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Moving is always a bitch…My good friend Chris said the other day, “it’s one of the worst things you can do…ever…voluntarily or not.”

I must agree.

Anyway, so I tried to get all the utilities and phone hooked up. That has proven to be an exercise in futility. The electric & gas company agreed to provide electric only–no gas–because of my credit (which is currently under repair) and requires a $200 deposit payable with the first bill. Bastards…

They referred me to another gas company. That company agreed to provide gas, but only after paying a $150 deposit UP FRONT. Fuckers…

And then…this is really good…the phone company, THE COMPANY I WORK FOR, totally FUBAR’d my move order. They instead disconnected my service at the old location and put in an order for new service at the new. I know you’re probably wondering, “what’s the difference?” Well, not much…except when you “move” your usernames and passwords for your internet access stay intact.

And as if that weren’t good enough, they said I wouldn’t get service till the 5th!! That’s next Monday!

Luckily, I used to work in the highest level of the complaint department, and I expected such nonsense. I made some calls, got the username reactivated. I called in another favor and got the installation date expedited for today.

Well the tech shows up, and lets me know that he’s going to install the service. Luckily, I walked outside and told him that the extra phone wire coming through the outside wall was for the DSL modem. He looked at me and said there was no order for DSL.

WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!

So, I again make calls. Order for DSL is placed manually. Of course, at first my phone number didn’t qualify for DSL because the order to install phone service hadn’t been completed yet. Bypassed… He checks the new order, and tries to get it assigned to him. Doesn’t happen. But luckily, another tech picked up the job to connect DSL. At first that was scheduled to take place this Saturday. After more “WTFs” I called in more favors and had the date pushed up to today.

So I come inside, try to boot my laptop. No dice. I do a real quick reorganization on my spare room and setup my PC. Then the ethernet connection (which uses nifty little transceivers to connect via the electrical wiring in my home) doesn’t work. So I stretched my trusty 50ft piece of Cat 5 from one bedroom to the next.

And there you have it. That puts me right about…Here…typing this.

More good news

I finally get a call from the transmission shop regarding The K5. The transmission is apparently not rebuildable–needs a new case. The bill just went up to $1450…nice. It would’ve been even nicer had they told me that a few days ago. They’ve had it for 6 damn days. It shouldn’t have taken them that long to get back to me.

At this point, I’m just trying to take it one day at a time.

Did I mention that I bailed out of work at 12:30pm so I could come home and let the dogs out? That’s right…still no doggie door. Hopefully tonight.

DirecTV can wait (did I really just say that?)

Pickens out…

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