11:46 p.m. - 2004-12-20
The Good News?Bad News Joke
...the good news is that we can start "moving in" officially and start putting art on the walls.
The bad thing is that the electrical inspector is being a prick and is coming back tomorrow, after getting us on a minor thing just to be difficult. Pain in the ass, as this place has all new wiring and the previous occupants had had the place wired with Romex.
Things that make you go, "Hmmmmmmm."
I figure the earliest I will see a C of O will be the end of this week, beginning of next week. No one gets paid until I get that C of O. Everything hinges on that.
Meanwhile, Browneye took half a day and headed out to the store with his truck load of stuff. I was supposed to get there earlier than I did, except that I discovered that some of our pipes must have frozen (it was 10° to about 15° all day today)in our downstairs bathroom...I tried blow drying the pipes and opening and closing the valves, but nothing helped.
I just gave up and went to the store...with a car full of shit myself. Got there to find Browneye and The Kid unpacking the art...lost of beautiful stuff! I noticed as it got dark that people were looking in through the windows at the art, even though it was leaning against the walls and not hung up yet. We seem to have so much art for so few walls, but we'll manage. I have to post a picture when I am down.
Tomorrow we hang the art, and Wednesday the guy from Larson-Juhl comes to do our walls (hang corner samples). That's an all day thing. Browneye is taking the day off. Also the regionanal rep from the franchise is coming by to scope out things and see where we stand. He and someone else will be there on Monday to try to get things rolling.
We had friends who are visiting in the area and saved Monday for us...not realizing that Monday is the worst day now, but there is nothing we can do :-( I hate to say it, but they had kids and the time isn't there. I said perhaps Monday night, but they need to bring the kids with them...well, yeah...even if we spent time together, we still wouldn't be spending the time because of constant interruptions.
Honestly, if I didn't have this store, I would make the time. But these folks are flying in from St. Louis that day and I wanna get this fucking store opened!
