Moving sucks!

[starzki]

scribefigaro and I have officially relocated about 20 miles down the road.  Moving sucks!

We're not very happy about the move, but it was necessary.  Scribe's commute was terrible and this will save him about two hours of driving a day.  He had to suffer through rush hours of two difference metro hubs, and now he only kind of has one.

But this move does mean that we're living in a slightly smaller apartment that's slightly more expensive.  I had to say goodbye to the walk-in closet (*sniff*).  I also have to figure out where all of the stores, vets, doctor offices, and gyms are in this new area that I've only ever driven by in the past.  That's a pain.  Finally, and most sadly of all, we had to say goodbye to our neighbors.  We had a good set at our last apartment building and we all really looked out for one another.  Even the "weird" guys in the building, though... off, stayed to themselves and were incredibly quiet.  (One would even hide from me if he saw me coming.)

The move itself was about the nightmare we expected.  Hard, hard work.  My thighs are a-burning today after all of those stairs.  We even hired movers that were expensive, but worth every penny.  We've started making the place look like "ours" again, which is nice, but it's currently almost 2PM and we've not delved into a single box yet, today.  Oh well.

Also, Comcast is the suck.  It took 5 service calls and roughly 2 hours on the phone for them to figure out the cable box they sent us does not work for our zip code. *headdesk*  So we'll have cable tv... probably never, the way things seem to be going.

Okay, enough complaining.  Now is the time for more procrastinating on my work before the school year begins (on Tuesday)! Yay!

Comments

[luxken27]

Huzzah for making it in one piece! Hopefully things will fall into place faster than you expect :)

I feel for you, having to deal with Comcast, which is probably the only cable service worse than my own. This is why I just ante up and let them send a tech out to install anything new - so when the inevitable problem arises, there's someone there to fix it, LOL :P

[starzki]

We got the weirdest runaround when it was time to switch. We normally have satellite tv, but we're in a north-facing apartment now and the property won't let us put a dish anywhere but our balcony. So we thought it wouldn't be too hard to switch because we already have Comcast for internet.

However, since we were adding features as well as moving, they have no idea what to do.
"Oh we can set up cable internet at your new home!"
"Great, but we want TV now too."
"Okay, we can set up television where you live now!"
"No, we're moving, so we need it at the new place."
"System error! System error!"

Seriously. We asked 10 times to send the new cable box to the new place. They sent it to the old place. Every time I called up to try to activate the box, they would be like, "What's your address?" and I'd give them the new address and they'd be like, "Uhhhhh. But it says you live at [old address]" "I KNOW, I JUST SAID WE MOVED HERE TODAY AND NEED THE CABLE TV HERE TODAY."

Blah. So, like I said, we finally found someone who could find her ass with both hands and she figured out that they sent us a box that would only work in our old area, not the one we moved to which was what we needed. They're sending a new box "soon" and it "should work."

[luxken27]

Yeah, I've felt your pain. Acutely. Seriously, it might be worth it to close your account and open a new one with your current address. Which is so fucking stupid I can't even, but there you go.

I'd love to have DirecTV, but alas. We can't have anything permanent mounted on any part of the property.

[starzki]

Actually, DirecTv can be set up without doing anything permanent. We've had one installer bring in his own pole to mount the dish to, then secure it to the balcony with zip ties. I've also seen them just dig a hole to set up the pole with the dish, then run the line inside.

There are ways...

[luxken27]

Some people do have the dish-on-a-pole setup around here. When the property management turned over there was a HUGE to-do about them, too. IDK. Since I'd have to use Charter (or AT&T, which I've heard is just atrocious) for internet anyway, we figured it would be easier/cheaper to bundle. And since I don't pay the bill, I don't get much of a say, LOL.