Another Bright New Day in the Northeast

It was another bright new day here in the Northeast. For the first time in weeks the temperature got above freezing. The air was clear, the sun was bright; it felt good. You can definitely tell the sun is rising in the sky. My face may have gotten a bit sun-burned today. It supposed to be even warmer tomorrow; another bright day. Almost feels like Spring; which can't get here soon enough.

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Despite the sunshine my day got off to a bad start. I arrived at my first job promptly at 9 AM. The home already had digital services; now they had ordered more. The gentleman invited me in and guided me to the master bedroom upstairs. The new widescreen TV was on a dresser. I looked behind the set, saw the wall jack and asked him to please pull out the dresser as I went out to my truck. I did what I had to do 'mechanically' to provide the high-definition service and then went to verify it 'technically.' My signal meter looked terrible. Ugh. I had already brought the box into the house; called the office for authorization. Now I was going to have to trouble-shoot and correct the problem.

When I pulled into the driveway I suspected I might be in 'trouble.' The guy was an electrician. His work van was parked adjacent to the house in the driveway. Electricians just can't seem to help messing with the cable in the house, ya know?

I'll spare most of the details but I ended up in his attic bypassing the splitter he had cut into the line in the attic. I had to run a new line. Ugh. All these things take time. I went about doing what I had to do outside the house and up in his attic. At one point he stood at the bottom of the attic access and said, 'If they would have told me it had to a home-run line I would have pulled it.' I appreciated the sentiment, paused for a second and just said, 'I think they assume most people haven't tampered with the lines.' Sorry to say, that was the last I heard from him until everything was as it should have been in the first place....wink.

It's not uncommon for me to discover tampering with the lines.
Just really sucks when you find it first thing in the morning.
I managed to catch up and stay on schedule despite the rough beginning.
It was a nice enough day I just tried to take it in stride.

Hope you all had a sunny springlike day. Hope all's well.