Naturally, when you move into any new place, you have to take care of the essentials. Unpacking. Changing your address. And, of course, setting up an internet connection. I could give you the big three hour ordeal that took place this morning, but that would bore both of us. Suffice to say, I was pretty upset when it wrapped up. I chose not to order anything from them, and I think this IM conversation with a friend of mine sums up why.
Me: I think I'm going to get DSL from Qwest.
Friend: Why bother with DSL? Isn't it easier to get cable from Comcast?
Me: Because Comcast pissed me off.
Friend: Fair enough.
So, that's the status right now, and I think I'll hold off on officially ordering cable TV for a bit too. Instead, I'll watch shows via iTunes. It's cheaper since I don't watch that much TV anyway, plus I can take the shows to the gym on the iPod and multitask. All in all, good solutions.
In other condo news, I unpacked six boxes last night, but you can't really tell. My cats are pretty excited about all the boxes because it's like catacombs for them. I think they'll be sad when I finally get it all put away. And speaking of cats, I took my first shower today with the new shower curtain. Those cats were watching me. Not sure how I feel about that.
FYI - still behind in email and LJ comment responses. Sorry. :(
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also... pirate! its what everyone else does.
Or I haven't read up too much on cell phone data plans, but the pricing for them has gotten a lot more reasonable than it used to be, so maybe you could go wireless hi-speed that way.
Clearwire!!!
http://www.clearwire.com/
If I didn't have outstanding business (read: editors) contacts on Comcast I would be done already and over to Clearwire.
We opted to go this route with Comcast:
Broadband for the internet
Basic $8 bare bones cable in the 3rd bedroom we affectionately call the 'den' that never gets used. It saves us $10 on the bill to have a 'bundled' service.
For our viewing pleasure we use Direct TV via satellite dish. Other than heavily windy-rain storms we haven't had any issues with it.
Good luck!
yeah,movin' on......
Willow
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The cat shower curtain is still awesome. If you're worried about appearances, you can do like Icydol posted the other day and get a fancy curtain to hang in front of it.
Regarding the cat shower curtain, I'm not going to show that to my wife. We already have a cat that likes to walk into the shower and hangout while we are showering. While I love our cats, I imagine having a shower curtain like that would be disconcerting. But look on the bright side, its better than a reflective mirror shower curtain.