First the Dish. After the internet was installed, Dish network came and installed our TV. When it came time for him to activate our service, Dish Network had no record of me or my address...odd since the installer was sitting in my living room at the time. So I went ahead and set up the account once again. He said it would take up to 30 minutes for the channels to show up, which was fine with me because I had to take Neville to the vet anyway (btw...we have a healthy kitty!). I stopped back home and saw that we still had no channels. I called the installer back who told me to call Dish Network. So I called Dish and......
They had no record of me or my address. AGAIN!
I had to go teach an ANGEL training session, so I called Chance and told him to deal with it. Of course, when he turned on the TV, he still seemed to have all of the channels minus local channels. So he called Dish Network and they were able to match our service with the registration number on the receiver. Apparently our service was registered to an Emily McCarthy in Vera Beach, FL. No wonder we didn't have any local channels! After some headache, they worked it out. Chance actually talked to the top account supervisor who apologized many times for the confusion. We now have 200 channels, many in HD and 2 DVRs. Pretty cool!
Next, the painting. Saturday we painted the living room and Dining Room. We chose an off-white. The original was a bright white that looked dirty. We also are going to paint the wall behind the steps that was originally bright green. We primed over it yesterday, but haven't painted over the primer yet. Here's before and after pics:
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And finally...The plumbing. Mama McWorthy started some laundry and when she went downstairs to put it in the dryer she discovered water all over the basement. It appeared that a drain in the basement had backed up when the washing machine drained. We had to call a plumber and luckily we found one that works 24/7. Even luckier, it they happened to have a "plumbing special" this weekend where the visit was discounted from $175 to $60. Wow lucky us! Originally the plumber thought it was just the drain that needed to be cleaned out but it was actually the main line into the house. Yep, we have tree roots. We've cleaned it out for now and he said we should be ok for about 2 years, but eventually we will have to replace the pipeline into the house. Today's adventure cost us 500 dollars that we weren't expecting to spend in the first week of home ownership. He treated the line for roots and it takes 8 hours to go all the way through. So that means no water tonight. We should be able to shower in the morning, but no toilets, sinks, or anything till around 2AM tomorrow morning.
In other news, Neville gets declawed tomorrow. He's been through so much trauma the past couple of days after being contained upstairs on Thursday and then downstairs on Saturday while we painted and upstairs again while the plumber was here today, and then he goes in for surgery tomorrow! He's a little less itchy since the vet gave him a cortisone shot for allergies so he's getting better. His whiskers are starting to grow in too. He's also starting to do stuff on his own now!
Hope everyone had a great weekend!
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I just had Roto-Rooter out here 2 or 3 weeks ago for the exact same thing. Mine was only $170, plus I got a year's worth of treatment. He was here 2+ hours and snaked the pipe about 6 times before he was done. He pulled out a garbage bag's full of roots. Did he do a camera down your line? Why is he saying you'll need to replace? Tree roots are actually pretty common & something serious needs to happen for it to be replaced. We need to share tree root stories.
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