Last weekend Mum, Tallis and I moved out of the house that I have been living in for too many years, and moved to a bigger house closer to town, and civilisation. It was all rather unexpected and quite sudden, but we managed to get it all sorted, and now I’m lying on my bed in my rather box-filled room, due to a lack of furniture and storage space. Things are slowly getting sorted, and they are coming together nicely, but there is one thing that is very, very annoying.

Our internet connection.

Now, the landlord of the house asked that we don’t get a phoneline installed, and that if we want an internet connection, he suggests that we use an unsecure wireless network that we can find in the neighbourhood. He actually suggested we do that. I think we should request it in writing, so that we can show the estate agent, or the judge, or who ever. We went against that and called Virgin, as there was already a cable box in the house, and they could get us connected much quicker than having a BT line put in the house, and then contacting an ADSL ISP. So, we called Virgin on Saturday, and they said they could have us connected on Tuesday. Tuesday came, and UPS delivered the world’s biggest box, which contained the modem, router, TV box, etc. I plugged it all in, called them asking us to activate the modem, and sat and watched blinking lights… for hours.

We called them again, and after several “we’ll call you back”s, we discovered that a signal wasn’t being received at our end. I investigated the box on the front of the house, which is where the cable is fed from the CATV box on the pavement, and discovered that the cable from the street to the house had been cut. I was tempted to attempt a make-shift repair, but doubted it would work. So, this means that we have to have an engineer sent out to put in 3m of cable, and they’re not able to do that until the 10th of July, which is pretty damn poor service if you ask me.

Hopefully by the time that comes I’ll have a new desk sorted, my guitars will be on the wall and my clothes will be packed away. We’ll see, though.