I continued tonight stripping the door jams so we can meet Thor’s goal of putting the trim back up this weekend while Thor cleaned and got things ready for the Martin’s to come for a work weekend this weekend. Finally when he seemed done, I looked over at him and said “whatcha doin’?” I guess I didn’t say this casually enough because he replied with “Why, what should I be doing?” The answer, putting our phone line back in so we can get our internet.
Since we had ripped out all of the walls with phone jacks, Thor had to reinstall one in the office. Apparently this ended up being pretty easy because it only took him around 1/2 an hour. After that It wasn’t too hard getting the internet set up. I followed the instructions in the box and got connected to the router, but ran into trouble from there. Called AT&T and the guy very nicely walked me through the rest of the set up — a good thing since there were no instructions for any of the steps that he took me through. Another 30 minutes later and we were up and running. Hello world!
Thor had fallen asleep by then, and didn’t get to appreciate the moment, or my dance of joy.
No, progress on the house hasn’t stopped, we are still moving full steam ahead. We moved in on Friday as a matter of fact. We’re been out of touch because we still dont have internet set up at the new house. Right now I feel like once I get home I am suddenly in a black hole. Our house has become a pit in which we are suddenly cut off from the world, and our time and energy is sucked away, and am paralyzed because I can’t do anything else but work on the house. It was a little sobering to realize that I really can’t live without internet.
After some back and forth, we had decided to go with DSL. Even though it’s slower, it’s so much cheaper than Comcast, who I feel like they sucker you with their introductory rates, and their customer service sucks. We’ve been happy with the customer service at AT&T so far, and they’ve been very accommodating after we canceled (when I learned that we would have to install the DSL ourselves, and I thought we could get a better deal somewhere else) and then promptly reinstated our service 1/2 hour later when we realized how much Comcast was charging.
However, we are still facing the challenge of the self-install. The set-up package arrived yesterday and I’m going to try to get it running tonight. Although I am a pretty tech savvy person, these things never go smoothly, and I know that there will be some problem. Problem number one will certainly be that we demo-ed all of the walls that had phone jacks in them, so there are currently no phone lines anywhere in the house. After that we’ll see how I do following all of the technical bruhaha.
If I can get the internet going tonight, tomorrow the cable people are going to fix our initial install (right now we only receive local channels, cinemax, and about 50 home shopping channels. Anyone needing to buy gemstones, I’ve seen a deal or two for you!), by Friday we should be up and connected to the world again. I hope I haven’t missed much.