Redneck Tech

Living in the "hill country" of east central Ohio as I have for the past 10 or so years, I have found a lot of humor in Jeff Foxworthy's "You might be a redneck" routines. Seriously, if you are ever around New Philadelphia, Ohio sometime, stop into the local Wal Mart and you will see what I mean. I'm not hating on the good people that shop there, we do often because we can get more for our money there, but you'll see what I mean. But I've not only seen that in the people around me, I'm starting to see if more and more in myself.
Today I had on my list of chores the task of running some RG6 and Cat 5 from the downstairs to the living room. Doesn't sound like too much of a task, right? Wrong. The basement is all dry walled and the ceiling is finished as well, so drilling holes between floors is out of the question. The only way to the cable wire from down stairs up is to use the cold air return shaft that runs from the unfinished laundry room downstairs to behind where the tv is upstairs. Okay, still not a problem, right? Wrong. It's about a 7 to 8 foot run. Now, I could go somewhere and buy one of those fancy tools that help you feed cable through a conduit, but that costs money you know. So that's when the redneck computer geek in my shines through.
Thinking that I needed a way to run the cable down the shaft, I went to the garage and grabbed my old fly fishing pole. I taped the two cable together, then taped the cables to the end of the fly rod. I removed the end of the vent in the laundry room and started to push the fly rod down the shaft with the cable attached. After a few minutes, I gave it one more push of the fly rod, went upstairs and behold! There was the end of the fly rod with the cables attached. I pulled the cables and fly rod through the vent, and ta-da! I was good to go!
So today I came up with...
"You might be a redneck computer geek if you use a fly rod to fish cables rather then using is to grab fish out of a lake."
Time to continue on with my list of chores.