I have had cable for years. I have so many channels right now that I don’t even get to watch all of the shows I really want to watch because there just isn’t enough time to watch them all. And since I am going to school, paying for cable and not able to watch the shows seems like I’m pouring cash down the drain.
I’ve switched from cable to direct tv once before and if you’re like me, I always go with the best deal. Paying for cable TV isn’t cheap these days unless you get a great deal that is either valid for a year or two years. It’s a good thing that we have choices now and not simply stuck with one company that will provide cable access.
Now, it all boils down to quality and price. I like my HD channels today but every company seems to offer an HD option nowadays. The DVR is a blessing as well since I get to record the shows that I want to watch and at times when I have time to sit and relax, I get to catch up on the series that I love.
I have been away from directtv for a while. Has there been any improvement to their service or any good offers from them lately? My deal with my current cable company just expired and the price I pay just doubled. I am looking for an alternative and I was wondering if you would suggest that I switch to dx3? Just asking. I have to make up my mind soon because with the way the economy is today, I have to cut costs anywhere I can.
It’s amazing how much my life has changed since I started working from home. Since I am a writer it didn’t make sense to have me in the office every day. Now I just write when I get the urge and I am doing much better. I don’t have to deal with so much stress anymore, and it has made my life so much better. I am so happy that I don’t have to deal with office drama and politics anymore. It was so draining dealing with people and their stupidity. I still have to deal with them sometimes, but now I can just send them an email from my couch since I have wireless internet. I don’t have to sit there and listen to some ridiculous rant about work or another coworker. I guess I am just the type of person that works better when I am on my own. I have never been overly social, so I feel more comfortable alone. I still go in to the office a few times a month, but that is much more manageable than doing the daily grind.
I stumbled upon this article after reading one of my favorite blogs I normally visit. It’s an article so touching that I would encourage you (yes you! my one and only subscribed reader!) to read it. It warms my heart how an essay had changed a family and a small town.
The essay was supposed to be “I’m Christian… Unless…. ” – Here’s one of the response and I would encourage you to read the whole thing from the link to follow below.
Hello Mr. Pearce,
I am the Christian mother of a 15 year old teenage boy and about a month ago he came home from school with a copy of your article “I’m Christian, unless you’re gay”. The teacher gave his class a homework assignment to read it and write a 500 word essay about “what it meant to them”.
He came home and showed me your article and asked me what I thought about it. I read just the title and became furious at his teacher and at you (even though I know you had nothing to do with her handing out the assignment). Anyway, I confiscated it from him and told him he wasn’t to do anything with it till I had a chance to read it first.
And then I got madder and madder as I read it as I felt like it was a direct attack against our beliefs and our Christian religion and that it was promoting homosexuality, a practice that around here is a huge “sin”.
As I was growing up, I was raised to be open to other religions. My mom invited Jehovah’s Witnesses to our home, have dinner with them and sat with them to listen to stories about Jesus.
My mom also entertained a Mormon missionary who wanted to rent one of our properties while on a mission in the Philippines.
At a young age, I knew – even being a Catholic – how to practice religious tolerance. To this day, I am still very much interested in other religions most specially Judaism.
I read other spiritual blogs regardless whether it’s a Christian blog or not. Why? Because goodness can come in different forms.
I remember how much of a big deal it is for a teenage girl to go to prom. My daughter, who’s a freshman, got asked to go with her boyfriend this year and no matter how her dad felt about her going, I told her that she needed to go. I explained to him how big of a deal it is and he finally relented.
So at first I thought that it would help to look online for some ideas about what kind of dress she’s looking for, out of fear that she’d get overwhelmed about shopping for dresses. While I was looking through dresses with her, I found info on Debt counseling and decided that our family should take advantage of it. We’ve had some financial issues lately and I’d like to get those cleared up before we send off our kids to college.
She decided that she wants a bright prom dress. It doesn’t surprise me because the last thing she ever wants to do is blend into a crowd. She’s thinking pink or lime green. I guess we’ll just have to see what she finds!
I learned this a long time ago while listening to a pastor whom I developed a fondness listening to. I know that there are many commands that God has given and if you think about it, God really does not order us to follow his lead, He asks us.
Let me cite an example. Here’s one command that will tell you about God’s loving kindness because when He asks you to follow a command (for your own benefit and not His), he tacks on a blessing together with it.
The Fifth Commandment states, “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you” (Exodus 20:12).
It’s a command to obey your parents and if you follow his command, you will live longer. That doesn’t necessarily mean that you will die early if you don’t obey your parents but rather a promise to those who are willing to follow God’s instructions. To go further, he also promised living a life in abundance. How great is that?
I may not write a lot on this blog but when I do, I try to write something relevant to what my blog is all about. It’s like a journal that I keep where I only write something when I feel something that stirred my emotions and touched me in one way or another.
I have several blogs and it’s hard to keep up with them. One of the blogs that I have is about loans just because it has a high CPM value when it comes to ads. But then, I lost the right to the domain (not paying attention to the notices I receive from my host) and somehow, when I lost the domain, I lost the contents as well. I never performed a back up on it or a pc back up to save my files.
Now that I have received a new domain to replace it, I cannot access my data anymore. I wonder if there is a way to retrieve all the data and point a new domain to it. Does anyone know?
I am really not a technical person and when something happens to my blogs, I usually ask help from readers like you.
I think that the content is still in my hosted folder but I’m not sure how I could recover it and point the new domain to it. Please help?
Marriage today is struggling. Divorces, adultery, misconceptions, etc are plaguing not only the marriage itself but products of those marriages (my generation and the next). My hope in this poem is to highlight the most frequent and problematic issues marriages face today while also pointing to Jesus as the ultimate healer, redeemer, and restorer of every marriage. Whether single or married, my intention would be that this poem would allow you to look more deeply to Jesus to either better your current marriage, or prepare for your future marriage.
