We stayed home all day waiting for people to work on the house. The internet guy showed up a little after 10. It took him a couple of hours to do the install. Apparently the people who used to own the house had two lines installed. One was a "commercial line", whatever that means. It was installed in the apartment.
It was way too wet to work on the lawn, so while he was doing the install I went out to the garage to unpack some of the stuff we brought. I put away some of the stuff. The rest will have to wait until I put up another cabinet to put it in.
When I went back inside the install was finished. That's when the crap started. We had to take the TV off the wall to connect up a LAN cable. That was a pain. Then I couldn't get the audio to work. After a lot of time spent trying to figure out what was wrong, I found that the digital cable from the TV wasn't connected. The reason it wasn't was that it was broken off. Crap.
The cable was plugged into a converter. I glued part of the connector back together. Unfortunately I can't get the rest out of the converter. That means that I'll have to glue the connector to the converter. That will work as long as the converter doesn't fail. Replacing the cable is something I don't think I could do withough help. Ellen really can't lift the TV any more.
The ADT guy finally showed up late in the afternoon. He worked for almost 3 hours connecting up all of the new hardware. The new camera is really cool when you look at it on the phone.
We aren't looking at streaming video yet because I have to wait until tomorrow for the glue to dry.
Tomorrow is the DirectTV guy. They didn't give me a time when he will show up.
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