My sincere apologies for the radio silence this last week. It has been a hectic and stressful last few days but everything seems to be coming together now!
So here’s the scoop. I took possession of my new internet cafe on June 30th. I went over everything with the owners and he showed me the ropes. It was going pretty smoothly until we realized that a miscommunication between us ended up with him disconnecting the phone and internet. He was under the impression that I was arranging that all myself. Fortunately my old girlfriend is dating a guy who works for Telus. So he phones me up and essentially puts through a work order on the Saturday instead of me having to wait until Tuesday because Monday was a holiday.
A tech rep shows up on Wednesday to fix the phone line, apparently something went wrong when they tried to reconnect it. Unfortunately I had to wait until this afternoon for the ADSL to be hooked up.
In hind-sight it was a good thing that I wasn’t able to open until now. It gave me a chance to clean out the entire place and rework some of the software bloat that was installed on the machines. The bad part is that a ton of money never came in which I could have used.
Since the seller of the business wasn’t using a lawyer it created more work and made things more difficult for my lawyer. Also, June 30 is the busiest day of the year for real estate lawyers since it’s summer, middle of the year, and end of the month. Lots of possessions take place on that day. Apparently I was 1 of 32 possessions he had to deal with!
So part of my stress was from some missing money! Since my lawyer was swamped, when I wrote the cheque for the purchase out to him (he holds it in trust for the seller) we forgot to subtract my previous deposit of several thousand dollars. Needless to say when I looked at my bank account later I was pulling hairs out wondering what I could have overlooked because I needed that money for some first month expenses! I ended up pulling it from my credit card which is very very very bad, never do this! In the end I figured it out and gave him a ring, I’m picking up the money tomorrow morning and hopefully I can convince Visa to waive the cash advance fee.
Apparently debit machine accounts aren’t transferable. I have a useless machine sitting in my storage room that is still assigned to the old owners. Good thing my bank is hooking me up with a decent rate and any deposits don’t count as transactions in my bank account.
It’s really poor that Telus has taken so long to reinstate my internet connection. I’ve basically missed a week of all things Nexopia and work does need to be done! Now I’ll be able to spread my time across both the cafe and working for Nexopia. Obviously I won’t be full time, more like 1/3 time, but it’s still a connection I want to keep. I’m just going to have to put my trust in everyone else there which in the past was hard to do when I wasn’t involved in a decision. Oh well, I can’t have my cake and eat it too.
Tomorrow I’m going to install Firefox and some other goodies on the computers. The last owners knew how to set up a network but I don’t think they had much knowledge of tweaking and making good software perform.