Day Four and Counting

Today is the fourth day that we are waiting for Time Warner to come and hook up our Cable Internet. No kidding, but they've missed three appointments over the past week so far. I'm amazed that we don't move to the top of some scheduling priority after the third missed appointment. But, alas, here it is on day four at 10:55 with one hour left in the four hour window (8-12). The wife is very upset but the husband doesn't mind as we are now at $80 in credits for the missed appointments and today we found an unsecured wireless Internet that we just used to check email and write into the blog since we moved.
In case anyone is thinking of moving or changing their telecom services here in Birkdale or Charlotte we've found the best combination to be Direct TV for TV ($58 for two DVR connections), Time Warner for Cable Internet (High Speed Internet), and Sun Rocket for VOIP ($9.95 for unlimited calling). We originally had Bell South for DSL and Telephone but we could never get our bill below $80/month and often it was over $100. So we canned them and all of their fees and the combined Time Warner Internet/Sun Rocket Phone means that our combined bill in never great that $53. The other cool thing about Sun Rocket is that it allows us 200 free international calling minutes. It occasionally has some bad connection issues but most of the time it is just as good as a regular phone and costs a heck of allot less.
Well, Time Warner's install team finally called and they just turned into Birkdale Village.