Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Waiting, and an unexpected success!
The last few days have been a little frustrating. I'm waiting to meet up with the (real) customer but I've been prevented from doing so by "contractual issues". Well, it looks like all that is over, tomorrow's the day! The waiting will be over very soon.
I had an unexpected bit of good fortune last night. The carpet is up in one of the rooms in "The London Office". The new carpet is due to be fitted at the weekend. While the opportunity is there I thought I would wire up an extension phone socket. First there was a bit of good news and then a puzzle. I knew there was a socket but I also knew it didn't work. I thought it had not been wired (people do that sort of thing sometimes!). When I took the faceplate off, it was wired (correctly) but still not working. I was all set to re-run the wires when I decided to fit a replacement phone outlet. Guess what? It worked! A job that was scheduled for an hour (or more) of hard work (lifting floorboards and struggling on the floor)was over in 15 minutes. Hooray! I don't often get lucky, but I did this time.
I had an unexpected bit of good fortune last night. The carpet is up in one of the rooms in "The London Office". The new carpet is due to be fitted at the weekend. While the opportunity is there I thought I would wire up an extension phone socket. First there was a bit of good news and then a puzzle. I knew there was a socket but I also knew it didn't work. I thought it had not been wired (people do that sort of thing sometimes!). When I took the faceplate off, it was wired (correctly) but still not working. I was all set to re-run the wires when I decided to fit a replacement phone outlet. Guess what? It worked! A job that was scheduled for an hour (or more) of hard work (lifting floorboards and struggling on the floor)was over in 15 minutes. Hooray! I don't often get lucky, but I did this time.
# posted by tom_gillies @ 1:44 PM 
