Big Electrical Day!

8:30 am, 0830 French time.  The electrician called.  A trip to Brico Depot in Bourges is in order in 10 minutes.  Much rushing around, getting dressed, finding wallet, money, checkbook incase some damned plastic credit card doesn't scan or they don't have the friggin' scanners anymore (has happened!).  Then we follow our intrepid guy through the forests and wheat and colza fields for the next 40 minutes or so.  Then into the maze that makes up La Charite with all the big boxes, medium boxes and small boxes you can imagine...the architecture of supply and demand.  What a visual mess!  It's there somewhere, whatever it is and you can almost always buy it.  Stores open about 9am but 10am ce normale' too.  Close at 12 or 12:30pm and reopen at 2:30 or 3 or, in some cases 3:30.  This all depends on Holidays, special days set aside by the local cities and the mindset of a zillion different organizations and corporate bean-tank members.  We fly into the Brico Marche with E taking up a parking place near the rack of rolling carts and I take an adjacent one.  He gets a cart and away into the giant store of hardware bits and pieces we go!  Oh what an adventure awaits.  Down the electrical apparatus aisle, he picks out wire bundles of some familiar colors and others odd to my US standards, but hey! he KNOWS what he is doing and I am but a novice.  Switches, circuit breakers, circuit breaker panels, connectors, fasteners, long fixtures for placing wire on walls and overhead, 25 of those and that's just 1/2.  Each is 3 meters long...10 feet more or less.  500+ feet of all the wires, some "romex" type stuff too with multiple conductors.  Piled on the cart in about 1/2 an hour we go to the cashier with it and after all is said and done it's about 600 Euros, about $840 USD.  That's under what I thought it's be but this is ONLY the 2 upper floors one (the grenier...attic) which gets only 4 outlets and a switch.  Out the door in under an hour and back on the road to Lignieres...there's much work to be done and some of it is/will be done today!