Well, in case you were wondering, the move went just fine. We even managed to get the cable/internet dude here on Move-In Day (Wednesday).
Unfortunately, aside from knowing how to dial his office and tell them to turn our service on, he didn’t seem to understand anything else about his job. Install an additional outlet? Sorry, he didn’t have the right tools. Put a new plug into an existing outlet that lacked one? Easy enough, except he didn’t hook the new plug onto the cable wire within the wall. Get the internet service working? Oooh, sorry. The prior owners had scheduled their disconnect for Friday, so ours couldn’t get turned on until then. Friday came and went, and we still didn’t have internet service.
So, this morning Hubby called the cable office and they sent someone right out to get our internet working. But, as for those other outlets, that would require a second appointment on Tuesday. Lovely.
Luckily, the guy who came today knew what he was doing. Five minutes in the house, and he had the internet up and the other outlets working. Plus, the cable modem he hooked up is the latest model and it’s blindingly fast. Rock on!
So, I’ll be posting the Snark Hunt tonight.* Sorry for the delay. Having already read most of the entries, I can assure you it’s worth the wait!
*UPDATE: On second thought, since I still can’t even make my way comfortably through my kitchen and my son can’t find any of his clothes for preschool until I finish unpacking a bit more, I’m going to hold off on the Snark Hunt a bit longer. Instead of posting it tonight, we’ll do a double-whammy Snark Hunt this Wednesday. That means there’s still time to get your entries in and, if you’ve already submitted one, you can go ahead and submit another, too!
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January 30, 2005 at 3:42 pm
Glad you are all hooked up! We’ve been missing you.
January 30, 2005 at 6:43 pm
Not so long ago, when I had a leased line for work (slower than molasses in January, but reliable as all get out), it decided to die on me one day – a nearly unprecedented experience in 5 years of having it connecting me to the office. I called for service and they came out fast – cause leased lines were expensive and big business for them. The guy spent ALL DAY trying to figure out why it wasn’t working. From 9am to 5pm… no luck. They sent out the second shift guy, who had been around way longer and really knew his stuff. Took him 30 minutes to fix it, including his time finishing up the paper work… sheesh! You just gotta love it when you get hold of a service person who knows their stuff! Glad the move in went well.
January 30, 2005 at 9:30 pm
What, you guys don’t have a T1 run up to your house yet?
I guess everyone cannot have the luxury of a home-based IT business.
January 31, 2005 at 4:18 am
Welcome home, Kate!