Friday, April 8, 2011

Some slow progress

I finally have the bids and the insurance company assessment of the damages so I can now get started on the repairs. At least there is light at the end of the long tunnel. I hope they can get started right away so that we can move forward with the sale.

Also, I now finally have TV. I don't think I commented too much about this, but it has been another minor ordeal to get it. Comcast came out almost two months ago to install cable but they first needed to pull a cable from their distribution box to the house. In the process they broke the string they were using to pull the cable through the conduit and at that point they were stymied. At least four guys came out with supervisors and they said they couldn't do anything to supply service to the house. I mean this is Comcast that has enormous resources and they can't figure out what to do!! This is their business for God's sake. So I called the contractor who has been doing some work here and he came out and we pulled another string by using my shopvac and sucking it through the conduit--took 5 minutes. We then bought a lot of cable and pulled it through--no problem. All in all, maybe an hour including going to get the cable. If we had had the cable, like Comcast, it would have taken total maybe 20 minutes. And Comcast couldn't do it. I wish I could go with another provider, but ATT doesn't service this area with U-verse (some sort of deal with Comcast I am told). And DirecTV couldn't figure out how to connect the dish to the cable on the roof. So I'm stuck with Comcast, but at least I can now watch the news.

So things are gradually happening, and that gives me hope that someday I can get back to a normal life. By the way, my new address is:

1356 Lake Pointe Parkway
Sugar Land, TX 77478
Cell: 281-414 2426 (Unchanged)
Landline: 281-491-7982 (New)
Email: alannies@gmail.com (unchanged)

There is room here for guests so please visit.

1 comment:

  1. Sorry for the trouble. I'd like to help in getting this resolved. Please feel free to contact me if you;re interested in my help.

    Thanks,

    ComcastMark
    Comcast Corp.
    National Customer Operations
    We_can_help@cable.comcast.com

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