Siriusly Good

Ok, so the title is uninspired… but whatever, it’s still early. Anyway, I hooked up Jess’ Sirius satellite radio on Sunday and I have to admit, I’m actually quite impressed.

While she seems to be ashamed to admit it, Jess has become a fan of Howard Stern. Being that he has moved over to Sirius, I thought it was an obvious Chrismukkah gift for her. She was a bit hung up on the $12.95 monthly fee, and so was I to some degree, but after using the service for almost a week now, I’m completely sold. Beyond the 2 Stern channels, there are 118 channels of music, sports, news and entertainment stations . And to my surprise, we also get CBC Radio One and CBC Radio 3 – Being that they’re obviously not available over terrestrial radio in California, that little reminder of home is worth the monthly fee alone.

It was somewhat of a pain to get installed and ready to go, and everything was admittedly thrown together at the last minute as a makeshift test to see if we were going to keep it or not. I’ve got a long wire running along the floor of the bedroom to the antenna just beyond the back door, a huge box suction-cupped to my windshield with a wire running to the antenna in the back seat, and am paying $12.95 a month. But hearing my wife laugh out loud every morning makes it all worthwhile.