It was going so well… it really was.
Project 30d had really got my juices flowing trying to find interesting things to photograph and blog about… I liked setting out each day wondering what would be the subject of the day and slowly developing it in my head as the hours passed. Sometimes it’d be a topic I wanted to blog about and so I looked for the picture that would go with the story. Or I’d take a shot that I really liked and wrote around that. Either way, it was going so well.
And then our internet tanked.
Since last Friday we’ve been having a lot of trouble logging on. The server is extra slow and sometimes non-existent. Granted, we have three computers hooked up 24/7 but this never seemed to be a problem before. Hubby thinks someone in our building is hacking our Wi-Fi.
But, I think it’s maybe due to the subject in today’s pic: The Cable Spiderweb (left side).
(Btw, the OCD Virgo inside me does not like sights like the one above. If there is one thing I can’t stand is a knot of cables. My family is a specialist of KnotCabeling (sorry guys, but it’s true and you know it) but I didn’t think hubby was the type to let such a mess go on and on. 2 years 2 months and 9 days since moving into our place has proven otherwise)
The mess in the picture is one that could’ve been avoided quite easily in fact. When the phone company hooked up our line they asked where we wanted the central jack. Not really assessing the strategic importance of the question, we figured the lower corner you see on the right of the hallway would be as good a spot as any.
It was when we hooked up our phone a few hours later that we realized our mistake. The electrical plug is on the left side of the hall and so you’ve got a cable crossing right in the middle of the path! Boy did we look like a couple of idiots when we realized this!
Still, it’s been 2 YEARS and still I haven’t gotten hubby to either move the jack (I’m sure that’s possible) OR staple the cable around the doorway so it stops being the life-threatening obstacle it currently is. The amount of times we’ve tripped on the stupid thing! You’d think that would have been enough for us to do something about it, but noooooooooooo.
So here’s my confession: I’m hoping that by blogging about it, hubby will feel the pressure of y’all and finally DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE DARN THING!!! (and with any luck this will fix our internet too! ;))
Fned.
P.S. And to all you out there who are thinking of asking why don't I do it myself, I'm warning you, I'll delete your comment! No need putting silly ideas into hubby's head. *LOL*
Project 30d had really got my juices flowing trying to find interesting things to photograph and blog about… I liked setting out each day wondering what would be the subject of the day and slowly developing it in my head as the hours passed. Sometimes it’d be a topic I wanted to blog about and so I looked for the picture that would go with the story. Or I’d take a shot that I really liked and wrote around that. Either way, it was going so well.
And then our internet tanked.
Since last Friday we’ve been having a lot of trouble logging on. The server is extra slow and sometimes non-existent. Granted, we have three computers hooked up 24/7 but this never seemed to be a problem before. Hubby thinks someone in our building is hacking our Wi-Fi.
But, I think it’s maybe due to the subject in today’s pic: The Cable Spiderweb (left side).
(Btw, the OCD Virgo inside me does not like sights like the one above. If there is one thing I can’t stand is a knot of cables. My family is a specialist of KnotCabeling (sorry guys, but it’s true and you know it) but I didn’t think hubby was the type to let such a mess go on and on. 2 years 2 months and 9 days since moving into our place has proven otherwise)
The mess in the picture is one that could’ve been avoided quite easily in fact. When the phone company hooked up our line they asked where we wanted the central jack. Not really assessing the strategic importance of the question, we figured the lower corner you see on the right of the hallway would be as good a spot as any.
It was when we hooked up our phone a few hours later that we realized our mistake. The electrical plug is on the left side of the hall and so you’ve got a cable crossing right in the middle of the path! Boy did we look like a couple of idiots when we realized this!
Still, it’s been 2 YEARS and still I haven’t gotten hubby to either move the jack (I’m sure that’s possible) OR staple the cable around the doorway so it stops being the life-threatening obstacle it currently is. The amount of times we’ve tripped on the stupid thing! You’d think that would have been enough for us to do something about it, but noooooooooooo.
So here’s my confession: I’m hoping that by blogging about it, hubby will feel the pressure of y’all and finally DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE DARN THING!!! (and with any luck this will fix our internet too! ;))
Fned.
P.S. And to all you out there who are thinking of asking why don't I do it myself, I'm warning you, I'll delete your comment! No need putting silly ideas into hubby's head. *LOL*
10 comments:
Come on Hubby! You can do it?
Remember my apartment in Paris? I also had the telephone cable on the floor for a couple of years and mine was even worse, some 2 meters long!
Go for it, hubby! You'll be a hero and will also make Day 28 on the blog a cinch for fned...she'll have a beautiful picture of the cablefree hallway!
Good luck,you two...
I like the idea of SOMEBODY doing it! ANYBODY!!! And then can they come over here and straighten out our spiderweb cable glob???
Of course you shouldn't do it. Boy I wish you were one of my readers in my 'pink job/blue job' posting days...
It goes something like this:
Cable/internet/moving stuff - blue job
Cooking/cleaning/maintaining the social calendar - pink job.
Wait, I just realized that he cooks in your relationship. Sorry kid, I guess you're on the hook!
(Hmmm...that is so NOT how this comment was supposed to turn out...)
Boy, thats a bigger job than you might imagine. May I suggest that "Hubby" retire to the nearest cantina with a couple pals and plan the big fix over multiple cerveza's. Planning. That"s what's needed.
I would NEVER tell you to handle that cord yourself. There are some things that are just the hubby's job, end of story, and some things that are our job. Gender stereotypes be damned.
I always tell mine, "Honey, there's no water coming out of the tap," and he'll start explaining the problem with the pump until I hold up my hand and say, "Sweetie, I don't need to know what's wrong or how it will be fixed. I just want to turn on the tap and get water, end of story."
Boy, am I spoiled or what?
Jorge: Haha, I so remember your apt in Paris... BUT I also remember your apt in Oviedo: PRISTINE CLEAN AND PERFECT!!! ;)
Aunt S: If he does it, he will totally be my hero. I have been waiting to get rid of this mess since forever!
Minshap: ahaha! You'll need THREE hubbies to get rid of the mess you go going there... but then again: there's enough hands in that house to get it done! ;D
That girl: I SO want to read those pink job/blue job posts!! Might give me some ideas of other stuff hubby should be doing... LOL
Daniel: You crack me up! I wish we had cantinas in France. I guess the local "PMU" will have to do...:D
Heather: Wow, that was spooky!! I thought I was hearing myself!!! I totally agree, why do men think we're interested in the mechanics of things? Our brains are so much simpler: it works=GOOD, it doesn't work=BAD. :)
Fned.
err now, MAYBE that is why my internet is so slow too :S heh and the idea of somebody hacking my internet crossed my mind too, but nah, I guess it's that squirel's nest of wires I have under the desk.. ack!
I've seen worse but yes hubs needs to get that one running across the hall there before someone takes a serious tumble and sues him for every single solitary dime he has and then...(oh wait--wrong country!) Okay just fix it for your lovely wife ;>)
Ale: Honestly, I wouldn't mind someone hacking my internet service as long as it didn't interfere with my blogging and picture uploading. I mean, I can spear a little bandwith to the less fortunate, call it my good action of the day. However, when that means it takes 20 mins to watch a 3 minute video of Mana on youtube then I draw the line!!! LOL
Misscrhis: I know! That's what I keep telling myself... but I guess one of us needs to fall and break a leg for us to do something about it. I guess we're what you would call a trail/fail/learn couple! ;)
Fned.
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