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Monday, January 17, 2011

This Week at ADB, Inc., 9-15 January 2011

Steve Cole reports:

This was the week that work got started for the new year's schedule. Steven Petrick was busy on C3A and the new version of SFB Basic Set, while Steve Cole worked on updating the FC Reference Rulebook.

The weather this week was very cold in the mornings, but warm enough to walk around the block in shirt sleeves by the afternoon of the last few days of the week. Wednesday, there was a lot of blood splattered on the sidewalk from a 2am bar fight that started next door. Three people were hurt, none of them from ADB. (No one works that late so we never have issues with the bar next door.) On the same day, someone tried to break into Jean's house. Coincidence?

The spam storm continued, reaching 1698 on Wednesday.

We did not get anything new uploaded to e23 and that was a failure we should have avoided.

Steve Cole almost finished the end of year updates for the Wall of Honor, finished editing the Alien World Survival game, updated his book on the game industry so it can be uploaded to e23, updated the list of retail stores, and did a flurry of customer requests. He also did his weekly "touch bases with outside contractors" but really should have gotten some marketing done and did not.

Leanna kept orders up to date and got the year-end accounting and royalty statements done.

Mike kept orders going out and rebuilt the inventory.

Joel did website updates, got Communique #61 uploaded, and got Hailing Frequencies sent out.

Jean is back in North Carolina, proofreading things, finishing the last template (Marshals) for GURPS Federation, and being Webmom on the BBS and Facebook, which is up to 625 friends.