Wiry interweaving
In the basement (storage central), I have an old canvas mailbag, used to store odd lengths of wire. Repurposing, in the future sense. Although this photo shows a similar bag before deployment, imagine full to the point where lifting is a challenge.
You’d think that all of my collection of copper fits here, but you’d be wrong. I happened to be in need of a very particular patch cable this evening (used to reload frequency sets on one of my transceivers), and the search revealed another small carrying bag filled with the “current” cables. No pun intended. It seems that every single device in my life that “can” be cabled, “is”. And no hope of one size fits all.
Think about it: audio connectors, multiple. USB cables, multiple. HDMI cables, multiple. GPS cables, multiple. Antennas – don’t even go there. The variety is beyond my ability to catalogue. Each time something needs to be connected to something else, a certain time period is added for figuring out what goes where.
Now, that would be easy, if the cables didn’t have a vexious habit better suited to worms, or snakes. They mingle. They twist. They knot. This is not a lesson in verb declension, if you Googled in by accident. This is a mild rant about the propensity of wire to interweave. I spent the best part of an hour sorting stuff out. And in the end, after applying the frequency set to the transceiver, my problem with its panel light is still unsolved. May have to try “take it apart and put it back together”, just to see.
