Showing posts with label communications. Show all posts
Showing posts with label communications. Show all posts

Monday, January 16, 2012

Did you say woodpeckers?!

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Every winter, with the first rain, my little old house in the hills gets Internet connectivity problems and my phone often dies for days or weeks.
Whether this may have played a hand in Google's lock-down on my blog for a week I don't know.
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But I know I was over-joyed to find this telephone infrastructure man out on the street a few days ago!

Bless his heart, Yossi was patient with all my questions and picture-taking.
He worked for hours out in the cold.
The Bezeq man replaced the old cables on the two wooden poles nearest my house.

Yossi showed me how the cables were full of holes.
Can you believe?! He said woodpeckers made the holes, thinking the cables were the commonly used black drip irrigation tubes!
The birds were hoping to get a drink of water!
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Well, it made good fodder for the blog, this story, but I am still waiting for my telephone to work properly.
Thank you Yossi, you tried, and I appreciate your dedication.
Now it's time to wait for another Bezeq technician, but from a different department.
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(This is not a grand tour but it has been very much "my world" these past weeks, so I will add it to Our World Tuesday meme.)

Monday, April 7, 2008

Hello?

Grrrr--the big bad bulldozer digging at the entrance to our moshav cut our telephone cable yesterday morning. A whole day and a half with no Internet, cut off from civilization and my beloved new-found blogosphere. Oi! Having no TV, I must watch Internet broadcasts of the nightly news, so now I'm 1 1/2 days behind the times. And, as one of the last Israelis without a cellphone, I was also without phoning capability until just now. Man, you might just as well try to talk on a banana.