There are a whole lot of wires around my house.
In fact, every room boasts some sort of wire and some have spaghetti wiring systems.
I thought in this age of technical acumen when everyone is talking “wireless” (like wireless mice and wireless phones and wireless reception), that wire-less would surely mean an absence of wires.
Not so.
Take my office for instance.
It is a very small office since it is only a desk and a chair in a corner next to my bed.
The desk also doubles as a bedside night stand.
THERE IS A LAMP OF COURSE, AND IT HAS A WIRE!
The desk holds a computer which also has a wire – actually two wires for connections and one to turn on the other two I think.
There is a mobile phone on the desk.
It is a cell phone but it is not a cell phone.
There is no defining what it is, but I know it is wireless because I can walk around with it when it is not in its cradle.
I call this phone our “PRETEND LANDLINE PHONE” and it stands in a perpetual charger, which is wired to a wall plug because even though we don’t have wired landline phones anymore, our pretend landline phones have to be charged.
I know, this sounds a bit garbled, but it is a clue to our in-home wiring system for various wired and wire-less devices.
Then there is my other “REAL WIRELESS CELL PHONE” that I carry everywhere. But that also has to be recharged and there is a wire for that.
And there is another wire to recharge the Kindle reader.
In addition, the printer has to be wired although I’m not sure where that wire is.
JUST IMAGINE ALL THOSE WIRES FOR ONE DESK!
But if you are brave enough to enter Bill’s inner sanctum, you will be even more impressed with wires.
He has all the same gadgets, but add the television and its assorted wires , and so many behind his desk I am afraid to dust due to the threat of electrocution!
IS THERE SOMETHING LIKE THE THIRD RAIL FOR WIRE CONNECTIONS?
When I asked Bill what all those wires are for, he said, “I honestly don’t know. We had a fax machine once. Remember that?”
“Yes.”
“Well, that could be one explained wire, and maybe another for the shredder, but I don’t know what the other 30 or 40 are for.”
I LOVE BEING WIRED UP but we are fast approaching a state of strangulation!
Maybe robotic help is in order,
but only if the robot is wireless.
Sounds like our home. I had to have my husband install a 4 outlet electrical plug above my desk so I could charge various devices at the same time. (I forget to check them and then they are all dead at the same time!) We have modems and routers and remote routers. The only good thing is that we converted to all-in-one desk top systems which eliminated some wires….maybe.
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Wow, his wires are worse than here! Wireless world eh? The wires will never actually vanish will they…
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Dora, I have a phobia about dangling wires, I hate them. I also have all the wires you mention and guess what, we have them in the garden wires leading from the shed to Johns aviary and a cable trailing from the house to feed the electric into the shed for Johns electric tools. Bless him he did try to hide them between the leaves on trees. But I know they are there. However, that’s progress I guess.
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This really made me giggle because we recently upgraded our main TV, and when I was setting up the new one I had to be brave and venture into the jungle of wires behind the TV stand. It was a terrifying experience: however, because the new TV is a Smart TV, it can do pretty much everything but bake bread. So, I was able to get rid of some older gadgets, thereby eliminating some wires. Yipeeeeee!! I’m so glad I made it through that ordeal safely :).
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😀 I love the subjects you post – this is something that frustrates everyone, but no one talks about it!
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It looks dangerous!
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There’s no escaping the wires, Dor…just don’t trip over them. xo
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Ahhhhhh! We are not alone….. 🙂
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What will they thing when all these wires are unearthed 1,000 years from now?
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It is truly amazing how wires have taken up our wireless world. Thankfully, Bill has not “progressed” to garden wires yet – except around the holidays when he puts up the outside lights.
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Maybe the smarter our gadgets get, the less wires will be needed. And maybe we should save some of the tangled mess that will be valuable as antiques later. Hmmmmmm. 🙂
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Hahaha! I love it that you love these subjects Eliza. They are usually my secret gripes and it feels good to air them in cyberspace. 🙂
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I agree beeblu. I am convinced that mess of wires has to have one “live” one buried in there. 🙂
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Sage advice! 🙂 With all the lamps and lights in the house, I still carry a flashlight around in the middle of the night to get to the bathroom. 🙂
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I’m looking at an octopus of wires at this very moment. We can’t escape! I actually have a graveyard of phone chargers from cell phones of long ago just to make my life that much more insane.
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That was hilarious! You exposed a few home truths. I liked your use of the vernacular instead of technical jargon — most refreshing. I’ve recently moved from NY to NC and am not always up on Southern speech. I presume “inner sanctum” is a much more elegant phrase and equal to “man cave”.
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You are never alone. We are sisters separated at birth!
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You are definitely all wired up! 🙂
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Thanks Anne! I have always thought “inner sanctum” meant a private place and when I looked it up now, it is pretty much confirmed. Sanctum | Definition of sanctum by Merriam-Webster
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sanctum
a place where one is free from intrusion
And you are absolutely right that it is about the same thing as a “man cave” just an old English way of saying it.
Showing my age! 🙂
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I rather like this concept Kate. Thank you. 🙂
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I should have looked up man cave, having only heard it in the speech of young people. Inner sanctum is much more elegant. From now on, that’s the way I’m going to think of my tiny computer desk that sits before sliding glass doors overlooking the mountains.
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I love your “office” overlooking the mountains! 🙂
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Yikes Dor – that is one MESS of wires! You’re right, the more wireless devices we get, the more wires we need. What’s up with that?!?!?
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Oh Tina, maybe wires are our legacy for future generations, curiosities from a primitive era. And hopefully, the citizens of a newer, cleaner, truly wireless world will puzzle over the massive use of wires “in the olden days.” 🙂
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This made me ‘wired’ just reading it because it sounds exactly like my house. Every time I clean and I see those wild conglomeration of wires everywhere, I think my blood pressure rises a few points. But I’m too scared to touch them because I know I’ll goof something up good! As usual, Dor, your amazing sense of humor (wired or not) comes through in this post. 🙂
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You are truly a inspiration Cindy. Thanks so much! Now we are both “wired.” 🙂 ~Dor
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You are not alone, Dor. We, too, have a land line, a pretend cell phone and real cell phones. We also have a wireless computer, printer, and fitbit. I’m sure there are ex-inmates and folks on parole who aren’t as tethered to machines as many of us. I really enjoy the times when I can go “off the grid.” 😉
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Thanks for reminding me to check my cordless phone, it was in need of charging. 😉
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I like the idea of “going off the grid” too… which is more and more difficult to do. 🙂
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