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Monday, October 24, 2011

This Week at ADB, Inc., 16-22 October 2011

Steve Cole reports:

This was the last week of getting the Mongoose 2500 starships finished, and was very intense for the Steves, but all of them got done. The weather this week was nice, with cool mornings and warm afternoons. The spam storm mostly remained at about 200 per day. Our new high school intern was unable to start due to illness.

New on e23 this week: Well, nothing, but we did get the newest versions of the Sequence of Play for SFB and F&E uploaded to our own website as free downloads.

Steve Cole worked mostly on Mongoose stuff, checking ships and rules. He found time for only a few other projects, including new background material for the Kzintis, Gorns, and Orions (which goes into the ACTASF1 rulebook and later into our own products); helped a retailer get access to products that the wholesalers did not stock; and wrote the THIS WEEK blog.

Steven Petrick worked on the Borak and Captain's Log #44, updated more SSDs for the Basic Set SSD book, and of course helped with the approvals of the Mongoose ships.

Leanna kept orders and accounting up to date, finishing all of the royalty statements.

Stephen and Leanna left Friday for the annual trip to the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary fundraiser, where Chef Steve provided hundreds of pounds of beef heart, liver, and kidneys to 53 wolves, one fox, and five New Guinea Singing Dogs.

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

Mike and Joel reorganized the stock room, using new shelving to replace old plywood decking and get a lot of stuff sorted out, stored, thrown away, or put in better locations.

Joel did website updates (all those new ships on the 2500 page), chased pirates, and helped Mike.

Jean managed our page on Facebook (which is up to 983 friends), proofread the new background pages, and did some marketing.