My day started at a new building. These looked to be condos of a sort. Cheaply made as most new construction is. I could see parts where the stucco was already coming off to reveal the Styrofoam underneath. Nobody answered the door, so I called it not at home.
As I was waiting to get a new job I fell asleep. I was aroused by my radio going off, to tell me I had two new jobs. The first was a disconnect at an apartment complex. Nobody was working the office yet so I had to be let in by the cleaning crew.
The next job was a high rise of retirees. Nobody was at this one either, though. So I picked up a job at another high rise. This was a very fancy place, I've been into a couple times before. Each floor of this building is divided in half. I was met by a black woman. She showed me the TV with the box on it. I could see it wasn't working right. I looked and followed the line to another TV. I found a splitter and replaced it and then I found a connector that needed to be replaced. The problem was that there was no slack, so the connector was in the wall and I couldn't replace it. So I decided to try and bypass it. I worked on this for at least an hour, before finally giving up. I hooked everything up the way it was before and slightly tweaked it so it was working for now, and then I left out of frustration.
My next job was across the street. I was met outside by an Asian girl. She led me inside the building. She let me into her apartment and started to speak to her roommate. I then entered the living room where her roommate was. The roommate was wearing a large shirt and when I entered the room she proceeded to move her hands to cover up the lower part of her body. I diverted my eyes and she hurried out of the room. She must have only been wearing that shirt. The place was a mess. This building is a half way house for single moms, though I didn't get the impression that either of these women had kids. I was here to pick up the modem. I guess they didn't want Internet anymore.
My final job of the morning was an apartment in the same area. The door was answered by an older woman, she went to walk the dog and told me the guy would be here in a second. A young man about half her age let me in. At first I thought these two were mother and son, but it turns out they were lovers. His eyes were glowing red. I just woke him up. I was here to put in an HD/DVR. The place was a mess. There were empty shooter bottles on the floor ashes everywhere. Empty pizza boxes. Plates with food that is god knows how old, just laying around. The whole time I was there he would only talk to me by asking questions. Then when I responded he would say, "Right On." After a while I started to ask him questions. He works at night mainly. He told me he was a bike messenger. He mainly just delivered summons. I really didn't want to enter this place it was so messy, so I pretty much did the job from the doorway. Once finished I went to lunch.
I only got one job for the afternoon. This was a large house in the country club area. There was an older woman here. I was here to hook up one TV with an HD/DVR and a modem. She had a computer guy there setting up a new computer for her. The job seemed easy. Though much of the place was old. I had to replace many connectors and splitters, just to get the place up to date. When up on the pole I removed a bunch of filters, but I missed one. This cost me maybe an hour, before I climbed back up there and found the filter. The woman herself didn't know how to work anything. I found myself not only explaining everything in detail, but in triplicate. It was frustrating, but I got through it. I don't think any of it sunk in. Thankfully the computer guy was a friend of hers and he knew how to work everything. Once finished I went home.