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Wednesday, January 04, 2012

This Week at ADB, Inc., 25-31 December 2011

Steve Cole reports:

This was Jean Week, when we have her delightful company and hard work all week. Christmas was a time for family, but we did spend a few hours in the office just getting Jean organized for the next week and clearing spam out of the email files. The weather this week was cold at first (starting with a white Christmas) but warmed by the end of the week. The spam storm mostly remained at just well 200 per day.

There was nothing new on e23 this week because SJG was closed for the holidays.

Steve Cole spent the week thinking about and organizing for the future. The company needs to change, and to limit the time spent on fun but secondary things that relatively few people want. (Why do FC eCard packs that few buy when work needs done on Marines, Fed Admiral, and PD Tholians?) He did some actual work, including a one-page Captain's Log #45 story about Ketrick's cat, another one-page story, 10 pages of Project E, the annual report, the look-ahead blog, a new Andro ship card for Communique #73, reviewed the first draft of ACTASF2 Battleships, read the Traveller rulebook, and resolved a problem when a freight shipment included nine boxes of another company's dice.

Steven Petrick worked on Captain's Log #45, doing the SSDs, campaign update, and starting on the monster article. He also finished the reports on the R3 SSD book update so that can go to e23 next week.

Leanna kept orders and accounting up to date.

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

Joel is with his family in Africa, but Charles Diaz came in two afternoons to handle critical functions.

Jean worked almost entirely on PD20M Romulans, but she also tested new games, did marketing and customer support,

Steve Cole, Steven Petrick, Jean Sexton, and (for the first time ever) Leanna Cole appeared on TalkShoe on Thursday night. The program lasted over two hours.