From Fernley, Briefly

[kevin_standlee]

Lisa called tonight to give me an update. The plumbing/sewer work is almost done. The contractor laid in the electrical-grade conduit that they'll need to put in the 50A service to the trailer pad. (There's an existing non-code 20A outlet located there, but Lisa wants to remove it, pull the electrical cable from it, and use the conduit to run an Ethernet cable, saying that while she doesn't like running electrical lines through dicey rusting conduit, she's less worried about running an Ethernet cable through it.)

Neither Lisa nor our plumbing contractor have been able to get an answer from Fernley Electric, which is a pity since their office is right around the corner from the house. The plumber will contact an electrical contractor in Yerrington (the Lyon county seat) with which he's worked and let us know something next week.

Speaking of internet connections, she tried connecting the DSL modem from Mehama to the lines and called technical support. After working with them, AT&T concluded that the DSL modem we have isn't compatible with our service here, and they'll have to send us hardware after all. Sigh. Hope it works!

According to Lisa, things are coming along as smoothly as can be expected.

Comments

[solarbird]

Yeah, that all sounds okay, actually. Well, okay, the DSL part isn't good, but it's not a disaster, or a huge shock or anything. Fingers crossed!

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

Several small annoyances, no huge problems. Things could be worse.

[nojay.livejournal.com]

Suggestion to Lisa -- pull several Ethernet cables through the duct, not just one. Cable is cheap but having a connection die on you at the wrong time and being unable to switch to a spare connection is a pain. I'd also recommend running Cat6 rather than Cat5e for future-proofing; it doesn't cost much more but it can carry 10GigE over copper.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

I don't know how many lines she planned to pull, but I do recall her saying that she intended to use Cat6 cable.

[lunarvixenfx.livejournal.com]

Lisa's exploits and adventures never cease to amaze me.. you have yourself one heck of an amazing companion.. wish I could be half the woman she is...