Pensacola FL Sailing Blog - sailingnightwatch

Because my home is my office, phone lines were a necessity. This was still back in the days of fax machines, slow ISP’s, tower computers and slow poor quality printers. With all this technology I needed 2 lines. My office had been at our home and we had always used our second line as our home phone number. I had a 2 line phone on my desk(chart table) and a 2 line phone in the aft stateroom. Gave me a place to work at night on the phone while my wife could do her thing in the saloon or galley. I also installed a portable phone across the saloon by the eating bar. It was convenient for the telemarketers to reach us during dinner. This was our setup until 2002 when we shifted from an ISP to DSL. By that time I had moved any fax function to the computer and almost everything was going to email. Therefore, we dropped one of the lines and converted it to handle the DSL. I also moved from a tower to a laptop computer. That was great until hurricane Ivan. Good by phone lines. While wiring the phone, I also wired for 2 TV’s either through cable or antenna. After Ivan there was no phone, TV, electricity, water or marina. While evacuated I picked up a cell phone card for the computer. Oh yea, what cell towers. Some day we will get into that chapter of our lives.