nervous

If there is anything more nerve wracking than having people work on your house, I don't know what it is. There are two electricians upstairs right now running CAT5 (network cable) through the house, and it makes me nervous as all get-out. Which is why I'm blogging, so I'll stay out of their way. Hopefully at the end of the day our Mac will have super-awesome-high-speed internets (rather than iffy sometimes on wifi internets). But seeing people with giant saws going through the house just makes me... uncomfortable.

julee commented:

it is really bad that you are a consumerist reader too, and you've seen all of those wiring horror stories.

 

i used to wire CAT5 cable though bricks of nebraska schools in 1994.  i don't have the tools anymore, but if i did, it seriously would have been an one woman job.

on Mon Feb 16 19:07:06 2009

David commented:

As it turned out, our house is equipped with fire blocks that cut across the wall, which meant there were lots of long floppy drill bits (and a not inconsequential amount of bad words) employed. So I didn't feel too bad, in the end, having hired professionals.

on Tue Feb 17 07:24:27 2009

Anonymous commented:

heh, you should read douglas adams' salmon of doubt.

there's a nice story in there about macs, wires, and electricians.

on Sat Feb 21 00:05:43 2009

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