oh, Turkey

Just a quick update today to inform all nine of you of a rather strange development. Yesterday while the nephew was cruising the channels, I noticed that several of ours were not showing up on the channel guide. I was hoping that it was some sort of a glitch, but today when I turned on the telly (to catch my favorite, Mrs. deGeneres!) those same channels were gone.

I asked Kaan to call the company (DigiTurk) and see what the problem was. We've been having these strange issues with our home add ons (I can't think of what else to call them: things like electricity, water, television. Utilities would work, except TV isn't a utility. Anyway!). For about two days, our electricity was gone. When Kaan went to check at the electric place, they said not only did they not cut our electricity, our bills were all paid up. This is strange because I haven't received a bill since January! Strange. But so Kaan called up DigiTurk to see what the matter was. According to them, the channels we weren't receiving were being transmitted as normal. Baffled, we went up to the terrace to check our dish; perhaps something had been broken.

So we get to the terrace and it turns out, the down stairs neighbors have put THEIR dish RIGHT on top of ours. I couldn't believe it. On the same pole, facing the same direction, even covering the top of our dish. Unbelievable! We're thinking that's the problem. Unfortunately, they aren't home, so we can't complain. Does this happen anywhere else? Maybe I just haven't lived in enough big cities, but I don't think anything quite like this would happen in Colorado Springs or Denver.

The weird thing is I watched Ellen on Thursday or Friday. I can't recall a lot of noise on the weekend, so I don't know when they would have stealthily handicapped our dish. It's a mystery! I'm eager for them to come home so we can work this out. Until then, I'll try to catch some Ellen clips online!