{"id":24580,"date":"2014-10-02T12:30:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T17:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=24580"},"modified":"2014-10-08T21:38:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T02:38:59","slug":"moving-day-ii-the-movening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=24580","title":{"rendered":"Moving Day II: The Movening"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note that the photos in this post are unrelated. They’re just pictures I took while wandering around the neighborhood. Also because I think the Pepsi-door looks kind of strange and cool. <\/p>\n

We are moving. Aside from the normal hassle of cramming things into boxes, hauling them somewhere else, and taking them out of the boxes again, I also have to make the phone calls to the utility providers:<\/p>\n

The apartment building nearby. They have a really bad case of dish overgrowth.<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

Me: Hi, I’m moving. Please activate service at my new address ASAP, and discontinue my old address at the end of October.<\/em><\/p>\n

Gas Company: No problem! You’ll have service at the new place tomorrow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Me: Hi, I’m moving. Please activate service at my new address ASAP, and discontinue my old address at the end of October.<\/em><\/p>\n

Water Company: No problem! You’ll have service at the new place within two days.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Me: Hi, I’m moving. Please activate service at my new address ASAP, and discontinue my old address at the end of October.<\/em><\/p>\n

Power Company: No problem! You’ll have service at the new place tomorrow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Me: Hi, I’m moving. Please activate service at my new address ASAP, and discontinue my old address at the end of October.<\/em><\/p>\n

Cable Company<\/a>: Please hold. Your call is important to us. So important that we’re going to make you wait for ten minutes, just so you we can both cherish the importance of this call. <\/strong><\/p>\n

(Ten minutes later.)<\/p>\n

Me: Look, I just need you to activate service at my new address ASAP, and discontinue my old address at the end of October.<\/em><\/p>\n

Cable Company: I don’t understand. How can you have service at two places at once? Are you two people? I’m so confused. We can’t give you service in the new place until you discontinue the old. We can send someone around maybe in a week or so at the earliest. And by the way, would you like to sign up for cable TV?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My town is STILL coping with the death of downtown shopping. Old shells of long-dead department stores are just now being torn down, three decades after all the shoppers fled to the suburban malls. I think this crater used to be a Woolworths.<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

As as result, I’m about to go into internet isolation until the cable company locates their technician, sobers him up, gets his creepy 1970-era van serviced, and explains to him how to find my new apartment. If I’m very lucky and nothing goes wrong, I should return to the internet on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

I actually went to my cable provider page and logged in. I was thinking maybe instead of transferring service I could open new service, and see if that would sort things out. When I clicked on “Shop for Plans” I got YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO VIEW THIS PAGE. Yes, I’m not even allowed to look at the pricing of new packages while logged in. I mean, I could log out and try again, but their website is ghastly to use and it doesn’t want to show you anything until you’ve created an account. And all they want to do is sell television. Their internet packages are all sort of grudgingly tacked on, and you have to really dig to find a plan that doesn’t include television. <\/p>\n

We live in a world where the candle-makers are in charge of selling people electric lights, and it’s pretty clear their heart just isn’t in it. <\/p>\n

I respect banks for sticking to an architectural theme and not tarting themselves up trying to be hip and modern.<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

Shamus! Didn’t you just move? Why are you moving again? Why so suddenly? Why don’t you stay at the old place until you have internet service at the new? <\/em><\/p>\n

The answers to all of these questions will be explained when I return. I wrote The Twelve Year Mistake<\/a> during my last moving-based internet blackout, and I think I’ll do a similar thing this time. It’ll give me a way to stave off insanity, anyhow. <\/p>\n

What about Spoiler Warning? What about the Diecast? Where’s my free content?<\/em><\/p>\n

I dunno. I’ll be in the savage untamed wasteland of NO INTERNET this weekend. Maybe the crew will make some content without me. Maybe not. I’ve left it up to them if they think the show is worth doing. <\/p>\n

Wish me luck. See you guys in a million years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note that the photos in this post are unrelated. They’re just pictures I took while wandering around the neighborhood. Also because I think the Pepsi-door looks kind of strange and cool. We are moving. Aside from the normal hassle of cramming things into boxes, hauling them somewhere else, and taking them out of the boxes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}