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 �>�The Cabin by Apache Chapter 2

   I was getting hungry.  I got in the jeep and headed for town.  I had
spotted a restaurant there, and thats where I was headed.  I hoped the food
was good.

   It was excellent.  I had a big country fried stake, mashed potatoes and
green beans.  When I finished eating, the waitress brought me a large piece
of homemade cherry cobbler.  I was so full when I left I could hardly walk!
I'd be back!

   Next stop, the little grocery store.  I bought just enough for breakfast
and lunch tomorrow.  I figured I'd spend the night and leave just after
noon the next day.

   I slept like a log that night.

   The next day, I got up and stretched.  I took a quick shower and did my
thing in the bath.  I got dressed and went out the back door.  I looked out
over the lake just in time to see a huge fish rise and take an insect.  I
watched for a few minutes.  Several fish jumped up and caught insects.

   I thought, 'I just might stay another day and get in a little fishing'.

   I went into the kitchen and made myself some breakfast.  Eggs, bacon,
toast and a cup of coffee.

   I ate breakfast and went out to watch the lake.  I sat there a few
minutes and then discovered that something was missing.  I heard no traffic
sounds.  I liked it!

   I thought about my life.  I worked in an office as little more than a
messenger boy.  The pay was just enough to get by on.  I would never be
allowed to advance, because I didn't have a diploma from a name brand
collage.  Oh, I had graduated from collage, but it was one of the smalled
ones.

   I went in and did a little figuring.  From what I could figure out, I
was making more in a day in interest than I did in a week at work.  Did I
need the job?  In a word, NO!

   I had to go back into town just to make a phone call.  The cabin had no
phone or cable for TV.  So I got in the Jeep and went to town.  Right at
the edge of town I found a TV shop.  I pulled in and went inside.

   I asked the guy about getting cable TV and phone to my place.  He did a
little figuring and said,  -�For a cable line to be run to your cabin, it
will cost you in the neighborhood of twenty thousand dollars.  Thats for
the polls, wire and cable, then labor of getting it installed would be
about another five grand.  Then he said,  -�Or I could put a satellite dish
on your roof for less than three thousand including labor.  It would be
good for TV, Internet, and Phone -�.

   I said,  -�Do it -�!

   Then he asked me,  -�Do you have a TV and a computer -�.  I told him no.

   He then said,  -�I build computers, for another five hundred I'll bring
you a new wall mount TV and one of my computers -�.

   I said,  -�Install the whole thing -�.  Then I started writing a check.
He said,  -�Hold off on the check until I'm done.  I don't want to have to
refund any money after the job is complete -�.

   The next morning, I had just finished breakfast, when someone knocked on
the door.  It was the computer guy.  He had backed his van up to the porch
and was unloading things.  He put a ladder up and went up on the roof.  He
walked around a little and then marked a spot on the roof.  He mounted a
dish antenna on the spot.  He hooked up some wires and ran them down to the
back of the house.  About two hours later I was watching TV, while he was
installing my new computer on my desk, He had that set up in just a few
minutes, complete with a document scanner, printer and a huge display. 
Then he gave me the bill.  It was a lot less than I thought it would be.

   Then he showed me how to get over 500 different channels on the TV. 
This was done by changing satellites.

   He told me that I had insisted on a cable, I could only get a few more
than one hundred stations.  Then he told me that there were several porn
channels, that I might want to lock out if there were any children around.

   He gave me all of the instruction for everything with the bill.  I
checked the amount and wrote out a check.  He left.

   I now had a phone in the kitchen, one in the main room next to my chair
and one on my night stand next to my bed.

   About a half hour later the phone rang.  Who could be calling?  No one
knew my number yet.  It was the TV guy checking that the phone was working
right.  Now, that's service!

   I called a few of my old friends and gave them my number.  I found out
that my old boss had been fired for changing times on the time cards.  The
company was investigating all of the old cards to see if they owed any
money to the employees.