This Week at ADB, Inc., 6-12 June 2010
Steve Cole reports:
The weather was hot all week, over 80F most days. A few clouds on Wednesday morning gave us a little break. The Spam Storm has relented to some extent, averaging 700 per day instead of the 4,000 per day of this spring.
Being so close to the Origins Game Fair, the workload is intense and a lot of routine daily stuff is getting shoved aside, and a few trouble makers on the BBS and Forum are given short shrift.
I got the FC: War & Peace cards to the printer on Wednesday and the covers for W&P and SFB R12 to press on Thursday. Bruce got the molds for the new ships done by Friday and is spinning them up. The counters shipped on Thursday, so we have all of the parts for many new products for Origins release done except for the rulebooks, which are still being worked on. Steven Petrick has it harder, with more pages to do. By Saturday, Steven Petrick had over 150 of his 162 pages done while Steve Cole had only half of his 24 pages done.
Leanna and Mike have been very busy getting the Captain's Log #41 shipments to the wholesalers and the mail order shipments ready for next week. Joel worked with Steve Cole on the covers and did a bunch of the website updates that CL#41 causes. Joel also got Hailing Frequencies out on Thursday, and Steve Cole got Communique finished on Thursday as well. We did work up and post the starting outline of the fall schedule (Y3 in September, SFMA in October, CL#42 in November). Steve Cole spent hours on Friday sorting through miscut F&E counters to make grab bags, which are always a popular seller at Origins.
We're all hanging in there, trying to keep the routine stuff down to a low roar. As this was prepared on Sunday afternoon, it was 8 days and an hour to departure time, and there was a lot remaining to do, but the organization and procedures developed over the past decade should make it doable.
The weather was hot all week, over 80F most days. A few clouds on Wednesday morning gave us a little break. The Spam Storm has relented to some extent, averaging 700 per day instead of the 4,000 per day of this spring.
Being so close to the Origins Game Fair, the workload is intense and a lot of routine daily stuff is getting shoved aside, and a few trouble makers on the BBS and Forum are given short shrift.
I got the FC: War & Peace cards to the printer on Wednesday and the covers for W&P and SFB R12 to press on Thursday. Bruce got the molds for the new ships done by Friday and is spinning them up. The counters shipped on Thursday, so we have all of the parts for many new products for Origins release done except for the rulebooks, which are still being worked on. Steven Petrick has it harder, with more pages to do. By Saturday, Steven Petrick had over 150 of his 162 pages done while Steve Cole had only half of his 24 pages done.
Leanna and Mike have been very busy getting the Captain's Log #41 shipments to the wholesalers and the mail order shipments ready for next week. Joel worked with Steve Cole on the covers and did a bunch of the website updates that CL#41 causes. Joel also got Hailing Frequencies out on Thursday, and Steve Cole got Communique finished on Thursday as well. We did work up and post the starting outline of the fall schedule (Y3 in September, SFMA in October, CL#42 in November). Steve Cole spent hours on Friday sorting through miscut F&E counters to make grab bags, which are always a popular seller at Origins.
We're all hanging in there, trying to keep the routine stuff down to a low roar. As this was prepared on Sunday afternoon, it was 8 days and an hour to departure time, and there was a lot remaining to do, but the organization and procedures developed over the past decade should make it doable.
posted by Federation Commander at 6:21 AM
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