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At Great Bay, across the Beach Haven Inlet from Atlantic City, there the road ends. South of Tuckerton and over the bridges and marshes of Seven Bridges Road, the terminus is at a former Coast Guard station that now belongs to Rutgers University and is a research outpost.
We slogged around in the pungent mud and marsh grasses, watching the fishing and pleasure boats cruise past, peering through the humid ocean breezes to see the towers of Atlantic City, kicking over the occasional horseshoe crab husk.
It felt good to be away from the traffic and the city, back to the beauty of nature, the sun and wind making my skin feel alive, the ocean spray fragrant with romantic notions of living near the sea.

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Beautiful place! Was it cold as it looks like?

Tue 28-Jul-2009 12:34
Posted by:Click - [Link]

Not cold at all... very warm!

Tue 28-Jul-2009 16:59
Posted by:JP

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A day spent driving to (very long and slow trip) and from (much faster at midnight-ish) the New Jersey shore and Atlantic City. Fotos later....

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Friday, 24-Jul-2009 02:27

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Working Conditions

up that ladder and into the ceiling

off it goes into the distance

new yellow stuff on top, old crap below

My work here in New Jersey is at one of our data facilities. The place is being remodeled; new paint, power, carpet, network and phone systems. I'm part of the network and phone systems tech team. We're pulling out old cables and running new stuff. We have yanked out miles of old Cat5, quad wire, coax, 25- and 100- and 300-pair phone cables, rope, broken stuff... all the things that run up in the ceiling and inside the walls and keep the place humming when everybody shows up for work each morning.
Fifteen-plus years of original work stacked with not so good modifications have left us with a quagmire of entangled paths for electrons to flow. Previous work crews for this remodeling have run a lot of the replacement network cables, Cat6 cables which will carry data and VIOP phone conversations. Those wires that haven't yet been run are being run by us. My goal is that by tomorrow afternoon we will have all the new cables run ~ the last of them ~ and that we also will have all the new terminations in place, cross-connected, and all users on the new stuff. Then I also hope that by the end of the day all our old cables will be in recycle bins.
These fotos are of my "workspace" up in the second floor ceiling area. It's not as dirty as I have seen in the other places, but there's little airflow, and we're required to walk and lay and contort ourselves all over and under the infrastructure up there. The rest of my days have mostly been spent guiding bundles of cables into the ceilings, standing on ladders to pull them along to their terminations, and sharing crude jokes with the fellas.

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