Tuesday, August 5, 2008

The Wizard of Oz

well, last night we were just chillin and doing a job. so, the next thing I know, i'm sitting there installing a panel for nate, and then the power just goes out. the rain is coming down like crazy sauce. well, then the tornado warning went off and then the power went out. pitch black. so I had to use my phone as light so I could get everything done and put together so there weren't just randome wires just sitting there. so, that was awesome cause I just kept working and the job was almost finished. the only thing we couldn't do was the garage because the door wouldn't open so nates going to go back today. well, that was the exciting story cause there was a tornado in schaumburg and then a power outage in chicago. it was a wonderful way to end the night.

Sunday, July 27, 2008

so, the other day i was driving and i was just minding my own business talking with steve and we were going to turn up the volume in someones house. well, I am going to cross the tracks and i hear the train horn, well, i look over and sure enough, it's just about 15 feet away from my head. there were no lights or anything to warn me so yeah. I almost died. twice in one day. first the train, then i almost got hit on the freeway and that would have just killed me cause the dude was not paying attention. so, that's my exciting story for the day.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

stuff

so, basically it's been a month since i've done this. that's how long the internet has been out in my apartment so I decided that I would take my computer somewhere to get internet. it's midnight thirty and I am sitting outside in the grass by the club house making sure that the internet works. kinda of exciting, at the same time, scary cause the sprinklers might try to put an end to my midnight meeting. well, the other day there was a trailer truck that fell over on an exit ramp so that was scary. the whole thing just broke apart and there was supplies of whatever, everywhere. sickticious. well, today was awesome cause I hardwired 3 doors and two motion sensors into the panel. that's the most that i've done so far. lucky for the sales rep or he would have been eating his points saved. my, techs

Sunday, June 29, 2008

the night life

well, installs are normal. things are going well and I only have minor problems now. it's actually pretty cool. I did have one install that took me forever cause I couldn't get the garage door sensor to work cause it was too far away or something so that sucked and then the wife was really sweet and stuff....not. well, the other awesome story is that when we are in chicago, we are in a black neighborhood and sometimes it's not the safest place. well, I got done with my jobs so i went to help steve so we could get everything done and get home at a decent time. I guess on saterdays they are going to give us jobs after 7 so we have somewhat of a weekend. well, his car didn't start so it was really dark, so we are just kinda sitting there and yeah. it starts and he decided to go to a job and partial it, well, he leaves his car running so it doesn't die again and he locked himself out so I had to drive back, I was on the freeway, and go help him out. we finally get in and then we drove home realy fast. i got stuck behind some slow cars and that was really frustrating. but, that was the horror story of the week cause I admit I was a little scared.

Friday, June 27, 2008

Bust!

so, the exciting story for the day was that I installed a system for an undercover police officer. he was a really cool guy and was telling me some stories about what he has done. apparently, they are allowed to do the pit maneuver where you hit the back of the car and make them spin out. he said that if he could have done that, he would have arrested a lot more people and that things might be a little better in his neighborhood. which was strange because he was in a really nice home place. but, just a mile down the road was straight up ghetto. it's suprising how it changes so fast. reminds me of my mission. speaking of cops, the other week, I got pulled over. I was going 20 over, with no headlight, failed to signal, and I think my insurance is expired. but, he had pity and just gave me a warning instead. he was a champ. I think that he felt sorry that I just drove and hour to get home cause we were still in rockford, and because I had an early job. so, he's cool. welp, that's about all I can think of right now.

Medians

So the other day, i was driving. I was going to a job and I really wasn't paying close attention to the traffic so I was turning left and kinda just went. well, the oncoming car honked so I cut a little sharper than normal, causeing me to go on the other side of a median and head for a car. I swerved out of the way but there was a wonderful 2 foot high, 3 foot wide median waiting to meet the tires of my car for the first time. well, I went over it and bottomed out my car. so i think that's the problem I have been having with me car. but, it was quite exciting cause as soon and the tail pipe cleared the cement, I started to drive again, and there was a wonderful officer of the law just kinda looking in amazment. so, that was fun.

so this is the anchor of the ship Chicago. and it's an the navy pier. fun stuff. my sister has the same picture when she was traveling to NY. I feel special. well, anyway, it's cool cause it wasn't a hot day and things are cool. we just chilled that day and I dropped my camera so that sucked. so now on my camera it dates the picture as jan of 1980. awesome. anywhosits, it was a fun freakhog of a day.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

The TS 2000

yesterday, whence i was traveling to the new area to install, I was stuck behind a trailer truck for umm, about 45 min. the bad part about it was in that 45 min of travel, we moved a total of 1.4 miles, or so says my gps. so, I was looking around and found out that the trailers name was ts 2000. then I started thinking. that would be an awesome band name. and then the best part struck. you could perform all of your concerts on a ts 2000 trailer! Genius!

