over six months ago. We did get the contracts done for VBAM, MY DAY ARCHIVE 2009 Silent Death, and Starmada, waiting now for signed copies. COPYRIGHT © 2009 ADB INC. Nothing got done on Hydran Attack, War & Peace, or Briefing #2 ======or G3, or MSSB, or ISC war, or SITs, or F&E Q&A. We did not get Klingons D20M from JT, but we did about half of PDFEds. MY DAY: 1 January (New Year’s Day) 2009 We made some progress on RPGs, that being: Threw up at 6am, but kept down some toast at 10am and a malt Savage worlds, memo approved, contract issued. at 3pm. Stayed home. D6, memo approved, contract issued. ======True 20, the guy doesn't answer Email. Fudge, waiting for memo. MY DAY: 2 January (day) 2009 Mongoose-Traveller, waiting for memo. Got here at 10am. Feeling pretty rocky, but no vomit. Petrick is Hero, on hold for new edition in August. here but coughing constantly; he went home a couple of hours No progress was made on minis but we did order another big later. Jean says she is good enough to come to work. Met Jean load from Bruce. Nothing got done on CL#39. at the stockyards, where you can buy a cow or two while eating that gives me a whopping 26% success rate, but getting those lunch. I had porkchops as I did not want to accidentally end up contracts out and half of Federation done is a big deal. owning a cow. Spent an hour getting the deal done to put ======Galactic Conquest into store sales. Finalized the draft contracts for Starmada, Silent Death, and VBAM and send them out. MY DAY: 5 January (Moansday) 2009 (Waiting now to see if they have any issues, or want me to mail Jean called in at 7:40am to say that the bus was late getting to them hard copies for signature). Reviewed RPG project memos Atlanta and she would be standing up waiting for another bus for and sent contracts to the three guys who actually did one. It was five or six hours and then get home at 9pm. She was unhappy. fun to watch PHD dinosaur scientists have an oh so polite Got here at 10am. Note from Siadek brothers about Star Fleet flamewar. BBS had some guy named Eric throwing a snit Battlestations. A new bird ancestor on dinolist. Mike Curtis sent because I wouldn’t change company policy to let him do more F&E Q&A stuff and we agreed to have Michael Lui shot. whatever he wants. No Starlist requests on file. The Forum had a Ryan Opel updated the F&E OB again. One of the PD writers lot of posts in the three days I missed. Three days of APOD were wants me to hire his friend the artist who isn’t that good. Matt all boring. Sudoku time 2:54! Second best time ever. Finished the Alleman says he will have five Omega cruiser mini sculptures web crawl at 9:14pm while Jean continued to edit PDFeds. Nice finished in two weeks. Lots of other Email, very heavy even for a phone call from Steve Jackson about the fun of buying an office Monday, but I just noted the high points. No phone call from Jean building. Shut down at 10pm and took Jean back to her hotel. to say if she got a bus out of Atlanta at noon or not. Very worried Update, Just before we left we heard that Plasmaboy (Mark about her, as her cell does not answer. BBS and Forum are quiet Thomas, son of staffer Tony Thomas) was stranded at the and productive. I caught up on posting the day blog and posted Amarillo bus station. We drove over there, took him cookies and the stacks report. Eric and I looked at how to “frame” the Savage some SFB Books to read, and checked on him. Worlds art for the covers of those books. Jean checked in and is ======ok. Discussed distribution with Iron Crown. Talked to another real estate agent about another building. APOD is a meteor trail on a MY DAY: 3 January (Shatterday) 2009 dark photo. Big whup. Today’s Sudoku time is 3:21. Never did Got here at 10:30am after checking Jean out of her hotel and finish the web crawl. Long talk with Jay at VBAM about how to buying her breakfast at Waffle House. The guys who got finish his book. Went home at 7pm. contracts for RPGs and other games seem happy. Dino scientists ======are arguing over the differences between Muzquizopteryx and Nyctosaurus. The BBS is quietly