Non-Lazy Sunday.

Had a wonderful time at sultrysong's party last night. I was very reluctant to leave at midnight when I did, but any later and it would not have been possible to get home before morning. Yet another reason I wish I lived closer in to the city. Had I still been living in Westmount then I could have gotten home within an hour, no matter when I left. As it was I left at the last possible moment to be able to get home without a multi-kilometer walk, and it still took an hour and forty-five minutes to get home.

I was delighted to discover that taxlady had finished up much of the remaining work in the basement while I was gone, so today all I have to tackle is a few handyman chores involving moving some wires around and drilling holes for some others. First though, I need to finish waking up.

Telephone Forensics.

Just spent much of the last hour with taxlady tracing phone lines to figure out how the house is wired. We have two phone lines, and there is much evidence that lines have been cut, spliced and re-routed in the past. We have determined that the repositioning of the house's main phone junction box is unlikely to be the horrible disaster I had feared. The one line that may have to be cut and rerun is a short line for a single jack, not the feed for the upper two floors, as I had believed.

If I screw up its wiring, all we'll lose is that one jack. I would be far more confident of the job if they didn't insist on color-coding the wires. Worse, this is Quebec so I can't even trust that the right color wire was used for the right signal, even if I wasn't color blind and could read the wires. Now, I do have a phone tester which I plan to use to ensure that after I have opened up and played with the innards of a box, that the phones are correctly wired.

There's only two problems:
 

1. Its output is color-coded.
2. Its telling me that one of the houses two lines (the original one) is universally mis-wired.

Okay, first I'm going to go and read up on correct phone wiring procedures in my Library Book of Same, and then I shall grit my teeth and do the job. If we lose all phone and internet connectivity for the next six months, you'll know what caused it.

Whew!

If you can read this then we successfully moved the junction box and once more have both phone and Internet.

... and if you can't read this, the fault is entirely at your end. :-P

A Simple Test.

So, here's a simple test: Does the following fishy image freak out blacksquiggles?

( Click to find out! )