Adjustment Cycle

Things have been a little rocky in starting the adjustment to Ohio life. Mostly Kelly has born the brunt of trouble. She was accosted by one of Josh's friends who proceeded on an hour long diatribe about how she should 'get a job, for the sake of her marriage'. I'm not quite sure how he thinks that line of reasoning would fly while he sat in Diana's house... but I think it just has to do with his particular divorce situation.

After that some strange man smoking a cigarette stole up to our porch and took my daughter's jumprope. We know it was a man with a cigarette because that's what our daughter told us after we'd calmed her down from her hysteria, she had seen him out the window as she was going to sleep, by the time we figured out the problem it was too late to catch the thief. I'm still not quite sure what kind of ass just takes a child's jumprope, but I'm beginning to think it was a mistake because after Kelly put up a note about the jumprope and I had called the office, the rope appeared on our door while we were returning from getting dessert. Still it left Kelly and my daughter a bit traumatized and an general not a good introduction to the local populace.

Also our stuff isn't here. The mover who had initially said that the stuff would be here on the 7th (which was two days after we got here). Had changed his estimate when he got to our house to the 9th. That was frustrating but there was little we could do, since that was THE DAY of the move. Excitingly, the mover called yesterday to inform us that our stuff won't arrive until Monday the 13th. Yes a full week after the original quote, and his response to my angry query is: 'well that's within the spread of time I was allotted, so sorry there's nothing I can do.' I would suggest avoiding Belfor Moving as a rather slip-shod operation. I'll post more once I find out what condition my stuff is in.

Finally yesterday Kelly had a radio show slot to fill so she started broadcasting and halfway through her show the internet cut out. She called the cable office and tried to get their troubleshooting but all they could say was 'the modem is offline, are you sure it's plugged in'. So she missed the rest of her radio show, but after I got home from work I fiddled with the modem and found that the splitter the cable guy had used to plug in both the modem and the cable box to the same coax was causing the interference. Plugging in just the modem solved the problem and we are back on the internet. But until I had fixed it Kelly was frustrated because the 'technician' that they wanted to send to fix the internet problem wouldn't have been able to be there until Saturday. Half a week with the internet down is pretty unacceptable.

All in all a bit of a rocky start to our time here. But hopefully after we get our stuff we'll have smooth sailing.