from one minute to the next . . .
Water, which is abundantly falling from the heavens and melting from the recent freeze, is grounding out my land line. The dial tone goes first. It started with a buzz on my phone a couple of months ago, but I thought it was at my end.
Only recently, when it cut out completely, did I walk the hundred yards or so to the grey box that Qwest provides to find out that there’s no dial tone there. Then I walk home and . . . the dial tone is back on . . . with a horrible buzz. Wait 10 minutes and it’s gone again.
Jaza, in the Philippines, told me tonight that she could see that it was a grounding problem. How can she tell it all the way from there? Magic, I tell you. And it’s daytime where she is and nighttime here. She’s the first human I’ve talked to in this Qwest quest to get it working consistently. I liked her and I think it may get done this time.
Meanwhile, and this baffles me, I can get DSL long after the phone line is dead. Of course it’s not very good. It’s slow and fuzzy. Let’s see if this posts before the whole connection dies again.
Ah . . . life in the Pacific Northwest. Sometimes it really is as wet as its reputation.
