During my run this morning, a woman stopped me to ask about my shoes. I have run with Vibram Five Fingers shoes for many years now. I feel like a walking advertisement!
Eric played soccer this morning, so I decided to get some other work done and run errands. We are upgrading from DSL to fiberoptic, as is France in general. Pretty soon DSL won't be an option anymore. So I went to pick up our new internet/TV/phone boxes.
The fiberoptic technician was scheduled for early this afternoon. He showed up and said he couldn't get into the building down the street where all of the main fiber lines get hooked up. Someone pried open the lockbox and took the key that the technicians use. So we're still waiting on our fiberoptic!
We got a bit of work done before school got out. First, we cut a little channel into the edge of our subfloor and a little notch out of the edge of our joists. This won't affect the structure at all, but it gives us more space to lay multiple cables. They'll all be covered up by the hardwood flooring that will go on top of the subfloor.
Then we attached the circuit breaker and main shut-off onto the wall. We ran the big cables within the breaker to each rung. We started running the first circuit but ran out of time. None of this is hooked up to the power yet, but we do have the main power cable in place.
I figured out which size ground wire we needed (16mm2), so I measured the required length. The building has a ground wire installed inside the common area, and on every floor there is a "distributeur de terre" that you can hook up to.
Once kids came home from school, Eric took Inga and Ivy to the park. Dio stayed home to practice piano and then play Minecraft online with a friend. Zari and I took a walk to the hardware store to buy the ground wire, nails, and wall anchors.
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