Mom, Tivo and Chapter 2

[susandennis]

She is now "90%" sure it's the phone plug. She's making great progress sussing out the problem on her own. Thursday mornings is when her cleaning person comes. Sandy is way way nice and pretty big. So Mom says that she and Sandy and Teresa (the facilities secretary) will have the phone plug test tomorrow.

Plus Mom reports that she tighened up something on the back of the TiVo and already TiVo is better (able to get through more of the updating progress but apparently not all the way to the call).

The idea of Mom and Sandy and Teresa with their heads together over the wiring behind her entertainment shelves just cracks me up. We shall see! But, I am no longer stressing about it.

I need to focus my cycles on beating Detroit again tonight.

Comments

[pinkfish.livejournal.com]

I can't help but wonder whether her "tightening up" somthing back there might not have loosened the phone cord.

Obviously, you need to connect her via WiFi to a hub that will allow her Tivo to use a DSL connection for anytime access to the Internet without use of a phone :)

[susandennis]

And, obviously, you are smoking something that they have laws against!

No DSL option where she lives. Ever. Between a 19th century phone company and the fire sale telephone system they installed to connect to it, there ain't nobody there who is going to live long enough to see DSL. On the up side her broadband cable connection doesn't suck.

I used the original TiVo 5 mile long telephone wire and just bundled it up behind the case. She discovered that today and correctly sussed that she could just take that wire to another jack to see if it's a jack problem or not. That's on tomorrow's team agenda...

Wi-fi hub on her DSL connection indeed...

[pinkrose70.livejournal.com]

ha ha ha ha ha to your response to the "smoking" post.

I was thinking the exact same thing as I read about "the 3 of them huddled" and the large woman heaving that heavy entertainment center away from the wall, while the other two smack at the TiVo and yank and insert that phone cord. LOL

Does your Mom have a webcam that we can view tomorrow? :)

[susandennis]

Wouldn't that be a trip - to watch the action?

[pheon.livejournal.com]

Your mother is a kick. Thanks for keeping us up on her episodes.

She reminds me a bit of my mother. Maybe someday I'll post a few Ruth stories. The cricket in the Beef Wellington comes to mind....

[susandennis]

Oh now you absolutely have to tell the cricket in the Beef Wellington story... I'm thinking it might not have been to get extra protein???