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Phone line fuckups
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 12:41 amWell, here we go, amusing story, *grumble*
At around...11 something, the phone line that my computer it attached to died. No dialtone. There has been construction down the street that knocked out our other line a few days ago...but that was while they were actually working over there. So dunno what really happened.
Now, after the initial panic, I thought that this would be the perfect time to work on NaNo...no internet to distract me. So what do I do? I call![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
michelleann68, since I was IMing with her and it is very rude to leave a conversation, and jabbered to her for...awhile. Well, until the cell phone battery died out. Thinking 40 minutes or so. The phone turned itself back on and I talked for another 5 until it was completely drained...hope I didn't kill it too badly.
After that, I set to work...I dug out the phone cord that the computer is using, which is quite long. My goal: to get it set up to the other phone line which is in the next room on the far wall. This cord only reached just past my door. I went to fiddle with the other phone, to see what was hooked up to what.
I have this phone line splitter thing...that I can plug in two lines into it, so I needed to find a way to get another phone cord from the second line to it and hope it worked.
20 minutes later (the cords were real tangled), I had a line from the second jack to the answering machine. The answering machine to the second phone. The second phone to an extra phone cord that was to an old phone we hadn't thrown away. And the extra cord to the splitter.
AND IT FUCKING WORKED!!
*happy dance* :D
Now, I hope the problem gets fixed tomorrow, because the string of objects connecting the two rooms will piss Mom off to no end ^.^
At around...11 something, the phone line that my computer it attached to died. No dialtone. There has been construction down the street that knocked out our other line a few days ago...but that was while they were actually working over there. So dunno what really happened.
Now, after the initial panic, I thought that this would be the perfect time to work on NaNo...no internet to distract me. So what do I do? I call
michelleann68, since I was IMing with her and it is very rude to leave a conversation, and jabbered to her for...awhile. Well, until the cell phone battery died out. Thinking 40 minutes or so. The phone turned itself back on and I talked for another 5 until it was completely drained...hope I didn't kill it too badly.After that, I set to work...I dug out the phone cord that the computer is using, which is quite long. My goal: to get it set up to the other phone line which is in the next room on the far wall. This cord only reached just past my door. I went to fiddle with the other phone, to see what was hooked up to what.
I have this phone line splitter thing...that I can plug in two lines into it, so I needed to find a way to get another phone cord from the second line to it and hope it worked.
20 minutes later (the cords were real tangled), I had a line from the second jack to the answering machine. The answering machine to the second phone. The second phone to an extra phone cord that was to an old phone we hadn't thrown away. And the extra cord to the splitter.
AND IT FUCKING WORKED!!
*happy dance* :D
Now, I hope the problem gets fixed tomorrow, because the string of objects connecting the two rooms will piss Mom off to no end ^.^