Sunday, June 22, 2008

dead



so this is the result of chase's car kinda exploding. it just blew a hole in his engine and now he has to find a new car. he is a tech also and really funny so it was sad when this happened. can we have a moment of silence for his car..........................thanks.

Chicago!

well, it's been umm two weeks from the last post. man I suck at this just as bad as I do keeping a journal. well, it's been a bit but life is good. went to chicago last week and took a bunch of pictures of the city from the 2nd tallest building? the sears tower. it was quite amazing. I would not want to fall off the edge of that one. anyway, things are going well as a technition. It's fun to talk to the customer and getting food. most of them will give you some water or soda, sometime you even get lunch or dinner. it's pretty cool that way. so in the next couple of blogs i'm going to tell you what i've been doing and what's been going on for the past two weeks.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

ADT

well, today i had a wonderful suprise of being on the tech's end of a sale. we got a job and went over and started to install it. well the wires were all messed up and then the phone went out and the ladies son came over and started to yell at us and moan about how it was taking so fetching long. so he decided to call adt and ask them if we were with them after the fact that we told him we weren't and that's when all the cuss words in my mind started. he thought his mom was conned but whatever, so we stopped and took everything out and that's about it. so we thought, then the cops came and questioned us and all they could say was, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the contract and what not so it's bull. we were almost done with the job too but then we left and I was mad the whole night. grr those adt folk. well, now I am offically a tech and will get some jobs and training tomorrow. I am excited for that cause nothing can be as bad as today.

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Connectivity

so, the internet doesn't like my computer. every time I am online, it decides to kick me off and make me scream and throw things out the window. I am talking and writing emails and then, bam. nothing. I really want to kill it. oh, and it doesn't connect unless I am in the corner of my living room right next to the window that faces the clubhouse cause that's where I get my internet. no where else does my computer work. stupid thing. so, if I am talking to anyone and I just stop talking, now you understand the connectivity problem

Thursday, May 29, 2008

morning alarm

I hate the morning. I had some crazy ninja come in and try to kill me. Wish megan were here to take care of that one.

morning alarm

I hate the mornings. I don't get to bet till really late. well, this morning, I had a wonderful suprise where a ninja tried to kill me. megan, where are you when I need you to do my bidding?

morning alarm

I hate the mornings. I don't get to bet till really late. well, this morning, I had a wonderful suprise where a ninja tried to kill me. megan, where are you when I need you to do my bidding?

curse that manual billing

manual billing sucks. I would have had 2 sales. but they didn't qualify for manual billing but they wanted it anyway. that sucked. frustration up the wall. other than that, it's all good.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

tollbooths?? what state has tollbooths?

so, yesterday we drove to a new area called rockford. well, on the way there, the freeway has toll booths. what? who has those? so I didn't have money the first time so I had to run them so it sucked cause now I get to go online and pay them. dumb. stupid booths. so, the new area is awesome cause there are tons of houses that you can take over. there are a lot of old apex so it's going to be easy to get some sales today. and I mean, who doesn't like getting money

Monday, May 26, 2008

encore

so basically that blog is edited. there should be a couple of shits, hells, and damns in there. you can put them in where it pleases you. I don't give a

Fueling my eternal hell fire of hate

well, today sucked. It was a holiday so we are supposed to be able to sell more accounts today than other days cause people are home and what not. well, today we got a late start. we didn't know that we were supposed to start earlier than we did so we only got a couple of hours of knocking before going home. well, we get home and have a bbq which was good. but whilst we were setting everything up, the wench from hell rained her power hungry hell fire down on our show. she was super rude and then kicked us out of the pool 15 min early. boy, I was pissed. kinda wish that I could have drowned her to put it frankly. maybe I should have megan do it. she's good at killing.