I dyed a bunch more yarn!

16

4

638

Antique loose flaxseed fiber

9

1

447

Smart textiles

63

16

4174

FibeRobo

13

6

1252

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

1247

75

89960

Now I'm uncomfortable...

63

12

1062

eat your fiber

8

1

842

You need more fiber in your diet.

45

17

3168

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

54

17

9213

Sometimes I make things

28

2

1545

Anatomy of a fabric pill

8

2

648

More fiber porn for your viewing.

67

16

2460

Pashmina fiber from Kashmir, India

9

2

48033

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

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37

5848

Current state of affairs…

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3

3339

Finished sunset quilt

5

0

293

keeps the pipes flowing smooth.

51

13

5331

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

55

17

7263

Have a small Alpaca Farm

13

7

974

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

1349

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.

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9

2164

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

24

6

2375

I made some adjustments

3

2

606

Stop and take a dump.

2252

132

422321

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

3080

194

687423

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

1

1

4133

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

652

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

886

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

1023

Another Fiber to the Home build

7

7

2017

Digital fiber

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26

2456

Another Fiber To The Home neighborhood

59

26

3486

Fiber stone?

13

5

333

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

7

7

979

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

19

7

1246

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

1174

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

10

2

1055

You know what? **** you

3321

232

1406865

Mavis

14

1

703

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

26

4

6116

So this is 40...

9

3

911

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

1631

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

802

The treasure was inside you all the time

7

5

12702

Or you could eat vegetables.

33

4

1383

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

31

5

1414

APC to UPC illustration. My OTDR shows this to be about 10 dB loss and -20 reflectance.

3

1

1619

Please no.

2

0

1093

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

758

Squishy Mail from Laughing Lambs

1

1

363

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

5

3

1258

lETS pUT a meTal cOyote eNclosUrE ON AN uNDErGROuND spLICE POiNT

2

5

934

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

4

0

1218

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

1641

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

3

1

11752

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

5

1

1148

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

2363

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

6

2

1541

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

1605

When you increase your fiber intake...

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