To Jim

So, we lost that $100 gift card (which really sucked and makes me wonder if a certain someone came by and snatched it), then there was the time the cable was down for about five days and the repair guys kept flaking out. Oh, and there was when we first moved into the house and moved the cable/router too close to the TV and no one could connect to the internet or have a decent speed when they did (yes Jim, you were right and we should have moved it away from the TV). But I'm completely glad the 105A house never signed up with Time Warner Cable.

Why?

well 12:01AM, January 1st might be seeing a huge change in TV programing.

SpongeBob SquarePants might get squeezed off Time Warner Cable.

Media giant Viacom Inc said its Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central and 16 other channels will go dark for 13 million subscribers at 12:01 a.m. Thursday if a new carriage fee deal with Time Warner Cable Inc is not agreed upon by then.

The impasse would mean "SpongeBob" and other popular shows like Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" and Stephen Colbert's "The Colbert Report" will be cut off on the nation's second-largest cable operator. Time Warner Cable primarily serves people in New York state, the Carolinas, Ohio, Southern California and Texas [emphasis added].

So as this year comes to a close, lets be happy we got AT&T and not the Nazi-esque Time Warner Cable.

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Editor's Note: Yes, I'm aware that Time Warner is not available in Houston, but rather Comcast is. Shut up.