After our weekly meetings I went to my first job. This was a house. A young woman answered the door. The place was empty she had yet to move in. The place had been remodeled and it looked like they had done a good job with it. I was here to set up basic TV and Internet. The job seemed easy enough, but there was one outlet she wanted activated that I couldn't find. It was in the living room in a middle wall. I climbed into the crawl space to see if I cold find anything their and couldn't, then I climbed into the attic and found the line but it was cut, so it was going nowhere. This meant I had to make a new outlet by drilling to the outside. This wouldn't be so bad if I didn't waste all that time looking for the line. I finished and went to lunch.
My first job after lunch was in the land of scrape offs. This was a large house a short round woman meet me at the door. The place was full of Native American artwork. She showed me a TV and said that the audio on channel 2 was dropping in and out and there was no audio on channels 25 and 26. I knew right away the TV was set to SAP I switched it to Stereo and left.
The next job was an install. It was at some dorms at a local art school. I was here to switch out this guy's modem for a router. He was a tall lanky sort of dorky looking black guy. He was really nice. We talked about how rediculous for the dorms of this school to be here when the school itself is in a different part of town. We also talked about movies and video games and comics. He had a PS3 and a Wii. He had some cool games.
My next job was another install. This was at a high rise apartment building for retirees. It was starting to rain I wanted to be quick about it. i checked the box outside and the apartment was already hooked up. I showed up at the apartment and there was an elderly black woman here with her two daughters. It was a transfer so they already had their cable box and it was set up exactly right before I had even showed up. I just activated everything and left, I was there maybe 10 minutes.
Since I was running so far ahead I decided to take a little break before heading to what will be my last job. This job was at an apartment complex near the hospitals. This looked like a corporate account. I was greeted by a guy who sounded a lot like Boomhower from King of the Hill. He was from Alabama. He was moving here from California. He had some family here as well. They flew out to California to move him here and then they will fly back. They were really nice. I told them about a few things in the area, like the nearest 7-11 and some places to eat. The job was easy. The guy already knew how to work everything.
While working on this last job I got called back from the guy at the dorm for art students. His router keeps dropping out. So I went back and swapped his router. We talked more about video games, then I went home.