My day started at a town-home complex. It's a very rainy and cold day so I waited a little while in my van while listening to Will Short's puzzles on NPR. Eventually I went up to the door. No one answered and the phone number on my paper work was disconnected. So I called it in as not at home.
The next job was at an apartment building. I actually did the install on this unit. Though at the time it looked like it was just a woman with her child it now seems she has a boyfriend. The only thing I really remember from the install was that she was smoking while her child was there. Her boyfriend was very nice, in fact they all were. They were missing some channels. They had a really low signal, I think I remember this being a problem last time. I tried to turn over to our post-wire team, but the supervisor said it might need to go to line. So I had to pull out my ladder and get up the pole. I wasn't too happy about this fact considering the weather, but I did it anyway. As I was up there I saw some squirrel chew and water damage, so I fixed the line, which cleared up their TV. But I turned it over to line anyways. In fact I don't think the line technician was too happy about this either, because he kept calling me about it. I kept telling him that the sup told me to turn it over.
The next job was at a retirement complex. There was an old guy here watching "Miller's Crossing." His TV wasn't loud enough and he wanted me to give him a better signal. His TV was turned up all the way and admittedly it wasn't loud at all. It was about as aloud as I have my TV. I knew I couldn't explain to him that signal level has nothing to do with volume so I decided to humor him. I went outside and gave him a better signal and then I told him it was his TV. He didn't like this at all. He refused to sign my paperwork because the problem wasn't solved.
The next job was at an apartment complex. There was a young guy here. He had one of our bad DVR's, so I switched it out. We talked a little about the local sports teams. At some point a woman appeared from the bedroom and then went back. Afterwards I called in to dispatch to see if there were extra jobs out there and they said there were two jobs on the other side of town.
So I went to lunch and read a bit. Then I called my afternoon jobs to see where I could go to early. The next job was another little town-home complex. There was a woman here and her DVR wasn't working properly. I switched it out with a new DVR. But it turned out it was an HD box not a DVR. I asked for four DVR's this morning and was given four HD boxes. This means that the last place I had been to I most likely gave an HD box to not a DVR. Which will be a repeat on me. I wonder how long it's going to take him to figure it out? Luckily I have two DVR's on me. So I was able to get her one.
The next job was up in the poorer neighborhoods. This house was very unkept. Everything was overgrown with tons of weeds. The front porch was falling apart. Inside the place was extremely cluttered. The woman apologized and mentioned something about somebody moving. I wasn't sure if that was moving in or moving out. But the place was chaotic. The woman showed me a DVR in the bedroom. It would record a show but not play it back. So I used my last actual DVR here. She was doing something somewhere else in the house the whole time. This job didn't take long either.
My last job was a house over by the hospitals. The place was nice. It looked like it had been recently remodeled. The guy here was watching the Dallas/New England game which had recently started. He said he had been out of town and when he got back his HD box wasn't working. So I replaced the box and made his picture look better in the process. I called in to dispatch to see if there was any work left because it was only a little after 3 p.m.. But there was no work left so I went home early.