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November 24, 2012
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A difficulty I'm having at the
moment: I need to figuring out
how to thread phone lines (DSL)
and ethernet cables in a mildly
spiffy middle-class aparment.
Feeling trapped by
"the high road". Essentially, this is a
psychological problem,
BUILDINGS_LEARN exacerbated by needing
to deal with my partner
who has an odd (to me) But I can't blame the
tendency to turn middle entire problem on the
class *when placed in dangerbabe: my current
such an environment*. hack involves ethernet
She also keeps going on cables draped all
about how great it would through the house,
be if we were living in and it's true it
an old warehouse, so we doesn't *look right*
could just do whatever with the neat job of
we want with it. hanging art that
she's done.
So, why not make our
current aparmtent Part of the trouble
*look* like an artist's is our landlord's
loft? It appears to insistence that we
be some idea of esthetic avoid making holes
compatibility. This is in the sheet rock
a Nice Place so we should (she's installed
make some minimal effort wooden trim near the
to make it Look Nice. ceiling that work as
rails so that
artwork can be
dangled from
moudling hooks).
We're stuck doing
things in a neat
style, as long as we
Whenever I have to live in live here (and try
situation like this, I start to comply with our
pondering building a network agreement).
of two-by-fours lining the
walls of key rooms, so that My cables look
I can attach anything sloppy next to the
anywhere I want on the fly, neatly hung art,
without worrying about and the obvious
leaving holes in the solutions tend to
plaster: a substitute for involve drilling
the studs inside the walls holes to thread
that they insist on hiding them through.
from me.
Going through these
conniptions to protect
sheet rock has to be one
NEATLY_SEALED of the silliest tasks
I've ever taken on.
Plaster and paint
just isn't that
expensive, or difficult
to repair.
(We constantly debate
whether we should just
forget about the letter
of our promise to the
landlord, and eat the
contracted penalty, if
she chooses to apply it.)
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