Welcome to Lisle, The Arboretum Village.
So we moved in the weekend of the 28th. I had some great help from my Father-in-law, and two high school friends. …And 3 cases of water. it was 100 degrees that weekend. The rest of my family helped out running baby interference. We got it all over to the new house. Lots of it is still sitting in the garage ready to be put away.
All real estate sells. It's just a matter of when. We're currently holding 2 mortgages, which we will be able to do for about a month. That's pressure.
Also, it was after we'd agreed to buy the place that I found out that there wasn't a single telephone jack or cable jack in the entire house. I have done both, and can do telephone wiring easy, but cable is tricky. I bought a TV cable tool off ebay to make the job easier. I finished cabling what I could do yesterday. 4 Phone jacks and 3 cable jacks. I think it took me 10 hours in total. Lots of time in a filthy attic putting ends on wires.
I still haven't cut the grass. I'll be lucky if the neighbors don't call the village on me.
I'll never do business with UHAUL again, and I'd discourage any of you from as well. They do this just-in-time scheduling thing where they call you the night before and tell you where to pick up the truck. Per their guarantee, they're supposed to call you by 5 pm the night previous. I spent 3 hours on hold with them trying to find out why I didn't get my call. They called at 8 AM the next morning. fuxx. It made things a lot easier to have a 26-foot moving truck though. It only took 2 trips. Plus, you feel like a total trucker because you're 6 feet off the ground. WEEEEW!
Also, they don't tell you until late in the day where you are required to drop the truck off. That was a 2-hour odyssey trying to find this office in Bolingbrook along a frontage road.
Comcast was supposed to hook up our cable, phone, and interned on the 31st originally, then they pushed it off til the 2nd, and then today. The guy is there. However, they can't do the phone until Friday. Monopolies are evil, everybody. This is America, and they are anti-American. blee dat.
Here is a picture of Miette chilling in her new room. No walking yet, but trying, and lots of talking.
All real estate sells. It's just a matter of when. We're currently holding 2 mortgages, which we will be able to do for about a month. That's pressure.
Also, it was after we'd agreed to buy the place that I found out that there wasn't a single telephone jack or cable jack in the entire house. I have done both, and can do telephone wiring easy, but cable is tricky. I bought a TV cable tool off ebay to make the job easier. I finished cabling what I could do yesterday. 4 Phone jacks and 3 cable jacks. I think it took me 10 hours in total. Lots of time in a filthy attic putting ends on wires.
I still haven't cut the grass. I'll be lucky if the neighbors don't call the village on me.
I'll never do business with UHAUL again, and I'd discourage any of you from as well. They do this just-in-time scheduling thing where they call you the night before and tell you where to pick up the truck. Per their guarantee, they're supposed to call you by 5 pm the night previous. I spent 3 hours on hold with them trying to find out why I didn't get my call. They called at 8 AM the next morning. fuxx. It made things a lot easier to have a 26-foot moving truck though. It only took 2 trips. Plus, you feel like a total trucker because you're 6 feet off the ground. WEEEEW!
Also, they don't tell you until late in the day where you are required to drop the truck off. That was a 2-hour odyssey trying to find this office in Bolingbrook along a frontage road.
Comcast was supposed to hook up our cable, phone, and interned on the 31st originally, then they pushed it off til the 2nd, and then today. The guy is there. However, they can't do the phone until Friday. Monopolies are evil, everybody. This is America, and they are anti-American. blee dat.
Here is a picture of Miette chilling in her new room. No walking yet, but trying, and lots of talking.
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