We have been extremely busy all week trying to get the pharmacy together. Today was no exception. We woke early to meet the electrician and to get an estimate. The estimate was a rip, but less than the previous, so we chose to move forward with that. An hour later, the sheetrock and painter group arrived to complete the job they started on Monday. They did a pretty good job but we’ve been getting the white person rate mostly, so that stinks.
An hour later the floor crew came to polish the marble floors. That took 5 hours. The jeffe only had one leg and it was amazing to see him make such good use of it. You would think the polishing machine would take two legs. Not for this guy. He stopped by last night for a quote and I told him it was too high. He called back 15 minutes later with a better price. I would use him again.
While moving things for the floor crew, I accidentally broke one of the Pepsi signs on one of the drink refridgerators. So we made arrangements for one of the Pepsi representatives to stop buy to discuss repairs. Of course the rep stopped by when Yun was away shopping. Even so, my sweet skills in the native tongue got the rep to exchange the fridge with the broken sign for a newer, upgraded fridge tomorrow morning. No charge. Sometimes it does pay to break things.
We spent the remainder of our 11 hour workday cleaning. So much to clean. But the place looks completely different now, so it was worth it. Sadly, as we were hauling out some trash (we have had an endless supply), we accidentally locked ourselves out. So now we are waiting for Yun’s brother to bring a spare key. I had a quesadilla for breakfast and a cup of noodles for lunch. So yea…dinner and cerveza will be nice.
We started calling vendors on Monday and received our first order of medicines today. Exciting times. We have plenty left to do, but hope to tackle a lot of that tomorrow.
