My wife is happy with the new location for the light on the porch, so I get to run some more cables to power the other light points. Whoever put the existing lights in didn't bother with little niceties like junction boxes, they just drilled a hole through a beam and screwed a bar to the beam. Aside from not complying with current code requirements it works, at least until you want to connect multiple lights together. Since I'm replacing the work I need to comply as far as is possible with current code, which means junction boxes. And junction boxes can't be in the same space as beams. You can get boxes that fit around beams but these beams date back to when 2x4 actually meant 2x4 and not 1.5x3.5, so the boxes designed to go either side of a beam won't fit anyway. That means I need to drill holes in the ceiling that line up with each other as well as possible, while also considering where they can go relative to the beams. And of course the beams make it harder to feed cables because it's not a simple matter of running a fish tape through a space.
But before that I want to do my workout. I don't want to find joints twinging because I went from climbing ladders to running. I can also get my wife to help me, even if that just means holding a reel of cable to stop it twisting while I feed it from point to point. My wife has a scheduled workout today so we can do them kinda sorta together. They are quite different but I can do my speed repeats back and forth along the same stretch while she jogs back and forth. There's a quiet stretch of road near here that's about 3/4 mile, which is enough for my purposes and long enough that she isn't spending more time turning around than jogging.
