yesterday i was watching a documentary on TV about China (yes, I sometimes watch TV apprently). my brother subscribed to Bell ExpressVu a little while ago, without being warned of some, hmm, inconveniences. the main one being that the satellite won't work if anything gets in its way. anything being a couple of leaves from a tree, a cloud or a gigantic elephant.

seeing as we have a big tree in front of our place, we can only watch TV in the winter, when the leaves are gone. but then, it also depends if there is an overcast or not. in other words, we can only watch TV on sunny, cold, days.

yesterday, though, it was quite a bit windy so the branches from the tree got in front of the satellite on an occasional basis... that is until Fred got annoyed and went to curve them so i could watch the documentary. it seemed mostly fine, as long as he stayed on the porch and held the branches!! i wonder how much that would work as a sales pitch.