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May. 19th, 2006 05:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gilanaOK, this is really weird. I just tried to use my landline phone, and got no dial tone. I remembered that had happened the other day; at the time I thought maybe there was something wrong but didn't have time to deal. But this time there's clearly something wrong, so I started exploring.
The phone is plugged in to the answering machine. The cord at the back of the answering machine had come out. No problem, plugged it back in. No dial tone.
Hmm. Follow answering machine cord through rats nest of wires, under the dresser through the forest of shoes, and find that it goes to... the TiVo. Which is using an ethernet connection, not the phone wire. The connector on the answering machine has a splitter on it, but no second wire anywhere in sight. And the really weird part is... I can't find my phone jack. It's been a long time since I needed to plug anything into it, and it's not the obvious one by the doorway... Huh. I wonder where I hid it.
Aha! Just had a sudden flash of memory (after moving a mountain of crap to search) and there it is, completely in the clear, about a foot to my left. With a cord hanging out of it. Presto, dial tone. Now if I could only find my shovel for my crap...
The phone is plugged in to the answering machine. The cord at the back of the answering machine had come out. No problem, plugged it back in. No dial tone.
Hmm. Follow answering machine cord through rats nest of wires, under the dresser through the forest of shoes, and find that it goes to... the TiVo. Which is using an ethernet connection, not the phone wire. The connector on the answering machine has a splitter on it, but no second wire anywhere in sight. And the really weird part is... I can't find my phone jack. It's been a long time since I needed to plug anything into it, and it's not the obvious one by the doorway... Huh. I wonder where I hid it.
Aha! Just had a sudden flash of memory (after moving a mountain of crap to search) and there it is, completely in the clear, about a foot to my left. With a cord hanging out of it. Presto, dial tone. Now if I could only find my shovel for my crap...
