Yesterday, I met up with some members of a work committee at the Akron Ronald McDonald House to do some volunteering. Their regular crew of volunteers were not available so there was a lot of cleaning to do. We wiped down all the surfaces and chairs, cleaned the kitchen, the bathroom, and laundry room, and swept or mopped all the floors. I was the Mop Lord for the day and tore the place up. In two hours we had cleaned the place from top to bottom. I was drenched in sweat and had somehow managed to sweat a heart-shape into my t-shirt. At least, the manager of the place thought so – enough that she wanted a picture of me with the seated statue of Ronald. It was a little silly, but in good fun. I guess I’m headed for facebook stardom.
Afterwards, I went to McDonald’s for lunch. It seemed fitting.
I’m glad we were able to volunteer and it wasn’t a bad way to spend a couple hours on Saturday. Kinda wish we had more people in the group that could help out.
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That afternoon, I started on a project that I had been putting off. The cable signal comes into the house in the living room – but my office is in the room above it. The WiFi gets the job done, but I wanted a little better signal quality in my office for my main computer. So, with the paddle-style drill bit and extension loaded up, I proceeded to try and drill a hole up from my living room ceiling. It took a while and I figured I was almost at the surface when I encountered something I couldn’t drill through. Surprised I hadn’t come up through the carpet yet, I called up my dad to get an estimate of how much distance between the floor and ceiling I should expert. He said I should already be there and that there might be tile or something under the carpet that might be slowing me down – and that I should try pulling up the carpet and going down. I did and saw that I had a pilot hole started, but the drill with the extension bit wasn’t enough to get through the really ugly tile.
[We had speculated it might be sheet of solid diamonds under the carpet, but it was just tile.]
In a few minutes, I had a hole all the way through and shortly after that I had a cable run and my network set back up.
Nice to be able to call on dad when I’ve got home improvement questions. I try to do as much as I can, but a little guidance is always cool.