Dragonflys

I started out in a fancy part of town. The residence was a town-home. As I approached the front door I noticed several newspapers laying about as well as the mailbox which was overflowing with mail. So I knew nobody was going to answer the door. They obviously were out of town. So no one answered and i went to my next job.
This job was just to the south of the fancy area across a creek in a high rise apartment. The woman was nice, she had lots of interesting artwork on the walls. She mentioned she had just got out of the hospital recently. I looked everywhere to try and find a problem and though I found little things, I couldn't find anything that really stuck out to me. So I was left with the uneasy feeling that I may not have solved the actual problem. At one point she mentioned that she used to work for the phone company. But there is no way someone who worked for the phone company could live here. Unless she made money afterwards or was married to someone who made money.
Next I headed out east close to the suburbs. This job was in a small community I had never been in before. It took me a while just find some parking, then as I was walking to the unit I needed to get to I of course saw closer parking, but it was too late and I'm not opposed to walking. There was a lesbian couple living here, who were quite nice. Everything was working when I showed but I tinkered around and found out that the cable to the box needed replacing. As I was replacing the cable they asked me if I knew anything about subwoofers. I said no, sometimes it's best to play dumb. Although once I finished with the cable I couldn't help myself and tried to see if I could fix it. I don't know if this was due to generosity or due to a fondness for tinkering with things. Either way I couldn't get it fixed.
They scheduled me light for the morning so I started calling my afternoon jobs to get a head start on the afternoon. The first job I called was a guy who had no clue I was to show up. He then told me not to bother. But he proceeded to tell me the problem he was having. His TV would turn into black and white on HBO at night. But only on HBO and only at night. I personally had never heard of anything like this before. I told him to try a different TV. So I cancelled it and called the next job.
This job was an apartment building on a very busy road. There was a couple living here. Both of which seemed a little slow. The woman would come into the conversation about 15 to 20 seconds late. The guy seemed to be able to keep up, but he would constantly ask me questions about everything I was doing, which was getting very annoying by the end. I saw a reflective vest and a stop sign, I guess he works construction. The problem they were having is that they weren't getting a specific channel. What's weird is that I didn't think any one actually watched that channel. Anyways, they were running the cables under the carpet and the channel would cut in and out as I walked over it, so I replaced those, but that didn't quite fix the problem. At this time I checked the levels which were way too low. Then I felt like an idiot for not thinking of checking the levels sooner. Oh well. I turned out I needed to turn it over to our team that will replace the line to the apartment its self. As I was leaving the man try to offer me a tip, which I politely refused. They obviously had less than me, I couldn't take their money.
The next job was in another apartment building only a few blocks away. I was in this place recently. There was a guy in this apartment, about the same age as me. He had a projector with screen as his TV. It looked nice, though a little big for the apartment. The problem was obvious form the get go and I could see the problem as well. I replaced a few things, but there was still some problems. So I replaced the box and was on my way.
The next job was my only house for the day. This place was near where a friend of mine's dad lives. There used to be parties there all the time back in the day. The house was nice. I got the impression that the guy owned it. He was probably about the same age or maybe a year or two younger than me. He had a friend there and they were trying to install an air conditioner in the window. He wanted me to check out his TV and help him get his airport working for his mac. The airport I did first which was easy. Then I went out back to check a few things and when I got back inside the TV was working. I explained to the guy what happened. He seemed pleased that everything was working but I wasn't because I didn't really do anything to fix it. The odds are things quit working once I left. He decided to tip me which I took. I considered it to be for getting his airport working. He insisted on giving it to me, he said he was a bartender, so his big on tipping.
Last I went down south. This was an apartment building near one of the intestates. An old woman answered the doors and as she started to explain what was going on a younger man showed up. I figure he is her son, taking care of her. He proceeded to show me the computer in his room. He is very religious. There were images of Jesus and angels all over his computer and various quotes from the bible posted around the computer. He asked me about the fact that I work on Sundays. I told him it was the only shift where I come in a 8 am, I'm not interested in going into work at 6:30 am. HE agreed he wouldn't want that either. They had a weak signal so I rearranged some things to give them a better signal. Then I went home. I'm totally burnt out on this job, and I'm not interested in putting in any extra work at the moment.