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Friday Slide Show: A Little Painting
8 March 2024
We don't spend a lot of time in Joyce's office but we lost our inside phone circuit when the exterior painters removed the ancient, calcified cabling from the stucco.
In the previous century, we'd call the phone company and they'd send a tech out to get your line up again. But these days, we have VOIP running on our VDSL line so we called Sonic, our Internet service provider, to help diagnose the problem.
You always talk to a tech at Sonic. Not a customer sales rep with a script. A tech some savvy. And our tech walked us through some debugging that showed 1) we had Internet service and 2) we had VOIP at the VOIP box.
Sonic offered to send AT&T out but since we had an Internet signal to the network box on the house there was nothing they would be able to do. And since two wires in our damaged cable (fortunately) still carried our Internet connection inside and brought a dial tone to our VOIP box, that was the end of Sonic's reach. We had to get an electrician who knew phone cabling to replace our old cables.
It took a week to get a tech out to replace the cabling.
But during that time, we tried to restore the half of the circuit that branches from a jack in Joyce's office. So there we were, moving things around her office, cleaning up and noticing hairline cracks in the corners of the room.
Well, it has been 20 years (and a few earthquakes) since her office was painted.
So yesterday morning, in a fit of gallantry, we sanded and patched and sanded and painted the cracks.
Prep is the secret to a good paint job and the secret to prep is having the tools to do it. There are a suprising number of them. And then you paint. Which has its own suite of tools. And after you paint, you clean up. More tools.
For this slide show, we posed a few of our tools for some iPhone 15 Pro Max macro shots after we cleaned up. Then we put them all away.
Which about exhausted our fit of gallantry.
