Final Week of Construction

This is the final week of construction - everything will be finished by Friday...hopefully. The electrical contractor has finished wiring the high ceiling lights and has also installed lights in the office, break room and restrooms. Real light!! They need to start hustling on the low ceiling lights now.

AT&T comes on Tuesday to install our phone lines. Pam spent the weekend setting up the our new Talkswitch phone system. She says it is hard to believe how much it can do considering how little we paid for it.

The wall graphics have been installed - here are a couple of pictures.

Our first product shipment arrived today (two weeks early) from Amerock which is a line of cabinet knobs, pulls and hinges. Fortunately our pallet jack was delivered this morning so that we were able to unload the freight. Of course the first product received had to be damaged in shipping. The box was broken and product was spilling out so we had to do a complete check-in to be sure that everything was there. Also the free display that comes with the product was damaged beyond saving, so they'll have to send a new one. Doesn't seem like a good omen.

My friend JaeJay is working away on the security camera system. Today he brought me Korean Ginseng and Ginseng Tea. He says Korean Ginseng is the best. At least, I think that is what he said.

Race visited the store again over the weekend while we did our construction pre-punch list walk-thru. He collected a box full of treasures (snipped wire, j-box slugs, screws, washers, chain, a plastic cockroach, etc). He also got up on the lift to see what it was like.

Our big project for this week is to begin the employee recruiting and hiring process. We've been putting off this dreadful task, but couldn't wait any longer since our first work day will be March 9. We put an ad on Craig's List and within seconds had 20 responses. By the end of the day we had over 50 responses. There are a lot of unemployable people out there!