Fix It Day
Dec. 6th, 2006 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
countessmouseI watch precious little television. In fact, I watch so little that it took me nearly a month to realize that I wasn't receiving all of the cable channels I should be for the service I signed up for. Even more pathetic was the ten minutes it took me to get the customer service rep at the cable company to understand what exactly I was missing. Granted, I've moved a bit around different parts of the city, but I'm pretty familiar with the cable TV set up. Some cable-specific channels may move around a bit from area to area, but your local network, PBS, and a few others tend to remain in the same spots. My "new" cable has local community college access channels in the lower numbers (where the local network channels usually are), a version of Weather Channel that is very unhelpful, a huge gap between Channel 45 and 95 of nothing but whiteness and some of the usual cable stations are missing as well. I'm paying for the Standard Cable package, but it is definitely not what I'm getting. After much discussion with the customer service rep, the cable guy is stopping by between 5-8pm tonight to see what I'm talking about and hopefully fix the problem.
I noted in a previous post that the movers dropped my dining room table when I moved last month. After calling the company about the status of my claim multiple times and asking when I would hear from the furniture refinisher, no return phone calls, and my thinly-veiled threat last week of legal action if I didn't hear something soon, the furniture refinisher finally called me on Monday and we agreed that he would stop by tonight as well. The owner of the moving company has some idea in his head that it will only take an hour to fix the damage, but he hasn't seen the gouge the size of a large fuzzy caterpillar that now graces the top of the table along with a number of scrapes and nicks. I think some sanding is going to be involved here and I want my table back in time for the holidays if the refinisher has to take it to the shop. (Kind of reminds you of the Grinch and the Whos' Christmas tree, doesn't it?)
Last Sunday, instead of finding the Christmas presents that I was in search of at the outlet mall, I stumbled upon all of the pieces of furniture I needed to finish out my living room -- an end table, a coffee table, a console and an entertainment armoire -- all on sale, of course. So, Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday to me, I've got four new pieces of furniture. The downside (besides getting it all up to my third floor apartment)? No ski trip in January for me. I'll let![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
count_gunthar tell the saga of getting the five heavy boxes up two flights of stairs and how we put the console together backwards twice before we got it right. This weekend, the coffee table and the "armoire of terror" await our assembly efforts. Gunthar wants wine while we do it, but that may be a bad idea.
I noted in a previous post that the movers dropped my dining room table when I moved last month. After calling the company about the status of my claim multiple times and asking when I would hear from the furniture refinisher, no return phone calls, and my thinly-veiled threat last week of legal action if I didn't hear something soon, the furniture refinisher finally called me on Monday and we agreed that he would stop by tonight as well. The owner of the moving company has some idea in his head that it will only take an hour to fix the damage, but he hasn't seen the gouge the size of a large fuzzy caterpillar that now graces the top of the table along with a number of scrapes and nicks. I think some sanding is going to be involved here and I want my table back in time for the holidays if the refinisher has to take it to the shop. (Kind of reminds you of the Grinch and the Whos' Christmas tree, doesn't it?)
Last Sunday, instead of finding the Christmas presents that I was in search of at the outlet mall, I stumbled upon all of the pieces of furniture I needed to finish out my living room -- an end table, a coffee table, a console and an entertainment armoire -- all on sale, of course. So, Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday to me, I've got four new pieces of furniture. The downside (besides getting it all up to my third floor apartment)? No ski trip in January for me. I'll let
count_gunthar tell the saga of getting the five heavy boxes up two flights of stairs and how we put the console together backwards twice before we got it right. This weekend, the coffee table and the "armoire of terror" await our assembly efforts. Gunthar wants wine while we do it, but that may be a bad idea.
