3/11/08 - Meeting for the BUILDING

8:30 - Meet with J.F. in the morning in front of store. State Farm is scheduled to be there at 9:30. Rosa is there too.

Our dad's brother's wife sends over her brother (which we didn't know was happening) to "help" us since he works at a cleaners. He makes some suggestions like setting up a drop-off trailer in the store parking lot to keep the clientele. (We doubt this will work since the town would probably prohibit this; also, the whole point of having a plant instead of a drop-off is for customers to know that all the cleaning is done on the premises.) Rosa is very excited about this idea (to keep the customers) and offers to do it herself without thinking logically of the issues. (Would the town permit this? How much would it cost to keep this running? Would customers even come?)

He also suggests to salvage as much clothing as possible to clean the smoke smell out. (Even though Omar once worked at a cleaners where the fire was next-door and didn't even touch their actual store, and the smoke smell wouldn't come out.) We don't want to spend money cleaning and re-cleaning smoky clothing if we're just going to wind up paying a dissatisfied customer anyway.

When State Farm comes, J.F. arranges for us to receive a $10K advance in a check to use for our building mortgage. Apparently it's coming soon.

Rosa leaves. (She'd told us yesterday that she was supposed to have a meeting with her eye doctor the previous day because of her supposed bad eye condition which prevents her from working -- though apparently not driving.)

11:00 - National Waste Clean comes to drop off containers so we can take the chemicals and fill them. (They don't pump it out themselves; they only come to pick it up.)

OTHER THINGS:

(1) As per request of State Farm, we go to the office to drop off a copy of the latest mortgage statement. Our rep is going to send it to the State Farm adjuster.

(2) We deposit Saturday's money in the bank.

(3) We go to the post office to forward our store mail to a new address.