productive. There were no MY DAY: 6 January (Twosday) 2009 Starlist requests. Spent the day working with Jean on PDFeds, Got here at 9:30am. Discussed with JT doing PD20K and PD20R and with Jean and Petrick on VBAM, and Star Fleet new editions. Dinosaur artists were arguing that they should be Battlestations, then we played Munchkin until Midnight. paid more for re-use of old art to force publishers to buy new art. ======Went through a lot of industry mailing lists about the Google out of print fiasco, the new D6 open license, and other matters. MY DAY: 4 January (Soonday) 2009 Updated the capitalization list for Jean. BBS is quietly productive. The day began at midnight as Petrick, Jean, and I played Forum is quiet. Nice lunch at bowling alley. Did some work on Munchkin while waiting for time to take her to the bus. We finally various things, but nothing productive. Spent the afternoon went (early) to find out that the bus was (you guessed it) late. looking at alternate buildings and found one that works. Went Finally got Jean on a bus at 6am, at which point Petrick and I home at 8pm. went to Waffle House since I had not had food in 14 hours ======(neither had Jean, who didn’t get any more until 9pm that night), then Petrick and I went to our respective homes and beds. Later MY DAY: 7 January (Woundsday) 2009 in the day, I recall going with Leanna to look at a building we Got here at 9:35am. Sent Realtor #1 a note that we are not going might buy, but the day was something of a fog. I never did go to to buy the moldy building previously seen on our website. the office. Industry mailing lists continue to discuss Google and copyright ======law. Talked to insurance company about new building. BBS and Forum and quietly productive. APOD has a picture of the galactic STACKS REPORT: 29 Dec 08 trhough 4 January 09. core. Sudoku 3:25, not bad, but not my best. Web crawl finished I did not get much done, due to taking Sunday off to show Jean at 10:57am. Spent the day canceling the contract for the Acton tourist stuff, taking Monday to talk to the building inspector, and Building and signing the contract for the 10th Street Building. then taking Wednesday and Thursday off to celebrate the food Went home at 8pm. poisoning festival of hurls. I did no Star Fleet Alerts. I got nothing ======done on Communique or the January newsletter. Leanna got nothing done on reprinting Captain's Logs. Nothing on the MY DAY: 8 January (Thistday) 2009 website got updated. No FYEOs got read and the only progress Got here at 9am. Leanna and I came in one car because she on the new building pretty much derailed the entire operation on wants to work late (to catch up on mail orders and year-end buying a new building. We did review the new SFBS draft, but it accounting) and cannot drive home after dark. Dinosaurs of the was frankly no different from the one we sent back marked all Morisson formation in the US are identical to dinosaurs in Portugal. Further proof found that Pterosaurs used all four feet to Sent Eric two more batches of shopping cart updates and fixes. jump into the air for take-off. Sent Eric a ton of Howard Answered questions from Todd Boyce on Hydran and Romulan Bampton’s suggestions for shoping cart improvements. BBS and fighter minis. Sent Eric some of the painting guides that Shawn H Forum seem quietly humming along. APOD has a very nice sent me. Got call from realtor that we probably won’t close on the nebula. Sudoko 3:12, better than yesterday. Ann Coulter’s building until tomorrow since they have to get a letter from the column today was a special delight. Web crawl completed at bank that hold’s the seller’s mortgage; the title company will then 10:32am. Old In Box pushed back two weeks to 8 July 06 and know how much money to deduct from our check and send to down to 1162 Emails. Tactics messages from 2007 deleted: 40 that bank. Downloaded the FYEO files to date. Read FYEO for tactics, 96 Fleet, 43 early years, 59 Attrition, 54 battle reports. 