Wednesday

After the morning meeting I was given a rider. He was a cool guy, he works at the call center. He was itching to help out, but there wasn't much I was comfortable in giving him, without any proper training.
I only had one job this morning, it was an install. The house was a scrape off. This meant I had to run a new line to the house, which wasn't too bad. They were still moving into the house. The wife was clueless. She would talk about the round white thingy with the one part sticking out (her wireless router). So talking to her was a little frustrating. In the main room the TV was on one side of the fireplace and there was conduit running wires behind the fireplace to the other side where the cable box and other electronics like the DVD and the stereo. But none of the cables had ends. Not only that but there was no electrical outlet there at all. Which made the cables useless. I told the couple they should complain about this, but the husband said that he got the place kind of cheap actually because whoever built it abandoned the project (probably ran out of money). The job wasn't very difficult. When I was done we were able to take our time with lunch and get to the next job early.
The next job was a house right on one of the busier streets in town. The woman here didn't really care about anything. Whenever I asked her about anything she would just responded with, I don't know. She was watching Sex and the City for most of the time we were there. Her kid was running around the whole time as well. She had a dog in the yard. It was an ugly dog but it was avery rambunctious, excited dog. To do the job I had to go into the neighbor's yard. The whole time I was in the neighbor's yard the dog would jump up and I could see it's head rise above the fence. The job took a while because she had a dish, so I had to try a figure out which lines, went where. Not only that but the boxes I brought in weren't working, so I had to replace those. I hate when I get bad equipment from the warehouse.
The last job was at an apartment complex. There was an older woman here. She is an optometrist who just moved here from Maryland. She was from Sweden originally. There were all sorts of little gnomes around her apartment. She said she was looking forward to the snow. The job was pretty easy. I was trying to rush through it so that I could go home. She was trying to be talkative by I wasn't too receptive, so I let the rider do the talking. Afterwards I had to go back to the shop to drop the rider off.