COLD AND WET IN AMARILLO

Friday the 13th, and it's raining in Amarillo. It's also cold, not freezing, but still cold enough nobody wants to be outside.

We are finishing the Omega Master Rulebook today. We've been finishing it for two weeks, but there is always some glitch or gripe or fix that has to be done. Anyway, we're done. It's all assembled in one nice 334-page PDF to send to the print engines down the hall. Of course, Vanessa threatens us with bodily harm if we start printing before she leaves. (The print engines are pretty noisy.) We'll print one copy today, page through it over night, and make the last fixes in the morning, then print all weekend. It takes about ten minutes to print one book (on one machine, we have three) and each machine can only print about 35 copies per day. With any luck we'll have enough monday morning to do the monday orders, and then play catch up all week. Orders are heavier than expected.

May will be a great month. We've got a great start on Captain's Log #35 and of course FC: Academy is done except for printing the cover, which takes Matt an hour or two and the printer a week.

Petrick is almost done with SFB Module R11, and I'm all but done with FC: Battleships Attack, so June and July look good too.