Wednesday, July 1, 2009

My house is haunted.

I swear it is for about 2 weeks now. It all first started with the router resetting itself and then it wasn't more than 10 minutes later my wireless printer shut itself off. Trust me I saw both events since I spend about 90% of my wake hours in this office. Both items are feet away from me and there was no way I could have touched the power cords since they both are feet away from my feet (not to mention hands). The lights and laptops didn't even flicker so I know it wasn't some sort of power issue plus all 100+ electronic devices in this room would have done something too. Ok, maybe not 100 but close, kind of afraid to count to be honest with you. But heck it is my work place as well as my house, and it's a big room. Anyways, that counts for 2 weird power issues. Well this past Sunday morning (approx. 3am) the ADT alarm system went off for no reason. We don't even use the service so nothing has been set on it since the original owners left. Ok didn't think too much other than being very annoyed by the alarm until it goes off again later on in the day, again for no reason. Though it might have something to do with replacing all the smoke alarms with real ones not those cheap things house builders put in new homes. But still it shouldn't have freeked out twice in one day. Oh and the reason for the replacement of all alarms, the others where going off all the time. After a few times of being thrown out of bed by a house going wacko with alarms is enough to have anyone either cut the power off to the whole house or replace all the alarms. Highly recommend the non-wired into house ones, they have batteries that last up to 7 yrs now instead of 7 weeks!

Back to the haunting issue, the house is just acting weird. I can't put my finger on it but something just isn't right. I thought I was making a wise decision by unhooking the ADT system from the house in general (not removing it, just disconnecting it from the life (power source), well not such a good idea. Must remember down the road that all upper end alarm systems on buildings are also tied into your phone lines!! Yup, I disconnected my main phone line and internet access by trying to outsmart my wacked out house! Heck it won that battle. After calling in Qwest to do some troubleshooting, the tech and I discovered how clever the old ADT folks were. By plugging the system back in to power, the home network came back to life. Well between the two tech minds we came up with back up plan to rid the evil from the house, we disconnected the speakers! Heck it can go off all it wants to now and no one will care! HA! got you house.....

And I thought this was the last of the wacky house issues until last night. I had the bedroom phone reset itself and tell me it was fully charged. Ok this might not seem to weird to most people, but this phone doesn't have that option on it. Its just a dummy phone that has a home base in another room. This happened at 1am, so I think it is time for either a visit from an electrician or a priest.....

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