09/02/2012:
12:00: Once the cables are done being terminated, I go to the phone patch panel and start working on the whip for the 4 phone lines, running them from the phone patch panel to the router where the are plugged into an FXO card. This will transfer the analog signal from the phone company to the router. The router will then transfer everything into VOIP inside the office. I then put the router, powered switch, and network switch into the closet. This is a temporary setup, as I have a new switch coming that will have enough ports to power all the phones and some ports left over that provide just network access. I will also cut the cables to length once I have the wire management panels in to. We then put the server back in. I plug the powered network switch to the server and configure it to allow trunking on the uplink port and to tell the other ports to tell the phones to use 1 vlan for the phone network and the other vlan for the computer network. I also tell the port that uplinks to the second switch to allow the computer vlan to that switch. Once this is configured, all the phones come online. I am able to make and receive phone calls with the setup like this. However I am not able to place more than one call on the main line as I get a busy signal. I will have them contact AT&T to fix this issue with them. I notice the phones have the wrong time. I set a few settings in the router and I still cannot get the phones to correct their time. I do a quick look up on my cell phone and it seems that I have to upgrade the firmware for the phones. Since the office does not have internet back up yet, I cannot do the upgrade at this time, so we call it a night, pack up, and get ready to head back home.
3:00: We are back in my van and headed home. We take another route home. Many red lights are on this way back home. I almost miss one of the ones that are out because the intersection is so dark and didn’t even realize it was an intersection to I was right on top of the light. Sure enough so did the person going the other way who blew right through the intersection.
3:20: We get home we eat some Mac N Cheese that my mom had made earlier in the day.
4:00: I crawl into bed.
4:30: I doze off.
12:00: I wake up after a good nights rest. My mom is frying pork chops. I am up just in time for lunch and have a few.
12:30: I text the owner and tell them the phones were installed last night, he calls me back with a few questions, but is pleased that the new system is in place.
1:00: I am on my computer, the office I was at last night still doesn’t have any internet, so I can’t do my work remotely.
2:00: I get 2 phone calls from other people working at the office. They can’t make any outgoing calls on the new phones, I tell them they need to dial 9, and that solves the issue. The second phone call is how do they talk between phones. I tell them they can dial the extension of the phone which is located in the top right hand corner of the phone they are trying to call. That solves those issues.
3:00: Still no internet. I get a call from another client about a windows genuine issue. After a few changes and activating windows again, the computer is genuine again. Some genuine machines have changes done to them that are flagged by Microsoft sometimes.
4:00: I am about to head over to my office.
4:10: I am in my van, time to go get gas first. I go to Severn/Airline, but the person who put the price in the Gas Buddy app put in $3.68 instead of $3.86. I correct this on the app and then look at the next cheapest place. This surprises me, it is usually the most expensive gas station in the area at Causeway/West Esplanade. $3.79. I go fill up and get $72.00 worth. BLAH Gas! I then drive the half mile to my office.
4:30: I am at my office. I get on my computer and start putting things together for the phones.
4:45: My computer starts having issues. I get a write delay failure. Oh great, all I need is my computer crashing now. I take the hard drive out and put it in another computer and do a chkdsk on it. I leave this running while I go to do other things, as this will take a while. It finds a number of errors and fixes them.
5:00: I take the misc box down which is our music box that plays the techno throughout the office 24-7. I am having issues with it again. I attempt to do another OS install using the repair option one more time. We’ll see how this works.
6:00: I then get a phone call from a client who is having issues with Outlook and Word. I connect to his computer walk him through a system restore to the previous Monday. Once the system restore is done I notice that he has 2 antiviruses on his computer. I attempt to remove AVG Free 2012 Twice. Then I use an AVG Removal tool to completely remove it. After the third reboot it’s off of the computer. He is then able to open Outlook and Word with no issue, problem resolved.
7:00: My computer is still scanning, and the other computer is still having issues installing, blah. I pull out my laptop and start putting everything together again to go over and do a few more things for the phone system since they still don’t have internet.
8:10: Just as I am finishing up putting everything together to go work, I check to see if I can see the computers on one last time, and what do you know, they are online, so I won’t have to be driving over there anyway I can do this remotely.
8:15: I call the business owner and let them know their internet is back up.
8:20: I get a call from my mom letting me know that she is going to McCallister’s to pick up some food. I tell her I am good, she insists, so I get the King Club with mashed potatoes and gravy.
9:00: My parents show up, they already ate before heading over. My mom has been shopping for vacuum cleaner’s and wants to vacuum the office with the Oreck that I have in the office so she can get the feel of the weight and how it feels and how well it picks up. She is impressed. She has a Dyson at home, but it is too heavy and has too much going on, and she doesn’t really like it. I eat and talk to my dad while my mom vacuums.
10:20: My parents head back home.
10:30: My computer’s hard drive is done scanning. I review the errors, some index errors, mbr errors, and orphaned files. It fixes these issues automatically with the scan. I put it back in my computer and it boots up with no issues. I have a computer back, for now anyways.
11:00: The other computer is still giving me issues. Oh well I guess I will just do a clean install. I boot into windows one more time and backup the desktop and music shortcuts to a usb drive. I then put the CD Rom in for Windows XP Home and let it reinstall.
11:59: I am still at the office, but another day is over, catch tomorrow for the continuation.
