They had me south west today. This area isn't too bad, but but I spent most of my day lost. That part of town makes no sense. The first job was in a apartment complex. Though no one answered the door. So I called it not at home.
I then went to a house a little to the north. No one was at this house either. I called the guy and he said he was told no one needed to be there. I told him I would look around but if he still has the problem, he needs to schedule an appointment for when he can be there. I jumped his fence and replaced a couple of questionable splitters. I ripped my jeans in the process. I then left. My next job was a couple blocks away. This was another house. There was an elderly woman here with her two daughters. She had issue with her phones. I pulled out the phone line and put it back in and everything was fine. I looked around outside and found an exposed phone line which I removed because it was probably causing a short. I told her all this and left.
I then had an install at a apartment building in the area. There was an older couple here. They were very nice and ultra religious. This I could tell by the video cassettes and the fact that the guy said he recently upgraded his service so he could get TBN. They wanted a new box in the other room. They used to have satellite and the guy made it a point to tell me how much more he likes my company versus the Dish. So the room already had cable running to it, I just had to hook it to cable instead. They were remodeling the place working on the bathroom currently. They told me they just got married later last year. They were also excited about baseball season.
I then got a call to go back to my first job who wanted me to go back. So I went back. The place was answered by a young woman who looked pregnant. The place was empty. She pointed to where she wanted the Internet to be. I was in the corner with the stains. She had a rambunctious pit bull, who apparently is not house broken. She said the computer was going to go in the corner with the stains once they cleaned the place up. The dog would get in my face whenever she left the room and step all over my computer. She spent the whole time on the phone. I got out of there as quick as possible.
I was then given a job at a gated community. I was here to install a new outlet. There was an older woman here. She said her daughter had just moved back in and needed cable in the other room. So I had to drill a new hole and run some cable. The quickest way to do this was to run it on the ground and set up an appointment to bury it. Once done she asked me to move the cable box in the other room which was easy enough.
I was then given one more job before lunch. This was an apartment above the leasing office. There was a young couple here. They were having serious problems with there cable. Everything looked fairly new and I replaced as much as possible to fix the problem, but nothing worked. I tracked it down to the line in the wall, so I had to schedule an appointment with post-wire and finally go to lunch.
After lunch I went to a house way south. There was a young woman here. Though at one point her kids showed up and they were about 10-12 years old, so maybe she wasn't that young. She showed me the basement where her EMTA and cable box were. I found several connectors that needed to be replaced. Then I went outside and found a bunch more connectors to be replaced as well as some old filters at the tap. Once finished I went to my next job.
This next job was another apartment complex. There was a young Hispanic man here with a young boy. The boy was playing on a gameboy waiting for the TVs to come back on. The guy was his uncle, he seemed like a nice guy. My notes said that all three TVs were not working. Which they weren't when I showed up but they were obviously getting signal so I sent them a download and they all came back on.
My last job was a downgrade. This was a house to the north. I just had to add a filter to the tap on the outside. Once in the alley way a random guy appeared out of nowhere and asked if I was here for his house. I was not. We talked a little bit and then he disappeared again. I finished the job and went home.