My day started in an apartment building in a very wealthy part of town. The guy who answered the door was very nice. They had a lot of interesting little antiques about. While I was waiting for something to work on the TV, I noticed a deck of playing cards based on greek mythology. As I picked them up and started looking at them I got Deja Vu, I swear I had dreamed this sequence. The gentleman told me his wife got that while she was at the olympics in Athens. It turns out she was a producer for the olympics for NBC (even got a few Emmys), she worked Torrino as well. Now she produces shows for the Food Network here in town. In fact she works in the building that I'm trying to get a job in. Unfortunately she has no sway in the department I want to get in to.
My next job was at an another apartment building. The second I stepped in the place I was overwhelmed by the horrible cat smelled that filled the place. I don't know why some places with a cat smell horrible and some you don't even notice they have a cat. The job was easy.
The next job was in an apartment complex for elderly people. The woman greeted me at the door. I noticed that her hands were clinched and somewhat disfigured. She could only use her thumb and index finger. The problem was that C-SPAN on digital cable is a different channel than on analog, so she couldn't find it. I don't know why someone couldn't cover that over the phone.
After this I went to a house. This neighborhood seems to have a large russian population. This couple though isn't russian. The place was trashed. There was a weight lifting bench in the front yard as well as four tires and some car parts. The inside was equally trashed. I don't know how people let their place go like this. The husband answered the door in slacks and no shirt. The wife apologized and said they are on vacation all week. After a while the wife kept talking to me, about random stuff. Once again an easy fix.
After this I was so ahead schedule I started to call my afternoon jobs to see what I could finish early. So I went to a house, where I was greeted at the door by an elderly couple. They were nice, but the problem turned out to be a setting on their TV.
Unfortunately nobody else was going to let me show early, so I had to wait. After lunch I went to my next job which I was actually at a little over a month ago. This was the Jewish masseuse, who told me stories of living in Berlin while they built the wall. He told me that the Stazzie were worse than the Gestapo. We talked about various things. his was excited that his kids were coming home for summer. He said one is in an all boy Orthodox Jewish high School, where the kids live on campus and the other is studying to be a Rabbi at a prestigious school on the east coast.
I was still ahead of schedule so I had to wait once again before the next job. For the next job I had to go into one of the poorer neighborhoods in my area. The place seemed cluttered. The husband obviously seemed to think himself a handyman. He obviously wired the place himself. It's hard to fix things that a guy has done, especially right in front of him. Some guys take it personally, like your emasculating him. But I did have to replace everything that he did. I had to go into the crawl-space. There was a TV playing in the background and right as he opened the crawl-space, the was a rattlesnake on the TV. The timing was perfect.
My last job of the day was in a very rich neighborhood. The disparity can be pretty extreme between my jobs sometimes. The place was very nice. The lady said she was retired and spends her free time working for non-profits. She doesn't look that old, but if you live in this neighborhood I guess you might not need to work. She said she is currently working for a non-profit working or research for Alzheimer's disease. For this job I had to get into the crawl-space as well. This crawl-space was full of rocks and shards of some broken light bulb. At one point I looked down and saw my wrist was bleeding. By the time I finished it was 6 p.m. I was supposed to get off at 3:30 p.m.