Gestures

Realism / Anton Azbe/ Study of a man

Interesting conversation with the cable company this weekend.  They decided that my rates would be raised significantly.  It slipped their mind to inform me of this.  When I called them, they voiced a reasonable facsimile of contrition along with the message, “well, tough shit, pay up”.

So I cancelled.

The person on the other end of the line seemed shocked that I would willingly cut myself off from their service, after all, how else would I watch TV?

She seemed even more aghast when I explained that I did not own a TV.  I won’t count this as one of my more pleasant interludes with the corporate baronies that seem to think that they own us.

So I am back to paying $10.00 extra a month on my phone bill for 60gb of monthly data at a decent download/upload rate.  Actually I am even more pleased at the $50.00 a month that I am ahead by telling xfinity to take a hike.

Even more so the idea of one less thing tying me down.  I have a feeling that I will need to review a bunch of things like this over the next eighteen months to cut ties to the empire and live out on the fringes.

Figuring out what fringe I want to go to is going to take a while.  I can’t believe that I am being this wishy-washy.  Jesus, I wish I was one of the old geezers who was certain that the way that they think is correct all the time.  Decisions seem to come easy.  The hard part with me is watching good decisions deteriorate over time.  What was then just isn’t what will be.  

Guessing the future and fitting into it is a perilous task.  The way that things appear to be shaking out, I think that a lot of folk’s decisions over the past twenty years may well be reaching their pull dates.  I just want to be out of the way when they realize this awkward little fact.  There are a lot of folks who get nasty when that kind of thing happens