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Monday, August 30, 2010

This Week at ADB, Inc., 22-28 August 2010

Steve Cole reports:

The weather this week was cooler than usual for this time of year (60s in the morning). We had some rain on Tuesday to cool things down. The Spam Storm stayed fairly calm, running 235-376 per day. We had the phone lines go bad due to water leaks, but AT&T came and fixed them. The shrinkwrap machine finally had a problem we couldn't fix, and we paid several hundred dollars to have all of the wiring replaced.

Steve Cole's week was dominated by PD FEDERATION, which was finished and started printing Friday afternoon. This was a long process (Monday = Petrick's fixes. Tuesday = Dale's art, weapons page. Wednesday = Ted's planets. Thursday = clone the file, get Jean's last reports. Friday = build the PDF. Saturday = do the FLAP list.) SVC did a few other things, such as work on the Wall of Honor, an ad to go into GGIC, the final step of the complex Apple contract, and some email. Steve is pretty much in a state of nervous exhaustion and has been seen spending time on the sofa.

Jean, no surprise, stayed busy all week on PD FEDS, mostly doing final checks and corrections.

Steve Petrick continued progress on Module Y3, despite being dragooned into reading the entire PD FED book (which he had never seen) from cover to cover to find anything that nobody else did).

Leanna and Mike continued doing orders. Joel continued updating the website, and getting art done for PD FEDS. Leanna did order that an economics memo be worked up for expansions to the SFBF card game, the first time in years that she's shown a willingness to spend that much money on cards.