Today was my official first day of vacation. Of course I haven’t been to work since Friday, but since it was my weekend off anyway, I don’t really count that. Nope, vacation started today. I got the chore shit out of the way immediately. Basement cleaned up – Check. Haircut – Check, rented a couple movies – Check. So, I got all that important shit out of the way and decided to check out daytime television and see what I’m missing everyday while I’m slaving away at work. First channel I hit had a soap opera on. There was some guy talking to some girl and telling her some shit. Now I’ve never seen the show before and have no clue who these people are supposed to be, but I knew he was fucking lying, and my claims were backed up a few seconds later when she called him a liar. Well, I don’t need to watch anything so predictable, so I flip through a few more channels. Well, if it isn’t the Maury Povich show. Well, as long as he isn’t doing more of the stupid “I know it’s not my baby bitch, let’s do a DNA test” shows. Well, I guess I should have expected nothing less. Maury (Talk / Tabloid) Paternity tests. TV14 CC. Ok, so the chick is on TV talking about she fucked a few different guys and her man may not be the father of their child. So when the test is revealed and it turns out he is the father, why does he do that little happy dance. I’d say fuck you ya goddamn slut and walk off the stage. Maybe one of your “on the side” dicks will take care of you. Since that never happens it’s time to flip to another channel. Ahh, the X Games. Nothing makes me feel better about my lazy ass sitting on the couch watching television that watching young men jumping bikes and motorbikes and doing flips and turns that you couldn’t even imagine. I have a hard enough time just trying to make a sharp turn on my bike, let alone ever going airborne. That takes a lot of things that I certainly don’t have in me.
Of course had my cable box been working properly, I wouldn’t have to be channel surfing, I would have just been able to run the on screen programming and see what was on without actually watching the shit. Last week for whatever reason my cable box stopped having the on screen programming on it. I went into Charter on my day off last week and told them about it. I was told that they had quite a few people that this had happened to and they were working on the problem and everyone would be up and working by Friday. Well, it seems to be Monday and my box is still not working properly. So, thinking they were a bunch of stupid assholes who just tell people bullshit to get them out of their office, I went back in today and was told that everyone will be up and running by tomorrow (Tuesday). Well, that’s much different than Friday isn’t it? So now tomorrow when I get home from my travels and my cable box still doesn’t work I am going to have to call the company and tell them to send a signal out to my cable box because the dumb asses in my town only think the problem is being fixed.