On Tuesday this week I was contacted through my site by a high-up guy over at New Wave’s marketing department (Evidently he stumbled upon my post via search engine.  I guess the Search Engine Optimization plugin is good for something!).  He seemed genuinely concerned about my situation and getting it corrected from his email, so I replied back.  With in a half hour he called me and we discussed my situation on the phone.  He was very very nice about the whole thing, as was I.  He told me they would have someone out that very evening when I got home to get my HD installed, and on top of that they were going to waive the installation fees and credit my account for a nice chunk of HD service.  I was pretty happy to hear this but still couldn’t quite believe it.  But sure enough, at 6:30 on the dot, the New Wave tech pulled up in my drive way.  He installed an HD-DVR box and had me all up and running in probably 10-15 minutes.  I finally had my HD!  And let me tell you, it is gorgeous!  It’ll be even nicer when my HDMI cable comes in  (New Wave only had component cables.  I would’ve liked to have seen HDMI since it’s been around for a while and a pretty accepted standard, but no big deal).  I found a 10 foot HDMI cable online for less then $4 shipped to my door.  A lot better then the $48 Walmart wanted, but that’s a rant for another day.  The HD-DVR works great!  I finally got to put it to the test last night when I recorded Bones in HD while grilling out.  Then we came in and sat down for dinner and watched it.  It was a fantastic picture.  So crystal clear you can see individual hairs on their head.

I just felt like I should make a post updating my situation.  New Wave righted my wrong, and their Marketing guy assured me that if I ever have any more issues, to let him know and he will get it taken care of.  It is reassuring to know that someone out there at New Wave does care about their company.  I just hope that my situation has brought any problems existing with my local offices (or maybe wider spread) in to light and New Wave can work on ensuring that my lack of care doesn’t happen to others.

Thank you New Wave for fixing my situation.

Before heading over to the Fox, we went by a local Italian restaurant called Vito’s Sicilian Pizza and Restaurant per recommendation of my sister and her fiance.  I have to give this place my highest recommendations.  I had originally made reservations for 5:30, but due to unforeseen events (I forgot the tickets at home when we were already on the road… can’t believe I did that), we were running very late.  I called and pushed the reservations back to 6.  We still didn’t get there until 6:15, but they still had our table reserved, so on a very busy night (any time a show is at the Fox, they are busy because they are only a few blocks from the Fox), we had zero wait time and were able to get right in and sit down.  Service was excellent and their food was delicious.  I had the Spinach and Ricotta Manicotti with Meat Sauce, while Heather had Bacon Wrapped Scallops with grilled Asparagus.  Both dishes were great.

After the play, we headed back to our free hotel (thanks Dad!) at the Drury Inn by Union Station.  We decided to stop by the bar in the lower level for a night cap.  It was pretty quite in there, so we mostly had the bar to ourselves, which was pretty nice.  We ordered a “flash fried spinach” appetizer which was surprisingly good.  I don’t know how they did it, but the spinach leaves were as crispy as potato chips.  I had never had anything like it before.  I had my fill of White Russians, while Heather drank some champagne+peach juice concoction (I tried some and they were pretty good).

Over all the hotel was nice.  It had a secure parking garage, which I appreciated.  Driving a convertible, I always worry about my car.  The only complaint I’d have here is that our room reeked of smoke, which neither my girlfriend or myself cared for.  There was a sign in the room that said no smoking, so some piece of shit decided to light up in there any way.  Thanks careless societal leech!  But the room was free, so I can’t complain too much I suppose.

Over all it was a fun relaxing weekend that the both of us won’t soon forget.  I can’t wait to see it again, and I hope it won’t be another 3 years before it comes back again.  If it is, maybe we can catch something else in the mean-time.  I would love to take her to Les Miserable, and I would love to see it again because it has to have been at least 10 years since I last saw it.

If you have the opportunity, I highly suggest seeing Phantom of the Opera.  It is an amazing masterpiece of music, choreography, singing, and beautiful scenes.

Why did I finally get one?

Was it because of certain people hounding me about it?

Nah… as much as he wishes

It started off because I wanted to look at other people’s picture, which you can’t do unless you have a profile AND are their “friend”.  So off I went.

Now that I have actually used it, I am ashamed to say I actually like it.  Not only is it a very nicely developed web app, but it is actually somewhat useful.  I have already stayed in better contact with my sister who lives far far away now (miss yah), and got me in touch with friends I hadn’t spoken with for a long time.

Unfortunately it has also allowed people to find me who I rather not have contact with, but for them, there’s the ignore button.

The ability to easily share photos with friends, set up events, and just generally stay in touch is surprisingly useful.

So here, I finally admit it.  Facebook isn’t all bad, and it is somewhat handy.  So, if you haven’t tried it yet, get on the bandwagon finally and get yourself an account.

I can’t belive it’s going to be November already.  WHERE DID OCTOBER GO?!

Anyway, have fun and be safe out there.  The girlfriend and I plan on feeding the little monster roaming the neighborhood for a while, then heading out for a delicious D’Arcy’s Pint Horse Shoe.

I leave you with Bob’s RC Pumpkin

I had a good one!  What better way to end 2007 then helping your friend get his truck out of the ditch?  Haha!  I will hopefully get a couple pics from my other friend who took some while we were standing out there freezing.

Check back soon.

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