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Monday, September 26, 2011

This Week at ADB, Inc., 18-24 September 2011

Steve Cole reports:

This was a normal week, as the Steves worked on new products and the production team printed more books and shipped orders. The weather this week was much nicer, even dropping into the 50Fs for part of one day and the 60Fs most mornings; it rarely exceeded 80F. The spam storm mostly remained below 200 per day.

Nothing new appeared on e23 this week but Steve Cole did finish LDR Ship Pack #1 and it will be released next week.

Steve Cole's week was dominated by working on Mongoose projects, checking new ships, product packaging, and their rules. Lots of new ships showed up this week, and a lot of work was done on ships Sandrine started earlier (Klingon C8, F5, D7; Fed CC, NCA, NCL, DW, CF; Rom SPH, Snipe). We saw the first scale-test images for the Condor, SkyHawk, and BattleHawk. Steve also wrote the Klingon background for the Mongoose rulebook, but has yet to do the background for the other empires. Steve was very pleased that when Mongoose went home for the weekend he got to do four pages of Fed Admiral, all of Communique #70, wrote four reserve blogs for Jean, and he did another hour of work on a customer request project that will take several hours to accomplish.

Steven Petrick worked mostly on the Borak, getting their SSDs fixed and ready for publication. This is very tedious and frustrating for him. The files are unstable because Jeremy Gray did them in a program we don't use on a computer we don't use, and translating them into MAC files was, well, less than clean. The result is that there are a zillion little invisible land mines in the files, and if Steven bumps into one while fixing things (like turning A HULL into R HULL), it crashes (and destroys) the file and he loses all of the work he did on it. (One of the landmines causes it to, randomly, announce "out of memory, cannot undo." He closes the file without saving but the file is just a sheet of static-pixels when he re-opens it. Steven Petrick also spent an hour or more per day checking Mongoose ships, answered rules questions, kept an eye on the two online tournaments, and other things.

Leanna kept orders and accounting up to date.

Mike kept orders going out, rebuilt the inventory, and managed customer service. Mike is more productive now because he can run the cutter himself, and having Mike do the mail run gives Steven Petrick an extra half hour per day.

Joel did website updates, chased pirates, and helped Mike.

Jean managed our page on Facebook, proofread a few pages, and did some marketing.

The new shipment of F&E boxes arrived so that game is back in stock. They are identical to the previous boxes.