The weekly DIY column

Working for a small family company is a completely different experience compared to working for a multinational. The key difference being that you get to learn number of new things for which in multinationals there are special departments in India or Poland or 'the other building somewhere across the town'.

So, in the past weeks I have learned the following:
Not all modems are wireless by default.
Printers have cartridges that have to be replaced once-in-a-while. I also learned that you can send the old cartridge back to HP and then learned by calling HP that in Italy this system is not in place yet.
Transport documents are a whole different world. In fact, a kind of underworld. With their own language and rules.
Ricevuta bancaria is quite a clever thing to avoid fraudulent customers.
Wine can be delivered overnight to some thousands of kilometres away but this will come at the cost of 2 nights' stay in a 5 star hotel or a medium-size Ferragamo bag

The last but not least - humanity still uses fax machines! Jesus.... I've SO grown to despise this Olivetti monstrum together with its error messages and the useless user manual!

In the meantime, fax machines aside, we are experiencing huge progress here in the winery. The roof is being completed, slowly but surely. The roof is already 7 months past the deadline, so observing the progress is kind of like watching the seasons pass...
Yesterday we had a very important milestone - the Lavazza coffee machine arrived. The roof-builders were especially happy with the coffee machine, so hopefully now that they have constant supply of coffee, they'll come to work more often.
Where there was a hole in the entrance is now a kind of iron cover, so no more risk of someone falling inside the hole.
And since last week the bathrooms have the windows. Quite nice achievement, especially in cold weather as it is these days.
Today I made order for the doors, so by the end of the month we should have the doors for the office and the bathrooms. By the way, who would have thought there are so many different kinds of door handles to choose from? Casting the door handles took me ages this morning...

That's it for now. Thank you for the attention. Oh, and please send us emails instead of faxes.