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March 18, 2005
Strike Two...
I should have known that the Comcast install wouldn't be painless. A crew from a Comcast subcontractor showed up to install cable, and left nearly as quickly - having decided that they couldn't do it. Apparently the "site drawings" they were given consisted of a rough sketch of the surrounding roads, a box representing our house, and indications of "heavy brush" where our blackberry brambles are.
Their mission was to trench a cable from the public road, across our property, to the house, then run it around the house and hook it into the existing interior wiring.
No one told them there are trees on our property. And that it's not flat.
In theory they're supposed to come back next week with the network engineer from Comcast to have a pow-wow and see what, if anything, can actually be done.
I guess when Comcast told me they'd done a site survey what they meant was they had driven past at 40 mph and caught a glimpse of the house as they passed.
I'm anticipating an eventual "sorry, we can't do anything for you" sort of answer.
Which seems to suggest that if we want TV (something I'm not really attached to, but do find handy on occasion) it's either rabbit ears, or deforestation...
Posted by dberger at March 18, 2005 10:02 PM