If my responses to your comments and emails are a little slower than usual, here’s why:
That slender cable is my (and my neighbours down the street from that point) connection to the outside world (phone/internet). It’s been like that since the 8th of June:
8/6/13 10:57 am
From Telecom Support: Your Land Line issue has been resolved for xxxxxxxx. If you still experience issues please call 125 using case # xxxxx. If a temporary divert was set up, dial 160 on your landline then hang up to cancel and avoid additional charges.
Funnily enough even though both my phone lines were disconnected for a few days, the broadband didn’t fail. (Whew!)
Right now, my phones and all my uncapped-bandwidth-unlimited-uplink-downlink-speed goodness is travelling through that lil’ multi-pair cable. (Apparently a 100-pair cable failed underground and it’s troublesome to fix it. Dunno.)
It’s a miracle. One for which I’m very grateful.
– P
That doesn’t look good!
I’ve had power problems too. As a part of our kitchen renovation, we have had to upgrade all our wiring, some of which was very old and even bare. Today the electrician turned off the power for several hours so that he could do a whole lot of work on the box itself. Still more to do next week, there have been a few delays due to the recent storm that’s kept all the tradesmen run off their feet this week.
It doesn’t take much to disconnect us from all technological advances we normally enjoy, I’ve discovered recently after the storm we had a brownout for a couple of hours last Friday.
By an amazing coincidence that cable is being repeated this morning —the day after blogged about it!
https://twitter.com/onThePaepae/status/350393395610533888
Yes, you’re right. Lucia Maria, about how *dependent* we become on our technological umbilical cords. ‘First world problems’, as the saying goes.
I saw a wood burner featured on TV3’s Firstline that has a built-in thermo-electrical generator to drive the fan which circulates the hot air, like ours does (love it) … and also sports a USB port to charge cellphones, iPads etc. That’s cool.
Good luck with your renovations! – P