With a title like that, it sounds like we’re in for some serious, Successories style inspirational discussion, right? Sorry to disappoint, but it’s not going to be.

I’m having a bit of a withdrawal lately. You see, the weekend before the new year I switched from Dish Network to AT&T’s new U-Verse service. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a combination of IPTV and VDSL, and it’s pretty great I think. I’ve read some people don’t like it very much, but I’ve got fiber to the premises (FTTP) rather than fiber to the node (FTTN), so my data transmission is pretty clean. I’m really glad I upgraded.

Anyway, as much as I’ve enjoyed the service and geeked out about the technology behind it, I was quite crestfallen to discover one little hiccup in my perfect plan for media consumption.

I have lost my ability to watch Cutlery Corner Network.

Yep. No more channel 216 to bring the soothing sounds of Tom O’Dell to me on Friday nights. Instead, channel 216 now brings CNBC. Not soothing.

Well, I shouldn’t say that I’ve completely lost my ability to watch CCN. They still broadcast on ION from 3am-6am on Sunday mornings. I’ve set a recording for 2am on our local ION affiliate to see what I get. I’m not going to hold my breath too much.

I’ll be pretty sad if I have to let ol’ Tom slip out of my life. It’s not like the exclusion of that channel’s a deal breaker for me… U-Verse is a superior service even in its infancy. It’s just that it’s been such a big part of my life for the past few months that it’ll be weird to not have it.

I just read that last sentence and realized how pathetic that is. Jeez.