No beer o'clock here for a few days...

Usally when I have to take antibiotics its for ten days. Boy thats a bummer. But you have to do it.

I have to take two pills a day and there are ten of them, so that's five days. Still ok... Cheers anyway!

---

rOZZ
Music
Pictures

No beer o'clock here for a few days...

Usally when I have to take antibiotics its for ten days. Boy thats a bummer. But you have to do it.

I have to take two pills a day and there are ten of them, so that's five days. Still ok... Cheers anyway!

That sounds about like the last time I took them.

I usually have to eat yogurt to keep my guts from going nuts.

---

David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

I'm just having a short rest after a day at the local races before I head back down to the bottom pub for the night's entertainment. ;-)

Cheers.

I usually have to eat yogurt to keep my guts from going nuts.

Same here...


Tea o'clock

---

rOZZ
Music
Pictures

At this time of the morning I reckon that it's time for Bed O'clock.

Cheers.

My computer has gone wild, program isn't runnung and dsl isvery very hard to get on. I have the phome company on line now to see if it's on thier end. :(

Land line on, Internet off? Rebooted router/modem?

Did that but the phone company said they issues at there end too and are coming monday morning. But still my program doesn't run. :( Beer time.

Cheers

I'm giving Beer O'clock a miss today as I was still pi***d when I woke up this morning. :-D

Cheers.

Tea o'clock. Tuesday will be beer o'clock again, finally:) Cheers!

---

rOZZ
Music
Pictures

I know what you mean Grant. We had a problem last week for 4 days only fixed on Friday. We had a dialling tone and could make calls, internet was on, but incoming calls got one ring then nothing, constantly engaged, or an error message. They came at 8.00am Friday and took 2 hours to carry out lots of tests and fix it. It was apparently a fault further down the street somewhere. I'm guessing maybe a flooded jointbox due to the recent heavy rain.

45mins to beer o'clock :-)

My computer internet is smoking now up to this program. the message board works well but the timers on the files are not. Looks like I have a program problem or something internal wrong. Pretty bad to just wake up and ready for a shot and beer after last nights go at this. Cheers

Tea o'clock. Tuesday will be beer o'clock again, finally:) Cheers!

You can spike the tea too. :))

I know what you mean Grant. We had a problem last week for 4 days only fixed on Friday. We had a dialling tone and could make calls, internet was on, but incoming calls got one ring then nothing, constantly engaged, or an error message. They came at 8.00am Friday and took 2 hours to carry out lots of tests and fix it. It was apparently a fault further down the street somewhere. I'm guessing maybe a flooded jointbox due to the recent heavy rain.

45mins to beer o'clock :-)

My computer internet is smoking now up to this program. the message board works well but the timers on the files are not. Looks like I have a program problem or something internal wrong. Pretty bad to just wake up and ready for a shot and beer after last nights go at this. Cheers

Just got the phone with my computer company and the cooling fan on the CPU has gone south and it won't let you run anything over a safe mode. 4 cores isn't one. :)) New fan in desk.

I know what you mean Grant. We had a problem last week for 4 days only fixed on Friday. We had a dialling tone and could make calls, internet was on, but incoming calls got one ring then nothing, constantly engaged, or an error message. They came at 8.00am Friday and took 2 hours to carry out lots of tests and fix it. It was apparently a fault further down the street somewhere. I'm guessing maybe a flooded jointbox due to the recent heavy rain.

Several years ago, I kept having trouble with the phone and DSL. Internet was spotty at best. Phone calls were full of static if they went through at all. They kept coming out and it would work for a while and then go bad again. Finally, the repair guy found a corroded connection in a junction box a block away.

---

David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

What my guys did was to put an oscillator on the terminals of the connection box on the outside house wall, the trace the pair back along the transmission route testing for the quality of the signal at each stage. Fairly standard procedure. It was obviously one leg of the pair (ring leg) that had a problem because of the result that callers got. I suspect a faulty joint somewhere. HR connections are pretty easy to spot with modern test gear.

Pretty clever but I have one better. A woman in the UK her dog would yip everytime she got a ohone call. She called the dog smart but the out come was her phone line was ungrounded and the dog was staked close to the phone line so when the phone would ring about ( 90 volts ) the dog got shocked. :)) Now I sdon't know if this is totaly true but that's what they said.

Beer O'clock is over and time for bed time.:O

Sorry, an urban myth Grant. UK telephones work on a nominal 50V and I believe 10ma ringing current. I say "believe" because I was in External Plant Engineering Development, latterly Computer management, not the transmission side.

Well not so sure.

The incident described is on what the UK called "shared service" and was known as a "party line" in the US.

In the UK a normal line has 50V DC across the line and ringing in its most common format is an AC waveform 75vRMS at 25Hz with a cadence of 0.4 sec on, 0.2 sec off, 0.4 sec on, 2 sec off. This is applied across the pair in a normal line.

On a shared service line in the UK there were only 2 subscribers and they were connected on either leg with the return via earth, usually a large spike driven in the ground in the garden. The dog in question was supposedly connected via a metal chain to the earth spike as it was a nice solid place to attach the chain, if the ground was particularity dry then then phone didn't ring but the dog barked!!

And I can tell you from many experiences that ringing current hurts!!

It was a story told regularly by our "subs app and line" men.

As an apprentice I went to a house where the phone did not work because the lady of the house had removed the "unsightly" wire that "only went into the ground"

---

Ah the days of "Subs 1+1 carrier" to give service to two properties when there were no spare pairs. Dunno about ringing current hurting, but I saw many a spanner welded to the aluminium bus bars above a BT battery room! A lovely and true story I still like concerns two TO's on an extended lunchtime down the pub, who upon return clipped a wander phone to a random number on the MDF, and told an old lady that tnere was a fire at the exchange and to put her telephone in a bucket of water to be safe. 5 days latter she rang from a neighbours to ask if she could take it out yet. I think they both left shortly afterwards.

We had 16 people on our party line until 1957 and my father was trying to run a store to boot,a real trick. we had the old crank phones back then where I was. finally got dial phones and went to a 2 party line which was a real treat. Boy am I glad those days are over.

Well sorry but we seem to have drifted a bit where's the beer!



Well there are the empties!

PS Sorry Chris but "real shared service" ie two phones on one pair pre-dates 1+1 carrier by about 30 years!

---

I went in a Pizza joint once and I think he had a can of almost all beer companies in the U.S. on the wall. I didn't see Billy beer though. :)) That was the biggest collection I have seen yet. My beer of the day is Sirra Navada torpedo extra IPA, so far it's pretty good.

Cheers

Bernie - that's not a bad collection. There are a couple that I haven't tried, mainly because I haven't seen them for sale :-(

---

Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Great pic Bernie!

---

rOZZ
Music
Pictures