Welcome back! Sorry for your loss, I lost my father as well around the same time, March 4, to be exact. (Wow, it's been that long.) I haven't had cable TV in 6 1/2 years now! I use the antenna (put it up in the attic), and I get 55 channels where I live. Half of them are in Spanish and I don't understand them, but I don't watch broadcast TV much anyway. I also have Netflix, HBO Now, Hulu Plus, and Amazon Prime. Combined it all costs less than $50/month, way better than cable, plus I get the streaming music, free shipping, and all that. BTW, why are you doing the painting? Is that not the landlord's job? Anyway, back to making games!
MAME Cab PC: i7 4770@3.4Ghz (passmark 9945), 12GB RAM, Win 10/64, GeForce GTX645 (passmark 1898); Shiny new laptop: i7 4800MQ@2.7Ghz (passmark 8586), 16GB RAM, Win 10/64, GeForce GTX870M (passmark 3598); Old laptop: i5@2.3Ghz, 8GB RAM, Win 7/64, Intel 3000 graphics