Digital Impulses

Moving along

To Sum:

• All day working in Carson today
• Bakery deal is REAL DEAD. Daniel & Benny had a blow-up recently and now Daniel states he won't sell to us for $300,000, even.  Asshole.
• Isa went to the Chiropractor's for a visit.  She got good news, so far.
• Reyna offered to let me buy a laptop.  Cool.
• I had dinner with Bert & Patty at Benihana's.  Good stuff, as usual.
• Scrabble was cool.  I lost both games, but I had a I had a good conversation with Bert about the Bakery.

Project POLGVB: It never stops. The Drama, that is.

Project POLGVB Status:

• More Drama. Forced to look for alternate bakeries.  (Pete found 'em).
• Daniel "wants to wait" to sell.  He's being a total JERK.

I can't see how the deal is ever going to get done.  There are confusing signals, with rumors of Ofelia telling Mauricio at the Jose Marti that he should talk to my wife to convince her to buy.

WTF???

Project POLGVB: Initial meeting with the Fajardo's Lawyer = EPIC FAIL

What an unmitigated fucking disaster.

It all started with us getting utterly LOST in Marina Del Rey trying to find the lawyer's office inside this insanely complicated, labyrinth structure of buildings.  Eventually we found where to park and made our way to the lawyer's office.

With both the Fajardos there along with their accountant, we sat down and started the discussion.  It eventually came down to specifics, specifics that my wife was in disagreement with.  The conversation devolved quickly from that point and we ended up leaving the office in acrimony.

Much drama ensued on the way to the car and on the drive home from the lawyer's office.  It seems utterly incredible to me that this process has unraveled the way it has.

I am a little speechless right at the moment.  I am recording these events so as to have something to refer to later or in a year from now, so I can see where we were at this point in time.

Dammit, this sucks.

Project POLGVB: Initial meeting with Bilbaito

This afternoon after my visit with Isa @ TMMC, The wife and I had a meeting with the Fajardos to explore the terms of the sale regarding Project POLGVB. The meeting was held at Bilabaito's office in Hawthorne and Roberto Bilbao played the role of "mediator" if you will.

The meeting went OK, and we will be meeting with a lawyer to hammer out the particulars sometime next week.

After that meeting I came home and watched "The Insider" with Al Pacino and Russell Crowe on my iMAc in my office.  Good movie.  I love Al Pacino.  He does a good role in this movie.

Busy Monday: preapring for a work laptop re-image

Work laptop re-image
After some flaky behavior by my work laptop over the weekend, I decided to scrap the current install and prepare for a re-image of the thing in the next few days. So, as soon as I got to work, I began the process of backing up my data, exporting my Outlook Data and uninstalling any apps that the IT department might frown upon.

Project POLGVB
The rest of the work went by and in the afternoon we visited our accountant for an initial meeting to discuss the particulars of a business transaction we are currently mulling over.  That was a rather illuminating experience and we discussed many important themes and pitfalls.

The rest of the evening I spent at mom's for a visit to watch TV and then I called it a night a little after 2200.

Loan Docs signed

Finally.

The night arrived when we finally sat down with the gentleman from the Notary Public that came representing the escrow company that was going to do this loan transaction for us.

He arrived a few minutes after 2100 hrs and was a Hispanic guy, young, well-dressed and very professional.  My wife seems to be OK with him and we got down to signing the docs.  He answered all of our questions well enough and the whole thing took about 30 minutes.

Now to wait for the vetting process to happen and to see if anything else happens or comes back OK. Hopefully, no surprises are looming and everything will be OK so we can move forward to the 2nd level of the POLGVB Project.

Wish me luck.

Project POLGVB: I can see the finish line (I hope)

Spent the afternoon gathering additional documentation to send to the loan broker to put what are hopefully the finishing touches on the funding for Project POLGVB.

I managed to send over most of what he needed and the rest will be sent over tomorrow morning.  The faxing of these documents was done from mom's house after which I spent a very enjoyable visit with her watching TV until about 2200 or so.

Project POLGVB: 2nd appraisal date set

Just got off the phone with the 2nd appraiser and he will be stopping by the house tomorrow Tuesday, July 22, 2008 to appraise the house.  This appraisal will be crucial in determining the final total amount of *cash* that we can pull out of the house in regards to Project POLGVB.

This is certainly turning out to be a really interesting time in my life.  I am going to look back on this time in 5 years and really wonder how I made it through with my sanity intact.

Amazing, really.

Project POLGVB: The never-ending flood of paperwork

Spent most of the afternoon today after work, faxing over documents to Darryl both from my office and from the FedEx-Kinko's office on Rosecrans just past the 405 freeway.

Also in support of Project POLGVB, remodeling is progressing nicely and the 46in flat scree HD TV was mounted in the den today.  It looks great and once we have that space looking the way we want, it will be nice to watch TV in there, I think.

At one point the spousal unit expressed being very, very happy with the minor face-lift that our house is getting in the midst of the preparations for the visit of the appraiser coming up real soon now.  On the funding front, the loan process has shown lots of progress and things seem to be coming along just fine.

Amazingly enough, it seems like the credit situation re-focusing that we have undertaken in the wake of trying to get Project POLGVB off the ground has caused a beneficial effect on our credit scores and they seem to be edging up slightly

Nice.  :=)

Project POLGVB: Remodeling starts

Alberto's crew are in full force around the house today, working away at completing the light remodeling we have scheduled in advance of the second appraisal visit we have coming up.

Speaking of that, I got Manny the appraiser who is scheduled to visit us on the phone today along with my wife and we had a quick phone conference in which we set a tentative date for him to come by and do the appraisal