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Today's adventure:
Crawled under the house and ran some Ethernet cables. Super janky hard wiring setup, the profs and assorted nerds that know what they're doing will probably yell at me for how I did it. I just ran 2 Ethernet cables from the router out the wall, under the house, and into a hole in the wall in both my bedrooms. Then joined them into shielded ethernet couplers, and that's my new receptacle. Also did a cable between my two rooms, in case I ever do a NAS (that'll live in my spare room)
This is a crude and simplified doodle of what I did:
Mostly tested, both the router main cables work, the LAN cable between the two rooms won't be tested until tonight or tomorrow.
I am absolutely fucking filthy though, completely head to toe in mud. Literally. There's mud in my hair, and my shoes. I need a good shower
Huh, I didn't realise that state housing allows that lol the more you know
I don't actually know if the house is owned by the state or not. It's managed by the organisation contracted to try really hard to make sure I don't die, and they have at least partial maintenance abilities, but generally maintenance and works are carried out by specific contractors child protection really like, who I believe also have to hold a WWCC.
I brought it up a few months ago, and offered to run the cabling myself. I got a vague yes. I'm not entirely sure she understood what I meant, and it wasn't a firm yes, but I definitely construed it as being a yes. She's been on "indefinite unplanned leave" and I can't clarify the matter, so I decided to do it. Being a child in their care gives me partial immunity too. Worst case they'll tell me off, tell me never to do it again, and then send a sparky out to undo everything I just did. But it's fairly likely I wouldn't have to pay for any of it.
(Their general stance on things is that as long as it can be removed easily, and any damage repaired by me before I move out, it's all good. I'm going to remove the cables and patch up the holes when I leave so it's probably fine. I most certainly would not just do this on a vague agreement made months ago if I lived pretty much anywhere else)
I thought this was going to be one of those Alphastructural Imgur posts!
Who?
Still bummed Imgur embeds don't work here anymore since they put in that stupid image proxy thing
This guy is Imgur famous for doing structural integrity inspections of houses, requiring him and his team to go under the floor of houses and film the dodgy and interesting stuff found there. I think they're in the California area, so they get called to inspect after the seismic activity they have there, and often find buildings that weren't built to code in the first place. Your photo was like the classic beginning of a "Things seen this week during structural assessments" post.