Monday, August 17, 2009

technology, even old versions, do not like me

so earlier today i tried to get online to check my email. i have dial up here where i live (it's real fun) so i dial up, and get a message "no dial tone." that sometimes happens. so i dial again, and again and again. i think for a moment "did i pay the phone bill this month? did i even pay it last month?" i have a hard time remembering these things because i have so much to do every day between work and the animals. i was quite sure i payed it, so it must be something with the line. my line is above ground, strung willy-nilly through the trees, sometimes a branch falls on it and knocks the phone out. i went out and followed it all the way to the pole, nothing wrong there, so i check the little box on the side of the house and it looks ok there. (sometimes moisture gets in there and causes problems) i notice there are 2 lines coming out of the box, i had forgotten the people that lived here before had connections upstairs as well as downstairs, so i follow each of those. the downstairs one looked ok, the upstairs one though looked like it had been through a meat grinder. the dogs hed gotten ahold of it and chewed it up (they got to it on the stairs outside) so my solution was to cut it, since i do not use it anyways. i was going to use scissors, but thought there is electricity in those wires, and i hate getting zapped, even if it is a tiny zap. i went back downstairs and grabbed an ax, and went back and chopped that stupid wire! as you can see, the phone line is back to normal.

2 comments:

  1. But you're good at putting those old, crotchety tech systems in place, just like you put bad dog owners in place!!

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  2. Yes my grasshopper, you have learned well from all the teaching you got from me.
    Jo and the dogs

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