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Monday, July 18, 2011

This Week at ADB, Inc., 10-16 July 2011

Steve Cole reports:

This was a calm week for the design team (who settled in to work on the fall schedule), and a busy week for the production team (who dealt with huge orders all week).

The weather this week was hot, passing 100F many days.

The spam storm remained below 100 per day as the filters and firewalls held.

New on e23 this week was Captain's Log #10. Facebook climbed to 888 friends.

Steve Cole began the week by taking Sunday off to stay home and do work around the house, a promise he had made to Leanna. Then, he finished up the last part of putting the Origins stuff away, got Communique #67 and Hailing Frequencies July 2011 finished, finished the Captain's Log #43 Supplemental File, did the version of Starship Aldo for upload to e23, wrote product descriptions for e23, did all of the CL#43 updates for the Wall of Honor, reviewed some fiction, answered a bunch of pending Email, updated the Origins navigation log, read part of ACTASF, updated the Captain's Log Index, and read Jay W's train game (Merchants of the Federation, which seems pretty cool).

Steven Petrick worked on Captain's Log #44 stuff (battle groups and the monster article)

Leanna dealt with huge orders going out and tried to keep the accounting sort of up to date.

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

Joel did website updates, chased pirates, uploaded Communique #67, sent Hailing Frequencies for July 2011, and helped Mike ship orders. He was hampered by continuing problem with the SuperPC he uses, which needs major work.

Jean managed our page on Facebook, proofread Communique and Hailing Frequencies, worked on Traveller, and did some marketing.