Tuesday

Today I started at a town home complex. I was supposed to call ahead but had forgot, so I called and left a message. Then I headed to the next job which was in a gated community. I was here to replace their box. They complained about the picture being a little fuzzy and would brake up on occasion. So I replaced the box. I think they wanted a smaller box but I had none. I got called by dispatch who dumped another job on me for the morning.
This job was in an apartment building on one of the main thoroughfares in town. This place is run down. A black woman answered the door and said her box wasn't working. She then took a shower to get ready for work. I hooked the box up and it was working fine. So I watched TV and waited for her to get out of the shower.
Next I finally headed to the first job. The guy was not too much older than me. He spent the whole time sitting at the kitchen table watching a DVD on his computer and drinking vodka out of a bottle. He said he has gone through several cable boxes with the same problem. It would keep blacking out on all the channels. I called a line tech and he said he could meet me down there latter. So I told the guy I would be back latter with some help.
I went to my next job which was back in the gated community. I was greeted by a woman on the phone. It seemed she was trying to set up a medical appointment for her kid. Every connector in the place was bad, which took me a while to replace. Afterwards the TV in her kids room would still not get Toon Disney. It took me a while but I figured out it was the TV its self.
Then I headed to a town-home complex. A woman answered the door. She said her Internet was not working and she had to get to work in about an hour. Everything looked fine, so I couldn't quite figure out what was wrong. So I just replaced the modem. Which turned out to be a problem. It turned out she was a masseuse. The basement had a massage table and had all sorts of lovely aromatherapy type odors. As I was finishing up she came down and started to light some candles and play some Indian/New Age music.
Then I went back to the first job again. The line tech was already there and watching TV outside. We determined the problem was not outside, so we headed back in. Sure enough the guy was still watching movies and drinking vodka. We tracked it back to the box. I don't know what the odds are that he got four bad boxes. But if you look inside the box you can see what looks like a brown substance had been spilled inside. I showed the customer this and he said he couldn't have done it, he doesn't drink anything brown.
Next I went to a house. The door was answered by a black guy. He seemed very slow. Like burnout slow. He wasn't getting some channels, and he asked me to move the box into the other room. I decided to move the box first, in case that killed two birds with one stone. Which it did. When I brought the box into the other room there was another black guy there. He didn't say much.
I headed out of there quick, because I was running behind. I then headed to a retirement complex. This was actually a problem I had already been out here for about a month ago. Nothing had been done since then, so I had been sent back. I explained to people in charge again what they needed to do to fix this. Then I explained it to the actual resident with the problem.
Then I headed to a town-home complex. This was the actually the neighbor of my friend. He couldn't get all of channels to work on his new box. I replaced everything. It turned out to be the line going to the unit, which required me to get on the roof to replace. The guy would not stop asking me questions the whole time. Most of the questions were stupid. He would also follow me around and observe my every action. It was very annoying. Afterwards I talked to my friend a bit and headed home.