technical difficulties
Oct. 3rd, 2005 08:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaydeefalls
Back in internet cafe. Out of sheer boredom. Okay, so I bought two plug adaptor things so that I could, say, plug in my laptop and clock and things. So. Trying to plug my clock in first, I realize that my clock plug is weird and doesn't fit into the adaptor. But aha! I say, I have a surge protector for my laptop which I never use! So I plug the clock into the surge protector and the surge protector into the adaptor and the adaptor into the wall. And then (because Ireland is weird), I turn on the electricity for that plug.
ZAP! says the electricity. HISS! says the smoke trickling out of the surge protector. OH MY SWEET FUCKING JESUS! says Kaydee, as she jumps the hell away from the electric outlet.
IT BURNT OUT MY FREAKING SURGE PROTECTOR AND POSSIBLY MY CLOCK TOO.
Okay, see, I thought the point of these adaptor thingys is that they MAKE IT OKAY to plug a foreign object into the strange high-voltage Irish outlets. SO WTF.
Later, I tentatively tried plugging my laptop into the wall, because according to the fine print, the thing what connects my Dell laptop into the wall is a sort of adaptor itself, and can supposedly handle ridiculously high voltages already. So, plug that into the adaptor just to get the correctly-shaped plug, and theoretically my laptop battery thing can handle the voltage. Move all possibly flammable objects away from outlet, just in case. And, cringing, I turned on the electricity.
Nothing.
By which I really mean NOTHING. The electricity does not go on. Neither does it function for any of the other outlets in my room. So. There are two possible conclusions to be drawn here: 1. My surge protector was faulty and went fizz just because. 2. I BURNT OUT ALL THE ELECTRICITY IN MY DORM ROOM EVER.
No tech support in the dorm yet. Heck, have yet to see signs that any responsible adult-type people have anything whatsoever to do with my dorm, as have only seen other international students here so far.
FIE ON YOU, STUPID IRELAND ELECTRICITY.
ZAP! says the electricity. HISS! says the smoke trickling out of the surge protector. OH MY SWEET FUCKING JESUS! says Kaydee, as she jumps the hell away from the electric outlet.
IT BURNT OUT MY FREAKING SURGE PROTECTOR AND POSSIBLY MY CLOCK TOO.
Okay, see, I thought the point of these adaptor thingys is that they MAKE IT OKAY to plug a foreign object into the strange high-voltage Irish outlets. SO WTF.
Later, I tentatively tried plugging my laptop into the wall, because according to the fine print, the thing what connects my Dell laptop into the wall is a sort of adaptor itself, and can supposedly handle ridiculously high voltages already. So, plug that into the adaptor just to get the correctly-shaped plug, and theoretically my laptop battery thing can handle the voltage. Move all possibly flammable objects away from outlet, just in case. And, cringing, I turned on the electricity.
Nothing.
By which I really mean NOTHING. The electricity does not go on. Neither does it function for any of the other outlets in my room. So. There are two possible conclusions to be drawn here: 1. My surge protector was faulty and went fizz just because. 2. I BURNT OUT ALL THE ELECTRICITY IN MY DORM ROOM EVER.
No tech support in the dorm yet. Heck, have yet to see signs that any responsible adult-type people have anything whatsoever to do with my dorm, as have only seen other international students here so far.
FIE ON YOU, STUPID IRELAND ELECTRICITY.
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Date: 2005-10-04 04:52 pm (UTC)