Better late than never

It had been a thorn in my side for a year and a half, the fat-free donut to my Charlie Weis, a one-man climb up Everest (or Trashmore, you decide).

You see, since I moved into my current apartment in August of 2007, I have complained almost every single day to anybody who would listen about the horrible cable package in the building. (Yes I know that there are more serious issues out there than a stupid cable package, but just roll with it, all right?) The TV in my living room got around 40 channels, ranging from your normal MTV, Nick and Comedy Central to obscure, like Independent Film and the NFL Network. But never any ESPN.

Thankfully, that changed over the weekend. Why? Who knows. The fact is, when I went into work Saturday afternoon, my TV lineup didn’t include the Worldwide Leader. When I arrived home, after making some food, I flipped around the channels looking for something to put me to sleep and realized I was now getting ESPN-News. Thinking this was just a part-time thing, I spent the rest of the night watching the highlights and analysis I hadn’t seen in so long.

Sunday morning, in-between watching college hoops, I checked the channel again. Still ESPN-News. Proud of my Magellan-like finding, I watched some more Sunday night, getting highlights of the Cuba vs. South Africa World Baseball Classic game I never would have seen otherwise.

Then this morning, even greater success was reached. During a ride down my elevator, in the place where the day’s weather is usually posted (BTW, does that make sense to anybody, putting the weather report in the elevator? You’ve already left your apartment with what your going to wear outside, what’s the point of telling you then?) was a sign that said “ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN-Classic and ESPN-News now available on cable package”. I nearly punched a whole in the elevator wall, Andy Bernard style, only it wasn’t anger, it was sheer joy.

Now its true I have waited a year and a half for this cable package, and I recently decided I won’t be living in this apartment for next school year (partially because of my lack of ESPN). I missed all of college football and 95% of college hoops. And there will be no way of knowing if this change occurred because of my constant complaining and the fact every time we had to take a building survey, I would mention the bogus cable package before anything else.

But I say it's better late than never. Now if you’ll excuse me, Pardon the Interruption is on, and I can finally go watch it.