I am SO over it

My cable service, that is. The cable company's been telling me for a month and a half that the reason I'm geting crappy service is that the wiring in my building is old and the management company won't agree for the cable company to replace it. So, the cable technician and I have hobbled it along for several weeks, jury-rigging it so I can have Internet, until two days ago, it just went out completely and refuses to hook up at all. My management company tells me "it's in the signing process" and replacement could begin as early as next week.

Sure. Whatever.

I'm over it. So today, I may have been foolish - I don't know - but I ordered DirecTV because there are no DSL providers in my area (and even if there were, the phone lines in my building are also crap, apparently - I was told that the first day the cable people showed up to install). It includes something called Wild Blue satellite Internet service. Does anyone else have these services? Do they work well? Am I stupid? Tell me things to look out for ...

(And yes, this is probably part of my crankiness the past couple of days. Sorry if I've offended anyone unnecessarily in fandom. I'm just over all this on top of trying to get used to a new state and city and job and trying to make friends after only a couple of months. No, I have no stress, why do you ask?)

Mourning

This was my very first DMC icon, before I ever knew it would be called DMC, Photoshopped in the summer of 2005, I believe. Or earlier, possibly. And certainly before I ever knew I'd have problems with a sequel.

*sigh*

Whether you love or hate the entire series, it's ending as we know it - even if there are further adventures of Jack, Gibbs & Limited Company, the team we've come to know is no more after tomorrow. And despite all, I've mostly loved it. As I said in a post last week, it's sort of like graduating college, in the sense of time passage, new experiences and people met, and having to move on to something else new.

It's the first fandom in which I got in on the ground floor and have been with it the entire time, for better or ill. For DMC, I kept spoiler-free, but I was so disappointed that I read everything I could about AWE to ensure it wouldn't happen again. Yesterday I bought the AWE soundtrack and played it while making dinner; I had to turn it off partway through, even though it's quite good, because I started feeling sort of sad. (If I weren't dealing with Internet and cable nonsense, it'd probably be less severe, but it would still be there.)

Anyone else experiencing this? Or are you just glad to have it over with?