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i haz teh awsum
Feb. 16th, 2009 10:10 pmFollow-up to this post...
( saga of kludging things together )
Next telephone challenge: the satellite-TV guy is scheduled to arrive on Sunday to install a satellite dish and one or two receiver/decoder thingies (one in the living room, where the main TV is, and one in the attic, where there's a surplus TV that we never use but might if we got the attic clean enough to use as a sewing room). For reasons I don't entirely understand, the receiver/decoder thingies have to be connected to a phone line. (Among other things, they use this for "loss prevention": they periodically check remotely that each receiver/decoder thingie is connected to the phone number it's supposed to be connected to, and if it's connected to the wrong phone number, they disable it and come knocking on your door.) There is AFAIK no phone jack anywhere in our dining room or living room, and the nearest phone cord AFAIK is the one in the kitchen with the aforementioned kludges on it. There might be a phone jack in the dining room wall, but the most likely place for it is behind a 7'-tall, 12'-long wall unit that's currently full of books, glassware, china, and other heavy stuff that I don't want to move on the off chance of finding a phone jack behind it. I guess we'll discuss this with installation-guy when (s)he arrives.
( saga of kludging things together )
Next telephone challenge: the satellite-TV guy is scheduled to arrive on Sunday to install a satellite dish and one or two receiver/decoder thingies (one in the living room, where the main TV is, and one in the attic, where there's a surplus TV that we never use but might if we got the attic clean enough to use as a sewing room). For reasons I don't entirely understand, the receiver/decoder thingies have to be connected to a phone line. (Among other things, they use this for "loss prevention": they periodically check remotely that each receiver/decoder thingie is connected to the phone number it's supposed to be connected to, and if it's connected to the wrong phone number, they disable it and come knocking on your door.) There is AFAIK no phone jack anywhere in our dining room or living room, and the nearest phone cord AFAIK is the one in the kitchen with the aforementioned kludges on it. There might be a phone jack in the dining room wall, but the most likely place for it is behind a 7'-tall, 12'-long wall unit that's currently full of books, glassware, china, and other heavy stuff that I don't want to move on the off chance of finding a phone jack behind it. I guess we'll discuss this with installation-guy when (s)he arrives.
