100 posts, is there a plaque or something for this?

So I was back in the southeast again. I rolled up to the house and as I entered I caught a wiff of marijuana. The guy told me that the last tech said that the signal was really low and the line needed to be replaced. At this point I thought, why the fuck didn't that tech do it? So I took a look around and noticed that the previous tech had hooked up the splitter backwards. I set it up right and now everything was getting a good signal. But the HD box was not working. I didn't see a HD box on the work order so I didn't bring any extras. This meant I had to drive back to the shop and get one. It was at this point that I knew my day was hosed. When I got back I caught yet another wiff of marijuana, like this guy had been smoking up the whole time I was gone. It must be nice to work from home. So I replaced the box and headed to my next job.
The next job was huge. The woman was on her front porch, she greeted me right away and led me inside. She showed me that her channel 6 had lines through it and channel 9 was flashing and had ghost images. So I proceeded to replace everything. I needed some splitters and saw a fellow technician down the street so I bummed some splitters from him. After a while he came over and helped me out, because I couldn't figure out the problem. Eventually I was able to eliminate everything in the house as the problem which means the problem was further up the network. So I had to turn it over to line. At this point it was about noon and I still had two morning jobs left.
At this point the day was just flying by. The next job was on the other side of the block. It was a very nice ranch style home, that you don't normally see around here. Most have been scraped off for something bigger. The guy here said he left for the weekend and when her got back he was missing a bunch of channels. I went out to the tap and found a basic filter out there. I removed and his channels were back. But he had lines on channel 6 and flashing and the ghost images on 9. So I told him that there were already people working on this.
Then I headed to another home in the same area. The guy works for Sprint / Nextel and was curious about how I use my work phone, since my company uses their products. He also told me about a new idea that they are supposed to rollout next year. The ability to control your DVR with your phone. That sounds interesting. The guy here was having a problem making his new DVR work. It turned out to be the HDMI chord he was using, which I felt a little bad about because those things are expensive. He also mentioned some problems he was having with his other DVR which was one of the really crappy ones I'm always replacing. So I replaced it. Then I split.
The next job was in a high rise in the fancy shopping district. I had actually been in this building before, I played poker here once. In fact when I stepped in the apartment I felt like it may have been the same one, but I'm sure they all look the same. He had an autographed poster of Neil Diamond on the wall. The audio on his TV would drop out. I reset the box and it came back. I told him this was typical from that model of box. I have the same one, but I haven't bothered to replaced it, partly because I don't want to lose my recordings. I told him I could replace the box, but he didn't want to make me go out and get a new box. He considered it a minor inconvenience. I told him the ways to get the sound back and left.
At this point I was starting to catch up on time so I found myself a bathroom. Then I headed to my next job. This was at an apartment on the university. No one was there at first. I called and the guy said he was 10 minutes and that the door was open if I wanted to just go in. I waited outside. The guy finally showed up after about 25 minutes. The guy said he has lived here for about 2 years and everything has been fine until recently. Now their signal was horrible. unfortunately the splitter is in the attic. The only way into the attic is through a vent that is screwed into the ceiling. Three of the screws were stripped so I just peeled it back. Then there was a rather large heavy fan above it that I had to remove, just to get into the ceiling. Once up there I had to literally dig through the insulation to find the cables and the splitter. I'm still coughing because of it. It took me a while to get through all this. Then once done I had to put the fan back and try to peel the vent back into place. But it fixed nothing. So I turned it over to post-wire. I think someone else in the building may have been tampering with the line.
The next job was at an apartment building on a really busy street. There was a short older gentlemen here. He went to the TV and turned it on but it didn't turn on. Then he told me about how it quit working. I told him bluntly that the problem was his TV. I was running behind so I didn't want to stay. He talked about watching the stock market. He didn't take the news about his TV too well. Then he started quoting Star Trek, which I thought was a weird transition from talking about the Stock Market.
The last job was further south. A very attractive woman answered the door. She had her daughters there and three little dogs. One of the dogs was limping around the whole time. It had a torn ACL. It was going for surgery tomorrow, and the surgery was going to cost $1500. She was not getting Nickelodeon or Disney. I went outside and found a bunch of old traps and removed them. I rearranged the splitter and everything was working fine. She asked me about the phones. There was static over some of her phones. I turned out that it got worse the farther you got from the base station. Having solved that I went home.