08-08-2026 — Should have susprectrummed

Howdy all.. Hey, it drizzled some early this morning. Maybe a quarter inch fell. Good enough for today’s garden watering. But still super dry out there. We may see more on Saturday, or into the beginning of the week.

My back is doing somewhat better. No Advil since yesterday morning. And while trying to sleep last night, if I didn’t try to breathe in too deeply, barely noticed the back issues. Today, so-so. I did laundry, and bending down and twisting to reach into the back of the dryer, reminded me that the back is not back to normal.. YET.

My head on the other hand is ready to burst!!   I just got off a phone call with Spectrum, again.   Yesterday I was on a 3 way call with them and Disney streaming. While Spectrum did close my account, they left me using them for streaming services to Disney and a couple other apps. We (Disney rep and I) fought for almost two hours, and was passed from useless person to useless person.  

The Disney rep was also getting quite frustrated with their ineptitude.  Spectrum needs to send a disconnect to Disney to say Spectrum is no longer managing the payments service. The Disney site can’t let me cancel Spectrum payments and sign up standalone with same email that I have used for decades.  

What was really annoying was the spectrum people kept trying to convince me that restarting their service and letting them hook me up through their WiFi TV and I wouldn’t be paying as much as I had been paying.   I think it was “only” $225 or so, instead of the $312. Gee, that means they were sucking profit from my wallet for a long time. And still, it would be a lot more than I will be paying though.  I kept demanding they quit trying to sell me sheet and cancel the streaming apps payment management. 

It was a total waste of time yesterday. So, afterwards I used a different email to sign up for Disney bundle package without ads.   The Disney rep thinks I’ll be able to switch email addresses back, if I ever get the normal email address free from Spectrum.  

Anyway, today Spectrum sent me an email saying the disconnect for TV and internet was completed yesterday. Nice to get that.

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Hello Jody,

We're confirming your request to disconnect your services on August 06 2026.

If you chose to keep any of your streaming services, you can continue accessing them with your Spectrum.net credentials. You'll be automatically billed for these services at their standard price.

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But, as you see, I need to cancel the streaming apps or they will continue to charge me monthly for them at an increased rate.  

Ugh !!! So I tried, again today, and still can’t do that online.  I can’t delete my credit card information either.  Nor could I turn off autopay.  Thus, I called back to Spectrum, and this time I got lucky, by getting someone with at least half a brain.  He did kill autopay and the card on file. And he told me that the subscriptions remain until the end of billing cycle.  The 10th of August for my account. If I don’t use them, nor add a way to pay for them, they will be canceled automatically.   Although he isn’t sure if it means another billing cycle after that or not.

Ugh.  I hate Spectrum with a passion.

They don’t make it easy to Enjoy Life