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faithellen) wrote2004-10-08 10:11 am
faithellen) wrote2004-10-08 10:11 am
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New thing to add to moving to-do lists...
"Add your new phone numbers to the National Do Not Call List."
OMFG, these people get your number FAST and call you all the damn time! Hate them all! It's going to take a bit before our new numbers are assimilated into the directory.
It HAS called to my attention how incredibly effective the Do Not Call List is, though. :)
We're a week into the new house, and things are coming together bit by bit. We unpacked fast and furious while the movers were still here, and sent many empty boxes back with them. Last night, Dana and I made many trips down the driveway with the rest of the boxes we've unpacked, and I estimate we've still got another 30 to go (although many of those are books, and will remain sealed until we can put in some built-ins in the library).
The electronics in the basement are all great, and the office has the correct parts on order (after 3 nights of tweaking and then a call to India revealed that two of the new things are incompatible with each other). We have placeholder curtains up in the bedroom that will get us through until we can get something made. The kitchen will be done after today, when I get a replacement back for one of the barstools.
AND, we think the trades will be done by the end of next week -- paint touch ups, tile repair, hood finishing, final light fixtures in places...little things. The big thing we're waiting on is the other low-voltage firewall -- until that's in, we have no security cameras, dimmers in many rooms, scene controllers, whole house controllers -- apparently the company is based in Florida and has been cleaning up after hurricanes aplenty.
OMFG, these people get your number FAST and call you all the damn time! Hate them all! It's going to take a bit before our new numbers are assimilated into the directory.
It HAS called to my attention how incredibly effective the Do Not Call List is, though. :)
We're a week into the new house, and things are coming together bit by bit. We unpacked fast and furious while the movers were still here, and sent many empty boxes back with them. Last night, Dana and I made many trips down the driveway with the rest of the boxes we've unpacked, and I estimate we've still got another 30 to go (although many of those are books, and will remain sealed until we can put in some built-ins in the library).
The electronics in the basement are all great, and the office has the correct parts on order (after 3 nights of tweaking and then a call to India revealed that two of the new things are incompatible with each other). We have placeholder curtains up in the bedroom that will get us through until we can get something made. The kitchen will be done after today, when I get a replacement back for one of the barstools.
AND, we think the trades will be done by the end of next week -- paint touch ups, tile repair, hood finishing, final light fixtures in places...little things. The big thing we're waiting on is the other low-voltage firewall -- until that's in, we have no security cameras, dimmers in many rooms, scene controllers, whole house controllers -- apparently the company is based in Florida and has been cleaning up after hurricanes aplenty.
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What do these words mean?
Can you email me your new address?
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Scene controllers are the size of a light-switch plate, and they can control (using magic) many different light sources, so you can have "cooking" or "romantic" or "nighttime" presets -- set each of the light sources to the brightness you like, and then bing! Press one button and it changes everything to that scene. Each controller has 4 or so buttons, so you can have different scenes set up for each room (and outside lights, too).
Whole house controllers (which we don't have any of yet, so I know even less) control all the scene controllers. So I can stand in my bedroom and push a few buttons, and all the lights in the house can go off or on. OR, if we had children, I could see that they had turned on lights in their room, all without leaving the comfort of MY room.
Stuff like that there.
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Technology is grand. :-p
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I think that they scan the city records for recent title transfers.
Welcome to the joys of Home Ownership.