Just giving everyone who might try to call us a heads up that we have disconnected some of our Charter Cable services to cut expenses — including our phone service. The price on our package plan inexplicably went up almost $40 and it was kind of the last straw, after all the other issues we’ve had with them. We would have switched to Bellsouth DSL but it’s actually cheaper to keep the cable modem so we’re not quite free of them. As of 5:00 PM Thursday we will only have the cell phones. We’re also ditching our digital cable; we’ll miss HGTV and the Weather Channel but overall I think it’s a good thing to get away from the mindless chatter and constant ‘buy this new drug for this disease we’ve made up to sell it’ commercial brainwashing.