{"id":1999,"date":"2014-09-17T09:31:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T16:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2014-09-17T10:13:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T17:13:57","slug":"back-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/back-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Back Online!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whew, the website is back online. \u00a0That was a far more arduous process than I envisioned. \u00a0I don’t have much bad to say about uverse as far as the service goes, it’s been fine the year we’ve had it at our rental house. \u00a0Unfortunately, they also advertise the ability to quickly and painlessly move your service to a new location; \u00a0Not so much! \u00a0For over three weeks now I’ve been talking to those people every few days, with widely varying levels of civility. \u00a0They absolutely insist that there is existing service in our (brand new) house and the previous owners need to disconnect it before they can move ours. \u00a0And, you know, it’s possible, I’ll actually concede that. \u00a0The construction trailer was sitting on our lot for a long time, and they could have had service I suppose. \u00a0The builder says that has been long disconnected though, and after many conversations with both sides I tend to lean towards believing the builder. \u00a0At any rate, they finally conceded to move the service, and came out Monday. \u00a0Lo and behold, the installer says “oh, they haven’t run fiber to your house yet, we’ll have to get them out here first.” \u00a0At this point I escalated the situation to Donette, who immediately called and went Morelock on them. \u00a0Much to my surprise, the fiber trucks were onsite that very afternoon. \u00a0Wow, all good… \u00a0Until we told them to get the installer back out. \u00a0Nope, gotta reschedule, it’ll be a while. \u00a0Well, I actually had all the equipment from the rental house, so I got to thinking, “I wonder what would happen if I plugged this into this and that into that and….” \u00a0A few hours later everything was up and running. \u00a0The only pitfall was the phone line. \u00a0You had to call some automated service to “activate” it. \u00a0It told me there was a problem with the\u00a0line and I needed to call 800-blah-blah to get it fixed. \u00a0I foolishly went down that path, and a full hour later finally got off the phone with the nice (if incredibly maddening) lady on the other end. \u00a0One full hour of her begging me not to hang up, she almost had it fixed, she’s working with her supervisor, there is a software issue, blah blah blah blah, while I was screaming in her ear, “THE PHONE WORKS FINE!! \u00a0WE ARE ON THE PHONE!!! \u00a0CAN YOU HEAR ME??? \u00a0I CAN HEAR YOU!!!! \u00a0WE ARE TALKING ON THE PHONE!!!” \u00a0Poor lady. \u00a0She’s supposed to call me back Thursday to “fix” the problem. \u00a0(On my cell naturally, since our home phone isn’t working according to her.) \u00a0I really don’t want to talk to anybody\u00a0anymore, but I am morbidly curious to see if she actually calls me back so I agreed to that. \u00a0If she does, she will be the one and only out of every other “manager, supervisor, retention specialist, etc” to actually make good on that promise. \u00a0I look forward to the end of our contract so I can dump them and get Xfinity<\/a>. \u00a0(At which point the same issues will no doubt start all over again, just with a different company.)<\/p>\n

Other than that major (in my world) issue, I can say the move has gone very smoothly. \u00a0I would then, however, be lying. \u00a0It has been quite possibly the single worst experience of my life. \u00a0That might also be a slight exaggeration. \u00a0I guess it’s just that moving stinks. \u00a0The painter took two days longer than anticipated, and we had to work around him and all his equipment. \u00a0On one hand, it was great that he could fit us in on very short notice and paint the entire inside of the house. \u00a0On the other, it was a huge pain working around all the plastic and tarps and ladders and wet walls, and all that mess. \u00a0I also somehow got the extremely naive idea in my head that Donette and I could easily handle shuttling our household the mere four miles from the rental, by ourselves. \u00a0Luckily one of my friends recognized this plan as a\u00a0delusional fantasy, and took it upon himself to show up and help. \u00a0It was a longgggg two days, and we still have an imposing amount of belongings at the rental. \u00a0But, for now anyway, I have Internet service, so at least the odds of survival have increased greatly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whew, the website is back online. \u00a0That was a far more arduous process than I envisioned. \u00a0I don’t have much bad to say about uverse as far as the service goes, it’s been fine the year we’ve had it at our rental house. \u00a0Unfortunately, they also advertise the ability to quickly and painlessly move your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}