We have the internet!

Yes, today a rather tall Comcast installer (he hit his head on the way up the narrow staircase) gave us the power of 5 megabit internet.

I honestly don't have any idea what "5 megabit internet" means. What I do know is that, in one of those fun twists, with special promotional pricing 5 megabit internet is $7 cheaper than 3 megabit internet.

Sign me up.

However we did cheap-out on the television, opting for the plan that only gives us NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, the CW, C-SPAN, PBS, my-TV, some French Canadian channel, local access and shop-NBC.

Granted, it was forty-something dollars cheaper than the option that gave us 64 channels.

And at the time I signed up, I thought Friday's Red Sox game was on Fox. It's not. It's on TBS again.

Damn!

So when are we ever going to get the chance to have cable a la carte? Honestly, I'd pay $5 for ESPN, $5 for Comedy Central, $3 for the Food Network, $2 for Cartoon Network ... shoot, $10 for TBS (at least for the month of October).

But then nobody would buy SoapNet and Home & Garden TV and TVLand and ABC Family ... right?

At least a 16 episode multi-pass of The Daily Show is only $10 on iTunes. Just downloaded the first episode now. Gotta put those 5 whole megabits to use ...