California travels
Jul. 17th, 2019 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nosrednaydujMy parents move went smoothly; lots of help from my stepfather's family. Then we've been shopping til we drop, and receiving deliveries of furniture that was pre-ordered. They did manage to get beds for the first night, but every day is an adventure of "we don't have one of THOSE???" Today we went to the thrift store to see if they had a couple of chairs for their bedroom and there was an enormous teddy bear for $6. My mom had a giant teddy bear before the fire and she fell in love with this one, so we got it. And they had some perfect chairs, too. It was the best shopping trip ever.
My sister's off at the temporary house for a week, closing it up and tying up some loose ends with her business, so I'm so far keeping pretty busy doing stuff with and for my parents. Not sure if this will subside.
We got comcast today; they were here for over 3 hours setting up three TVs, internet, and phone. Interestingly, one of the TVs is connected by a wireless cable box, because the room was very far from where cable goes into the house, and hadn't been given an original wired connection by the builders. The cable guy said that would be just as high quality signal, and not require unsightly wires going everywhere outdoors. Picture quality remains to be seen -- I see some fuzzy bits periodically, but I also saw them on one of the wired sets, so maybe cable is not really up to the job of today's e-fucking-normous TVs.
But, anyway, I have INTERNET! and so I can post more easily than with my phone. My parents have been pining for TV; I've been pining for internet!
My sister's off at the temporary house for a week, closing it up and tying up some loose ends with her business, so I'm so far keeping pretty busy doing stuff with and for my parents. Not sure if this will subside.
We got comcast today; they were here for over 3 hours setting up three TVs, internet, and phone. Interestingly, one of the TVs is connected by a wireless cable box, because the room was very far from where cable goes into the house, and hadn't been given an original wired connection by the builders. The cable guy said that would be just as high quality signal, and not require unsightly wires going everywhere outdoors. Picture quality remains to be seen -- I see some fuzzy bits periodically, but I also saw them on one of the wired sets, so maybe cable is not really up to the job of today's e-fucking-normous TVs.
But, anyway, I have INTERNET! and so I can post more easily than with my phone. My parents have been pining for TV; I've been pining for internet!
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