My day started up in plastic land. There was a young Russian man here. He seemed really smart. He kept asking me about my job, I think he was tired of his current job. He said he was going to school as well. He followed everything I did, but didn't seem to get annoying. The job was easy. He already had the equipment from his previous place. He made it easy for me.
Afterwards I went lunch. I spoke with dispatch and they said they were giving me another job, but I assumed it was for after lunch. After having sat there for about half an hour I realized that this was a morning job. so I had to rush over there. This job was an install in the fancy shopping district. There was a short guy here. He seemed a little perturbed by my being late. He said I looked familiar and wondered if we had met before. I didn't recognize him at all. i was here to install the Internet. This was an easy job, but I got hung up on a couple things. The first is when I tried to look at the GUI for the modem to see its levels. It brought up the levels for a different modem and ti took me a while to figure this out. The levels were low so I was scrambling to fix them. When I finally figured out what was going on I moved on to his computer. He had a Mac, but was running parallel OS's , so I had the internet up on the Mac side but not the Window's side. It took me a while to figure it out.
Once done I decided to take the other half hour of my lunch and then head to my next job. Of course by doing so I ended up late to this job as well. I was met at the door by a black woman wear a nurses uniform. She had two kids here. She said she had to get back to work in 15 minutes. She told me her router was not working and then said it was in her sons room and had him lead me to his room. It was in the basement. His room was nicer than mine. He had a huge flat screen TV, a PS3, his own computer as well as a bunch of other toys. He turned the router on and I wondered if that was the problem. I looked around and I looked out back as well. I replaced a splitter and then she had to go. She bagged me to come back.
I then picked up another job at a duplex to the east. The guy wasn't there at first some electrician was. The place was being remodeled. He briefly told me what needed to be done. I fixed a couple connectors before the guy showed up. When he showed up he showed me a couple more things he wanted done, then we discussed whether he needed an HD box or a cable card for his fancy flat screen TV. We decided on the HD box and I got it installed.
I then got a job at a restaurant on prostitute row. Another tech had already been there earlier in the day. They were having problems with their audio. There was a power surge over the weekend which I guess blew out the box. He came and replaced the box, but the audio went back out 20 minutes after he left. I looked around and tried to figure out what was going on but I couldn't because the box was only hooked into audio, so I couldn't see what was going on without a TV. So I decided to replace the box, and that fixed the problem. At least I think it did.
Then I went back to the job with the black woman with two kids. I decided to replace a cable in the basement and replace the router. While I was working in the basement I noticed a bunch of fancy belts. It turns out the father is a championship boxer. He had several title belts around and posters from bouts all over the walls. I don't know why it took me so long to figure this out. The first router I put on had all the settings on it changed including the password to get into the router itself. So I couldn't get the other computer (which was in the daughter's room) to work. The daughter was in to Bratz, they were all over her room. So I had to put in yet another router and this one finally worked, so I went home.