It started with our wireless connection. The garage door was next and the screensaver followed. Then the radio.
These are all electronic items that have gone haywire in our house in the last two weeks. And it’s starting to freak me out.
The issue is not that these things stop working. The issue is that they work on their own terms.
Our wireless connection, for some reason, is no longer ‘always on’. (For those of you who check rhinoworld, you’ve probably noticed this lately as the computer that has rhinoworld on it is connected to the web via our wireless connection.) When it goes off, we just have to wait for it to come back on – there’s no rhyme or reason to it. Adam has tried everything he knows to make it work. If it doesn’t want to work, it just doesn’t.
Then for three days last week, the garage door just didn’t work. Sometimes it would raise three inches and stop and other times it just wouldn’t do anything. We thought the motor was gone until Thursday night, it mysteriously just started working again. Like nothing ever happened.
Our computer screensaver is working on its own terms as well. We’ve actually had a case of burn-in because the screensaver never started. We’ve taken to turning the screen off now… though sometimes when we turn on the screen to use the computer, the screensaver is working. But not all the time.
We have a radio in the kitchen that has an alarm on it (though we never use the alarm and rarely use the radio). Just last week, the alarm started going off at 7:00am and again at 8:00am. It just happened.
Adam thinks that there may be sunspots (or something like that) wreaking havoc in our home. I’m beginning to think that our house is haunted. Ok, not really, but you have to admit, it is more than a little strange. I just hope that the dishwasher doesn’t decide to blow up mid-rinse!
So, with no explanation, we keep on searching for the mystery. It makes life a little more interesting I suppose – waiting for the next thing to turn off or on. Maybe someday we’ll have logical explanations for all of these things. For now, just consider us trapped in our garage with no wireless connection but with a burned in screen, being woken at 7:00 and then again at 8:00. It’s a crazy life.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Things gone awry
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4 comments:
Hahahaha! You poor guys! That happened after the first year we lived here, right on the anniversary of our move in day our garage door wouldn't open, there were huge cracks in the mantle, and the TV had a green stripe 5 inches wide down the middle. Maybe it's a trick to buy extended warranties!
We have noticed here that our light switches randomly work in two rooms - but only when it is extremly humid. We thought the bulbs were dead, but the next morning they work fine. It's probably not humid in Seatle though...very interesting.
maybe Addy has discovered the algorithm and is toying with y'all????
Dad Smith
Dad Smith is right... you are no longer alone in the house... she pretends to only have the motor control of a 6-month old, but in fact is enjoying a full variety of pranks behind her giggling eyes :)
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