What We're Doing: 4-11 October 2009

Steve Cole reports:

The weather is starting to turn cold, although we haven't had a freeze yet.

We're heading for the 19 October release date for Hydran Attack, the fighter miniatures, Klingons PD20M, and the three booster packs. We got the covers and ship cards sent to press (and expect them about the 14th) and we received the shipment of counters from the new die cutter. (They are gorgeous, and while we have only been through a few hundred, we have yet to find a mis-cut sheet.)

       
Just today (the 12th) we rewrote the fall schedule, sending F&E 2010, Federation Admiral, and Briefing #3 to next year, and moving Captain's Log up from 7 December to 16 November. I just hope we can find a fiction story or that plan is going to self-destruct.
    
We tried to get the new minis to the casting house, but everything went wrong (in a minor way). The Juggy arrived, but the Fed DD engine did not. The F5W arrived, but had to be sent back to have missing phasers added. The sculptor doing the Hydran Pegasus did not do it, so that delays Squadron Box #27 into next year.
 
Eric created a new page for the old Subspace News stuff, a new page for the Mail Order Bonus stuff, and loaded all of the issues for both. He also added more issues to the Starletter page. Between Eric and myself, we got the 10 October Communique released a day early.
   
Leanna got the first PDF we have ever sold loaded into e23. This is the old Module Prime Alpha, which we did as a test of the system to create and upload PDFs. Leanna reported that orders this week have been unusually high.

Steve Petrick has kept busy on Captain's Log #40.
      
Mike Sparks has been packing fighter miniatures and had to shuffle pallets in the warehouse to make space for the new incoming shipments of covers, cards, and counters.
      
 Jean has been recovering from her surgery and reported on the 12th that it was not cancer.
     
I had my best target shooting ever. On the other hand, on Wednesday I tripped over a curb, fell very hard, and cracked two ribs. This kept me from getting any serious work done on Thursday, Friday, Saturday (I went home early when nobody else showed up for work), and Sunday (I just stayed home and painted my new Space Marine figures). I felt somewhat better on Monday, the 12th.