{"id":2032,"date":"2016-06-26T16:54:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T16:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2016-06-26T16:54:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T16:54:47","slug":"ronald-mcdonald-housemop-lord-cable-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/26\/ronald-mcdonald-housemop-lord-cable-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronald McDonald House\/mop lord, cable running"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/em>. 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. \u00a0I guess I’m headed for facebook stardom.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, I went to McDonald’s for lunch. It seemed fitting.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

[We had speculated it might be \u00a0sheet of solid diamonds under the carpet, but it was just tile.]<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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