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myrialux again. It's been a comedy of errors - the first AT&T installer discovered that the phone line was cut, so it had to be fixed, and the second installer discovered that the outlets weren't grounded, so that had to be fixed. The electrician failed to call and failed to call and eventually scheduled Friday to come out, and then because of rain was delayed and rescheduled for "first thing Saturday morning" and at 10:30, shortly before myrialux was set to call AT&T and re-delay the install, which had been delayed from the morning to the afternoon, showed up. And luckily he'd brought his skinny apprentice, because the entrance to the attic oops-I-mean-crawlspace is tiny. But we now have a grounded outlet in the living room and a grounded outlet for the washing machine and the AT&T U-Verse install was all set to go.
It took a long time - all Uverse installs do, for some reason, and we discovered all SORTS of weirdness during the process. Such as this: the cable outlets in the living room enter into the hot water heater and A/C closet in the garage before going up into the attic. And when the hot water heater was replaced, whenever that was, whoever had installed it had set one of the legs of the stand directly on top of the coax cable. Destroyed. Had to fix that. And there was a splitter somewhere up in the tiny attic that was causing a problem, so more cable had to be run because neither the installer nor us had any intention of attempting to crawl around in that tiny space looking for it. But it was fine and yesterdaymyrialux and I sat down and watched a lot of television and set up all our DVR recordings.
We are inexplicably getting only 1 HD stream instead of the 2 we're supposed to get, but that is a minor problem in comparison to not having internet at all, so we can worry about that later this week.
There was a lot of rain on Sunday, and we've discovered a leak somewhere in the roof/attic that is seeping out of the archway between the living room andmyrialux's office. Sigh. And there's a water leak somewhere on the property, as we discovered when we received a $345 water bill. We talked to the water people, who sent a guy out to look at the water meter again and confirm it was a leak and not a misreading, and they'll adjust the bill once it's fixed.
BUT WE CAN SURVIVE ALL OF THAT. WE HAVE INTERNET. OK, I can't work at home untilmyrialux's dad mails us myrialux's old router, which he'd given his parents but they're not using, so we can set up a second router and get stronger signal back in my office, but WE HAVE INTERNET.
The kitchen and master bedroom are completely unpacked and put away. The rest of the place is still a sea of boxes, but now that internet has arrived, I hope we can get the rest done before too long. (What, expect me to unpack all my books without listening to my podcasts? MADNESS) We have curtains up in the living room, which prevents anyone from peeking into the garden room and thence the living room and seeing the TV, and also darkens that area of the living room, which pleasesmyrialux.
myrialux again. It's been a comedy of errors - the first AT&T installer discovered that the phone line was cut, so it had to be fixed, and the second installer discovered that the outlets weren't grounded, so that had to be fixed. The electrician failed to call and failed to call and eventually scheduled Friday to come out, and then because of rain was delayed and rescheduled for "first thing Saturday morning" and at 10:30, shortly before myrialux was set to call AT&T and re-delay the install, which had been delayed from the morning to the afternoon, showed up. And luckily he'd brought his skinny apprentice, because the entrance to the attic oops-I-mean-crawlspace is tiny. But we now have a grounded outlet in the living room and a grounded outlet for the washing machine and the AT&T U-Verse install was all set to go.It took a long time - all Uverse installs do, for some reason, and we discovered all SORTS of weirdness during the process. Such as this: the cable outlets in the living room enter into the hot water heater and A/C closet in the garage before going up into the attic. And when the hot water heater was replaced, whenever that was, whoever had installed it had set one of the legs of the stand directly on top of the coax cable. Destroyed. Had to fix that. And there was a splitter somewhere up in the tiny attic that was causing a problem, so more cable had to be run because neither the installer nor us had any intention of attempting to crawl around in that tiny space looking for it. But it was fine and yesterday
myrialux and I sat down and watched a lot of television and set up all our DVR recordings.We are inexplicably getting only 1 HD stream instead of the 2 we're supposed to get, but that is a minor problem in comparison to not having internet at all, so we can worry about that later this week.
There was a lot of rain on Sunday, and we've discovered a leak somewhere in the roof/attic that is seeping out of the archway between the living room and
myrialux's office. Sigh. And there's a water leak somewhere on the property, as we discovered when we received a $345 water bill. We talked to the water people, who sent a guy out to look at the water meter again and confirm it was a leak and not a misreading, and they'll adjust the bill once it's fixed.BUT WE CAN SURVIVE ALL OF THAT. WE HAVE INTERNET. OK, I can't work at home until
myrialux's dad mails us myrialux's old router, which he'd given his parents but they're not using, so we can set up a second router and get stronger signal back in my office, but WE HAVE INTERNET.The kitchen and master bedroom are completely unpacked and put away. The rest of the place is still a sea of boxes, but now that internet has arrived, I hope we can get the rest done before too long. (What, expect me to unpack all my books without listening to my podcasts? MADNESS) We have curtains up in the living room, which prevents anyone from peeking into the garden room and thence the living room and seeing the TV, and also darkens that area of the living room, which pleases
myrialux.
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I will never forget talking to the cable installer from a gas station in Fort Stockton as I was making my way to College Station.
"No, I won't be there...I'm still halfway across Texas, there's no way I'm going to make it by 5...they told me that since the house had previously had cable, I wouldn't need to be there for activation...YES, I want the internet turned on...no, I don't need you to show me how to hook up my modem."
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Boo on all the leaks though. Hope you can get those fixed quick. ^_^
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ESSSSEEEEENTIAAAAL!