Mrs. Fix-It

So after 2 years of having an office-slash-playroom in what used to be our sunroom, we finally decided to un-merge the two and move our office upstairs. This means that our guest room is now an guest room-slash-office but it just makes more sense since that room is used much less frequently than our playroom.

I've spent the better part of the last week rearranging, moving, unhooking & re-hooking up electronics. Only to realize that the cable (aka internet) line is not hooked up to that bedroom. The line is there, it was just not connected & configured to the cable line outside of the house.

After call to Charter, who tried to scam us out of $50 for them to come "assess" the problem, Ben convinced me that it was something he could easily remedy, especially since he already had the tools and parts needed. However, it gets dark at 5pm now, so by the time he gets home, its too dark for him to go tinker with it and I'm not exactly patient on things like this.



So I decided to be my resourceful self and figure out how to tie in the cable line so we could get our modem & wireless router back up and running. In about 20 minutes, I had disconnected the old cable, found out which new cable was the correct line, crimped a new end to that line & had it all up and running. I even rigged up the baby monitor so I could see which line got cable to the TV I had temporarily hooked up to save myself 15 trips up and down the stairs:



Its so empowering to figure things out that seem intimidating at first. I just this doesn't encourage Ben to move any of his "honey-dos" from his list to mine!!

The finished product:


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