Week in review

Been a rather busy week. I was booked out pretty much every day. No complaints there. I closed a nice home network install in Clarksville thanks to Terry at Dream Theater. Hes building a HUGE home theater/home automation system and needed my help to get the computers, home theater and the other stuff talking to each other. The wife and I also celebrated our 10 wedding anniversary this week. The new standard for a 10 year anniversary is roofing shingles :-)

Don Kennedy Roofing showed up this week and installed our new roof and gutters on the house. Looks MUCH better, and the wood wasn't as bad as we though. We did run into a problem with the Dish service. The roofers had to remove the dish to install shingles. The re installed the dish RIGHT back in the same place, but no signal. I called Dish and was told...pay for service or crawl up there with a compass and go for it. I tried the compass thing...no dice. No matter what we did...nothing. Now...I'm not a complete moron...222 degrees is just that. Called them back and they were pretty dismissive. The 2nd call center person (I won't call them a tech...that's insulting to techs) huffed like we were bothering her so I ended the call in mid sentence. Called Comcast and got a pretty good deal on a 2 tuner DVR and installation. Called Dish back to cancel our service and all of a sudden we were offered a free dual tuner dvr, free installation of that and re-installation of our dish in a different location. I told the retention guy "funny...if your other call reps were that helpful we wouldn't be having this conversation"
The thing that sucks is now we have NO television at all...except for the rabbit ears I hooked into my Macbok through the Eye TV interface. We don't have anything else in the house with a tuner built in. Comcast won't be here until Tuesday....all weekend...no real tv. Forza2 here I come
Oh well...the new roof looks better without the dish on it anyway. Another thing...they sold us two dishes to get the "all the channels" well...the one dish that didn't get touched was still working. We got all kinds of good stuff like the Pentagon Channel...the Heath and Human Services channel...crap like that. It was like what I think of in China or Cuba. Nothing but government supplied entertainment.