter acre. whatever.) why does she wait for the last minute and put no thought at all into selling and buying grrrr. she will finance whoever buys the doublewide, so its an easy sale. zero percent interest. no credit check.
she says she didn't do anything for her birthday because of being tight on money, but they did get a new dog, a chihuahua/pit puppy that someone was going to bring to the pound if no one took it. hope it works out. she, her new husband and alllll their animals are all living at the house now. can't even imagine the crowd. i'm hoping for a barn along with my house or condo, just with what i have and mr has many more. lol.
she's been inside for about a month with pneumonia, but is stilllll smoking. omg! she is on bactrim. she also stopped paying health insurance and uses a site called needydrugs i think she said, and you get perscriptions free or super cheap. a lot better than a 1200 per month insurance policy THAT IS insane, the one through my office is only 150 this year (it used to be 300) and even with that people complain. some offices give you insurance for FREE. i actually prefer a national policy. its too intrusive having insurance through an office. no thanks. privacy is better.
her worker maureen died. they were very friendly as she was working at the bookstore for 7 years. she had beat breast cancer two times in fifteen years and was diagnosed with liver cancer this time - a nodule. they couldn't find a chemo-drug that she didn't have a reaction to. i think mr is in shock, because the worker generally beat cancer everytime and seemed to be a strong person, wonder if mr did something because she does things. sounds weird to me. why didn't they just cut the cancer off. i hope it wasn't because her insurance wanted it done a certain way. grrrr. i hate that. they compromise the patient for insurance? the woman's husband should look into that and sue if he is up to it.
beautiful sunny day out today. went shopping at the hope store, they had a good sale, got 12 rolls of bounty for $6, love when they have good deals like that. also went shopping for animal supplies. and bought fish for up north. i need to start journalling daily again because it was good exercise for my brain. i also think i need to start taking focus factor more often, it helps. taking my second blood pressure pill is a big deal now, i get dizzy without it. i also bought a vitamin that is supposed to lower cholesterol, wonder if it will work?
lois thinks mr purposely blew her money because she prefers being "poor." lois has done that several times, more than one foreclosure that kind of thing and she finally figured out that she is happier poor. makes me wonder if gamblers are like that. or how about just put all your money in several banks and live normal, or can't they?
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It is beyond my understanding how I can have 60 channels and there is nothing watchable on television except for reruns of Full House that are on a few times a week on channels 19 and 47. I imagine that the people who run the cable television channels must sit around in their offices and plan this all out deliberately. What goes on in their minds? Are they mentally deficient, or is there some other explanation? Imagine if they ran restaurants or any other businesses this way. They\'d be out of business in a matter of weeks.
We still have cable internet and TV with AT&T, I disliked the service from Comcast, it took forever for them to find the problems and fix them in the first visit. I must say we are very satisfied with AT&T. Jay no longer watches TV he does the internet thing all the time, of course he has a huge computer monitor screen.
I will check up the online RX place, thanks for the info.
Have a wonderful week.
I have been in love with DirecTV since we got it, mostly because I now get BBC America. Love me some Doctor Who and Top Gear and Graham Norton! I\'m a complete TV addict. I don\'t know what to do with myself without TV! When we visit my husband\'s family, the TV is all in Swedish, so I have to find something else to do. I usually end up reading or just hanging out with my husband\'s family. Sweden is gorgeous country, too, so I love taking pictures there. It is relaxing, I have to admit! I\'m just not sure I could do it all the time! LOL!
Hope you\'re having a good Monday! *HUGS*
I could do completely without TV. Never did have much use for it. The radio is on in this house most of the time. I play video games, and do things that need to be done. We watch TV once a day. Whatever is on between eight and nine! That\'s it! If I could have one station, it would be the discovery channel. If I never saw another show, it would be fine. I do love to watch competition events, such as the Olympics. but I know there are other mediums to watch these things. Someone can come tomorrow and take this thing. My hubby has no use for it either.
Sorry mr is having so many problems, but happy about the new puppy!
The best way to lower cholesterol is by your food intake. I don\'t know of any vitamin that will lower it! Some people are predisposed to higher cholesterol and it never does any harm. The total picture of a person\'s health has to be considered before deciding that their cholesterol numbers are really significant.
Hope the stuff you takes, does the trick!!
i think mr is going through the five year of deaths thing, that i went through from 07 to 2011 and then stopped counting, deciding its part of life of being over 40. 14 deaths, 11 of the people in their 40\'s or just under. and most of them from cancer. one from asthma and one from something else. the three older ones were old age (100 years), copd p\'s husband, cancer again (smoking) jf. cancer seems to get everyone, and from what i hear we are born with it and stress brings it out more and faster - so does poison - any kind of poisoning, especially prolonged poisoning. think of all the poisons around us, plus the lunatics that go around poisoning people\'s food and drink etc. omg!
mr\'s deaths are her father, her first husband, her mother, her present husband\'s band mate\'s daughter, her worker and several animals (though she has more animals than everyone except sh, so the numbers will be higher anyway) and its all in the passed few years. she comes from a small family - only child, so one would expect the number of deaths to be smaller. she\'s barely on speaking terms with her step children but that is from spending their share of the inheritance, i still can\'t believe she did that AND so far got away with it, its ridiculous. what in the world was she thinking? why do that? bad enough to take/steal it and then squander it, how about do the right thing and split it with the kids?
cholest-off is made of plant sterols/stanols 900 mg. so far no side-effects, i only take two of them in the am and we\'ll see what till happen i guess. i have also upped the number of focus factor to a couple of times per week or more. lots of changes. my body has side effects of cholesterol meds so that is out. i also use niacin at night about five nights per week.