Phones

Since I'm already nerding it up by posting on my blog, let's go full force by talking about my battle with Kristin's phones. Her house is split into 3 units: basement apartment, middle floor apartment, and the upstairs apartment where she lives. It used to be a regular house and so all the units share a single power, gas, and water meter. But everyone needs their own phone, so there are 3 phone boxes. However, there are roughly 1000 wires running in and around those 3 boxes. One of the jacks in the house quit working for no reason, so I set out to fix it. The odd thing about it is that it is a lone ranger kind of jack, which is not attached to the phone system of the rest of the house. The phone cable goes right out through the wall, over the house, and into the rat's nest. Why would they do this? It must have been another line at some point, but then why would it quit working all random style? And why are there several Ethernet cables strung about in the rats nest? It's like someone was trying to network the neighborhood. Who wired these things? Is there a map someplace?