It was sometime before Christmas when I turned to @mrsbozz and mentioned that we haven't gotten together with @a4xjeeper and his wife lately. I reached out to him to see if we could meet for dinner, but due to the business of the holiday season and family obligations it wasn't going to work out.
It wasn't very surprising then that he reached out to me last week asking if we were able to get together on Friday or Saturday evening for dinner. I knew we had some stuff going on Saturday, so I picked Friday and after a little back and forth about where we should meet, the date was set.
You might recall from my previous posts that @a4xjeeper is in the process of moving his business to a new location and it has been anything but a smooth process for him. It started with permit issues to have a portion of the wall removed on his new building so he can put in rolling doors to pull his trucks inside at night.
Once that was all settled, he started having issues with people cutting through his parking lot via a pass through.
The initial solution was to put up concrete barriers, but that caused two more problems. First, someone decided to shove them out of the way. Then, it also caused outrage among the lazy members of the community who used that pass through (illegally) as a shortcut.
After things died down with the community a bit (after ten minutes they found something new to complain about), he moved the barriers back and decided to plow the snow into them to keep them more secure.
That's when the real fun started.
Although my friend tried to work out a mutually beneficial agreement with the owner of the neighboring property, said owner is a bit of a douche canoe and he was unwilling to work with @a4xjeeper to reach a resolution. In fact, he took things one step further by hiring a company to unknowingly remove the barriers that were placed there by my friend.
As my friend watched a truck load the barricades that he had paid for an haul them off, he dialed up the police. The officers caught up with the contractor somewhere down the road who explained he had been hired by the owner of the other business to remove the barricades.
Last I knew charges are being filed against the other owner for theft, a couple other things, and even possibly organized crime because he commissioned the other contractor to unknowingly commit a crime. It's pretty juicy.
So now my friend is looking at putting in a landscaping barrier to permanently block off that access. Apparently due to how much of an asshat this other guy is, the city is more than willing to work with my buddy just to spite the other guy. Pretty funny right?
Meanwhile, work continues on the building. They took the temporary wall down the other day.
Anchor bolts were put in place and the steel beams were delivered to create the support and framing for the rolling doors. When we met last weekend he was expecting that by the end of this week the doors would be in place. I haven't heard from him yet (besides these photos) to see if that actually happened.
I'm going to to really happy when all of this is finally complete and he is able to just move forward with operating his business. I know that all of these city council meetings and delays with construction have been stressful on him. I am sure he just wants to get back to some kind of normal. I also look forward to seeing what the building looks like when he has it all completed.
Meanwhile, dinner was pretty amazing. We went to a local place called The Wheelhouse. It's connected to a roller skating rink and though it kind of looks like a dump, they serve pretty good food at a decent price as you can see in the photos above.
I got the burger you see in the opening photo and @mrsbozz got the club sandwich pictured above.
I've gotta say, I am getting pretty dang good at taking food pictures. @kommienezuspadt better watch out! :)
I was surprised that my wife picked waffle fries for her side item as she usually leans towards onion rings. Due to that fact, I ended up getting the onion rings so that she could sneak one or two for herself. As expected, she graciously offered me a couple of waffle fries in return.
In all, it was a really great Friday evening with some good food and great conversation. @mrsbozz and I have a pretty small circle of friends, so social occasions like this outside of our immediate families is a rare treasure.
As in the past, I will be adding @a4xjeeper as a beneficiary to this post as he took the site photos of the building.
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