Buy a Grandma's Shawls, help her pay her bills, please

19

2

847

I dyed a bunch more yarn!

16

4

777

Antique loose flaxseed fiber

9

1

496

Smart textiles

63

16

4189

FibeRobo

13

6

1255

A Sunday Evening Dump to Make Room for the Week to Come.

1251

76

90098

Now I'm uncomfortable...

63

12

1067

eat your fiber

8

1

959

You need more fiber in your diet.

45

17

3175

Apparently I've been doing it wrong....way wrong! Yummy fiber lol

54

17

9332

Sometimes I make things

28

2

1550

Anatomy of a fabric pill

9

2

706

More fiber porn for your viewing.

67

16

2495

Pashmina fiber from Kashmir, India

9

2

48477

This house was infested with a colony of brown recluses. Worst than I've ever seen. Cramped attic. About 10 glue traps full of brown recluses. 4 brown recluses I saw crawling around me. I notified customer. Hopefully no bites in my clothes on the way home

97

37

5861

Current state of affairs…

64

3

3342

Finished sunset quilt

5

0

365

keeps the pipes flowing smooth.

51

13

5465

Another FTTH subdivision done. It ain’t a 1728 but I’m proud of it.

55

17

7394

Have a small Alpaca Farm

13

7

978

FTTH ped. Someone broke multiple ringcut/midspan fibers. This is the shortest splice I’ve done and I think this is my best splice in this machine.I recommend securing the fibers in these trays that are continuing down the line.The fibers fall out easily

8

2

1455

Repairing inactive fibers in an active patch panel including active 10G to 100G backbone links and verifying with OTDR. No outage and no customers affected. The patch panel was done by previous techs and no I didn’t route those jumpers.

32

9

2302

CO/Headend splicing. My work vs it’s just a paycheck to them

24

6

2377

I made some adjustments

3

2

706

Stop and take a dump.

2253

132

423380

I made a rug that looks like a pizza that tastes like a rug that acts like a pizza (IG: KeithDecent)

3081

194

688486

When you eat dried apricots and chili-lime pepitas at work all day long.

1

1

4555

I found it! The armor cut the fiber. Somehow the whole brown tube is good. A few in brown had a few bad bend radiuses on OTDR. Always be careful when prepping at entry point.

5

3

742

Although it’s about a 15 year old 2 ct OSP cable, these bends were 100% 10 dB attenuation. Causing node to intermittently go offline due to the light dropping below spec threshold.

8

7

999

Old copper farts have no respect for fiber. I’m getting more fibers to nodes for node segments. Here’s before and after pictures. Those bad bends are 5-10 dB loss.

12

7

1123

Another Fiber to the Home build

7

7

2107

Digital fiber

76

26

2456

Another Fiber To The Home neighborhood

59

26

3487

Fiber stone?

13

5

335

New friend helping me run fiber. He flew in while I was labeling jumpers and documenting.

7

7

1058

My first 12 splices vs now 48 splices. In a similar tray.

19

7

1341

New 144 done but while we were working on it we got some preventative maintenance done on old active fibers. We’re not allowed to gaff. Here’s before and after of the hard to reach splice. Multiple spots unkinked. Water proofed.

17

1

1198

My first splice full of ice repair. Old unknown splice. We just cut it and started over.

10

2

1055

You know what? **** you

3322

232

1408558

Mavis

14

1

745

Too many pets to dress up now, missing another rabbit and cat in the mix

26

4

6159

So this is 40...

9

3

970

Truck hit our pole next to CO/HE. 38 hour shift 23-25Dec2020. ~15k customers out. Fiber damaged: (2) 288s, 96, 64. 4 splice points.

14

10

1723

I know a lot of y’all have dealt with worse trays but this is one of our worst trays in our plant. Documenting this was scary. I dread going to this splice point. Even the aerial tail was hideous. I made it pretty.

4

3

902

The treasure was inside you all the time

7

5

13676

Or you could eat vegetables.

33

4

1430

It’s not a 3456, but I’m proud of it. 108 spliced.

31

5

1415

Please no.

2

0

1222

Before and after. This bend radius was like this for years for a node. I guess the fiber splicer back then didn’t have glue or silicone to secure splice.

1

4

853

Squishy Mail from Laughing Lambs

1

1

433

Thousands of customers coming through enclosure. Had to replace due to rust and damage.

5

3

1366

lETS pUT a meTal cOyote eNclosUrE ON AN uNDErGROuND spLICE POiNT

2

5

1046

Visual comparison of a 0.3 loss vs good splice according to OTDR. Both are ribbon splices.

4

0

1316

Craziest enclosure location in our plant. It was a gun shot damage in early 2000. It was damaged again around 2016 because someone decided to cut it near enclosure. We are here to just splice the rest.

10

4

1741

When you are the only one in the grocery store wearing a mask and everybody staring at you.

3

1

11846

New Clearfield CO/HE patch panel product straight out of box. I strengthened kinks. OTDR showed no damage or excess loss.

5

1

1238

Biggest wolf spider I’ve ever seen. About the size of your palm. Thank God for gloves. I left her alone. She can help the mice population.

44

11

2443

FOSC A/B tray being courteous of the next person. 48 glued and ribbon spiced.

6

2

1648

Replaced damaged vault and enclosure without causing outages. All tube kinks gone and secured. Tube kinks at butt and about 2 feet from enclosure.

12

10

1700

When you increase your fiber intake...

2817

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