My cable tv here is now completely awful. It is virtually unwatchable and
unlistenable.The cable company refuses to repair it. (and I can't put up an
antenna or satellite dish here. too many trees for satellite reception
anyways. It's "Smokey The Bear" woods thick.

and although I was (and still am a bit) upset about the cable tv no longer
coming in watchable, I finally say "phooey on the cable tv". It just gives me
another excuse to once again start monitoring radio stations like I used to.
And besides, in today's atmosphere, even if the cable tv came in perfectly, who
could see the actual program picture anyways with all those station logos,
advertising banners, titles of shows, text crawls, and a bunch of other
superimposed stuff constantly covering the picture anyways?

just one more excuse to go back to listening to the radio instead of watching
tv.

I do still have my old videotapes that I can watch, so I'll probably alternate
between watching them and listening to the radio. But once I've seen them a few
times, then there's not much reason to watch them anymore.

So it looks like I'll soon be posting my actual shortwave radio loggings here.