Time Warner

     Ever since Time Warner moved the Cable Sports channels from Basic Service to Standard Service, and Cable Sports moved to Channel 50, and channels can be delivered in digital format only, therefore viewable only with a digital set-top box, or Digital Adapter or Cable Card, that meant the Golf Channel was no longer available on our bedroom TV, unless we requested a Digital Adapter which was free of charge until December 1. 
    Well, the call was made; I was not home at the time.  The adapter was picked up; I didn't go.  But the instructions as to how to connect it did not work. Believe me, there were calls made; I left the house.  Brother Don, who'd been through the same thing (or so it was thought) tried to help, but after several house calls on his part, had to admit failure.  More calls were made, in vain as it turned out.  The problem was such that a repairman had to come to our house.  He is here as we speak.  He has been in the bedroom, into the deepest recesses of the closet where the wire emerges, easy enough since the closet is only about six inches deep.  He has gone into the cellar twice so far, and is at present climbing the pole outside.  He is a HVC graduate and very polite and apparently cheerful.  He even put on those cloth booties when he came into the house, the kind that the police investigators did not wear during the O.J. Simpson slaughter investigation. After he left the house the first time, I told him he didn't need to put them on again.  He asked if I were sure.  "Definitely," I said.  I 'm willing to make any sacrifice to get that golf channel.