Really, Comcast?

Hermine didn't do much here. As far as I can tell, other than wind gusts in the afternoon that nearly sent the dog and I flying, the rain before the storm was waaaay worse.

So naturally when I wake up, Comcast is out. Even their main numbers aren't working. Wtf.

Memories.

You ever want to feel weird, look up the house you grew up in (if you don't still live there) and see how it's changed. I thought I'd done this more recently but apparently I missed it going up for sale last winter-ish. Still, Google forgets very little and I poked around the pictures and tried to match up rooms with my memories and holy shiitake mushrooms did the people staging this place (or living there) have godawful taste. (we're talking animal shaped rugs and deer heads on the wall, with white walls and absurdly oversize chandeliers) It's so weird to try and mesh that with what I grew up with. It didn't help that I knew that the people who bought it from my mom had built an addition to the back so any room that would be affected by that would be wildly different from my memories... but some rooms were pretty easy to figure out.
The front hall, for one, though they got rid of the nook under the stairs. (Woe. I wonder if that means the wine cellar area is also gone?) The old TV room is different but still identifiable due to the brick walls. Ditto the room above it. The dining room was stripped of all personality (a moment of silence) but easily enough figured out as well. Everything else changed due to the addition or they didn't include enough pictures to ID which bedroom was which.

So. Weird. Also, encouraging ivy to grow on your house is still a bad idea and looks really bad when it's in a rectangle, sorta like giving your house a soul patch. Don't do it. If you're gonna commit to a bad idea, you need to either have it completely take over or go wild.