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Monday, June 06, 2011

This Week at ADB, Inc., 29 May - 4 June 2011

Steve Cole reports:

This was the week we finished Captain's Log #43 and did no end of small tasks to clear the path for the final two-week push to Origins (which began on 6 June, D-Day, appropriately).

The weather this week was increasingly hot (over 100F a few times), and teasing reports that it was about to rain never bore fruit.

The spam storm remained calm, below 100 per day.

New uploads to e23 included SFB Module C3A and SFB Module P6. Sales for May set a new all-time record for a single month on e23.

Steve Cole finished "primary work" on Captain's Log #43 on Monday night, as all 120 pages had gone to Jean. He then began "small jobs week" which included: Star Fleet Alert, his part of the Captain's Log #43 and Starmada Distant Armada covers done, the GURPS Federation ad for GGIC, got press quotes for color printing, worked up the final components list for ISC War so the price could be set ($47.95 including six countersheets), resolved the crisis on FC rule 1E4, got Jean's phone reports on CL#43, fixed the final staff reports on CL#43, laid out the pages for Distant Armada, finished the next-to-last draft of the mysterious U contract, and wrote some blogs.

Steven Petrick proofread all of CL#43, then spent the week clearing his backlog of things not done while working on it and getting as much done as possible for Origins. This included helping Leanna get Captain's Log #17 back in print on the shopping cart.

Origins preparations began. GAMA confirmed all ten of our GM badges, but then we had to replace the suddenly ill Gary Plana at the Prime Directive table with Jeff Johnson.

Leanna kept orders and accounting up to date.

Mike kept orders going out, rebuilt the inventory, and managed customer service.

Joel did website updates, smote pirates, and did the covers for CL#43 and Distant Armada.

Jean spent most of the week on final proofreading of CL#43, but she also worked on the GGIC ad and the Star Fleet Alert as well as managed our page on Facebook.