Don't count your chickens before they are hatched!

Well, we decided to change to Direct TV and become modern with DVR because Dish dropped ABC which Lost is on. It would save us some money because of the special they would offer changing companies, etc. It all sounded good, although you know us, that decision took days and hours. We finally make the decision and I call and make the arrangements. They tell me someone will be calling me within 3 days to set up an appt. About 5 days later I realize that they still haven't called. I call them and they say I haven't signed up. After you know the typical "hang on I will see what happened", they discover that the name and phone # connected to my account isn't correct. So she takes about 15 min or more trying to change that and discovers she can't do it and someone else will have to do it. But she does make an appt. for me and it is 5 weeks later!!!! I think oh well, we have lived fine w/o it all this time so whats another 5 weeks. They send me an email to confirm my info and the name and phone # is still wrong. I call and they work on it and finally they get it right. About a week before our appt. I get an email saying that they are coming on the date they said they would and our time slot is between 12AM-1AM!! I think boy this company is not very together. The day before they are supposed to come I decide that I should call and ask what the real time is so we can be prepared. I find out they have changed the date WITHOUT notifying us and it is a week later!!!! We would have sat around all day wondering where they were. Our new appt is supposed to be between 12-4pm. We get all ready the night before make sure all the rooms are clear and ready. About noon Steve starts pulling the TV's away from the walls, and about 3:30pm the guy calls and says he's not going to make it by 4, he is running late and it will be be in the 4-8pm time slot. Disappointed but oh well. About 6:30 he still hasn't shown up so through the wonderful technology of caller ID, I call him and he still isn't done!!! Now we all know this is not summer and it is going to start getting dark soon. He shows up at 7:45!!! He actually thinks he is going to install it, a 3-4 hour job!! He then proceeds to tell us all the many holes he is going to drill and that he has never done a job with 3 dvr's before and that means..blah, blah, blah. We tell him that we think it is too late at night and that we want him to come back the next day. What a shock-(not!!) he can't squeeze us in he has appts already scheduled for the next day. We are trying really hard now not to start yelling and swearing. We tell him we want a first thing in the morning appt. no matter what. He calls in and they say they can fit us in on Friday morning. We say okay. So we spend the next 24 hours trying to decide if we still want this knowing all the things this means that we weren't expecting. We even starting wondering if we just wanted to cancel Dish, and Direct TV and just use DVDs and the Internet. In the end we decide to go with Direct TV and put up with all the unexpected things. Friday morning comes, I get up forgo my morning exercise because the installer will be in all the rooms I exercise in. He shows up about 8:15 and Steve takes him all around the house inside then outside, and Steve comes in and says to me that it looks to him like we won't be getting Direct TV after all, they want to drill holes into our roof to install it.! Dish put the dish on our fascia boards but Dirct TV won't do that. Well, on the coast you drill as few holes possible in your house and you never drill into your roof!!!! The wind will drive water into the smallest holes. We aren't newbies to the coast. Steve gets on the phone and talks to the head guy and they won't budge. So after all that we send the guy away, we sit down at the table and both sit in shock and disappointment for a few minutes before we say anything. What a mess! Oh well, life amazingly will go on! Ha Ha. So we are still in the dark ages. We are thinking about upgrading with Dish to dvr, but I am not holding my breath!

The other day I wrote about this in my journal and thought about how we let ourselves get so upset about things of the world, and Steves response to me when I said that to him was, "we live in this world!"

Well, other than that excitement I have a crazy weekend, Salem for WW's tomorrow, and Corvallis for church on Sunday. Hope you all have a great weekend. Love you all!