On Cars and FiOS

Every week, we change cars. No, it's not because we're rich, it's because Jojo travels every week and so he needs a car. He can't take ours coz then I won't have anything to use. So he rents one every week, paid for by his company of course. These are the last 3. We weren't able to take pictures of the previous ones but from now on, I'll be posting our car of the week.

We've been waiting for FiOS to become available in our area for a long time and finally, it's here! We had it installed on Wednesday (we're the first ones in our neighborhood too BTW) and it took 5 hours to finish! First he had to run a cable from the pole to our house and then set up the "brains" inside our apartment, change the cable box, connect the brains to the tv and phone, set up the wireless router which is somehow linked to everything as well, add another box for Finn's room, test the connections, test the internet and after 5 hours, everything was a-ok. So now we've got the power of fiber optics for our TVs (picture is awesome) with DVR so we don't miss a show, we've also got TFC now coz Comcast didn't have it, and what I'm so very excited about is I get to watch anime 24/7 with FUNimation!!!!! No more fighting over who gets to watch in the living room coz Finn has his own box with all the channels available plus ondemand (^_^) I also like the way they organized their channels. Local TV gets the first 49 channels, then entertainment next, then sports, then news, information, etc. Like Finn, all he needs to know are the kids channels and all he has to do is go up or down a channel, unlike with Comcast, 43 and 44 is Nick, 136 is Disney, 13/21 is PBS, it gets confusing.
Another good thing about FiOS is it's amazing speed! I uploaded 140 hi-res pics yesterday and it would have taken the whole day with DSL but it only took like, 10 mins or less? AMAZING!!! I'm telling you, if you have FiOS available in your neighborhood, get it! We got the triple-play bundle so we now also have long distance for the US and Canada with caller ID. It costs about the same as when we had Comcast plus DSL and phone but you can't even compare the two. FiOS is definitely superior. Hmmm ... I think Verizon should pay me for this entry (^_^)