19 and 20 and 21 October. (I decided not to post any more of this That finishes the 2007 deletions. I will do the upload tomorrow three-month old stuff; I’ll wait until I catch up.) Did an excel which finishes the tactics archive project. I can then go find document listing the FC scenarios done so far so I could tell something else to delete. Nice lunch at Furr’s cafeteria (turkey!). which ones in file had already been used. Did a scenario for The guys with the building sent a counter-offer, so the fun begins, Communique #37, then discovered (via the new excel document) We sent them a verbal counter-counter, and our realtor said their that I had previously done that scenario, so I did another one and realtor said they already said they’d take that price, so we’re gave the whole issue to Steve Petrick to read. Went home at waiting (1:30) for them to get out of a meeting (2:30) and sign the 9pm. contract. I got the current outbox down to 98 and had to move on ======to real work. Did “name a starship for your lady” certificate #85. Leanna did not want to put CapLog SSD buttons on every MY DAY: 13 January (Tuesday) 2009 Caplog so I told Eric to add a line of text about them. Starlist for Got here at 9:14am. It’s the 10th anniversary of ADB, Inc. New K2C1N5. Read FYEO for 18 Oct. Went out and grabbed a burger dino: Ceratonykus oculatus. And another; Malarguesaurus for supper. Got the call at 7pm that the contract was signed. florenciae. Todd Boyce sent in a 3d model of a Romulan fighter. Called the building inspector who will be there at 10am tomorrow. BBS is fine. Forum is busy. APOD is another stupid skyline. Finally went home at 9pm. Guys, that is NOT astronomy! Sudoku 3:38, not good. Web crawl ======finished at 9:43am. Starlist request from 57732. Old in box pushed back to 29 April 06 and down to 1068 posts; I can see MY DAY: 9 January (Fried-day) 2009 2005 at the top of the window. Out Box is down to 94. Deleted Got here at 9am. Met building inspector at the new building on 100 old posts from Current ADB news (2006). Sent Eric more 10th street at 10am. He found no issues. Talked to the guys we cart fixes (the last that Howard Bampton has sent to me so far) are buying it from and found no problems. Spent the rest of the and some of Shawn H’s painting guides. Reviewed a proposal for day making phone calls and plans about the move. Went home a new class of “gun ship” light frigates. Went to the Title at 9pm. Leanna and I talked about the building until 2am. Company and signed the paperwork to own The Cole Building. ======Read FYEO for 22 Oct. Posted photos of the building and made a bunch of plans and phone calls about the new building. Got the MY DAY: 10 January (Shatterday) 2009 phone call at 4:40 that we now officially own the building. Went Got here at 10am. Did a little Email and checked the BBS. Lunch home (too sick to work any more) at 4:45pm. was an excellent meal of in-thick pork chops broiled like steaks. ======Went over to the building and reviewed what fixes we will need (ripping out carpet and putting in tile). Sudoku 3:01. Finished web MY DAY: 14 January (Wednesday) 2009 crawl at 2:41. Dinosaur list discussing Emus. BBS and Forum ok. Got here at 10:10am. Very sick for the third day. Seems to be Sent 2007 tactics archive to Eric for uploading. Feeling unwell some kind of cold or other crud. Leanna has a little of it, and and accomplishing nothing of merit, I went home at 4:30 to rest Petrick has it pretty bad. (My nose is clogged shut with goop, for the weekend. which is draining down my throat. The birth defect in my throat is ======causing me to “choke” three or four times per hour, sending me into violent coughing spasms and blind “I cannot breathe” panic MY DAY: 11 January (Son’s Day) 2009 attacks. Due to this, I’m getting maybe two hours of sleep per Got here at 1:26pm. Not much in Email. BBS is fine. The Forum night.) New ankylosaurid: Minotaurasaurus ramachandrani. BBS is fine. Had a two-hour meeting (that lasted four hours) with some and Forum are running smoothly. Star clusters on APOD. local business people who have a non-game publishing idea Sudoku time was an abyssal 3:44. Web Crawl completed at worth considering. APOD has gorgeous photo of Saturn eclipsing 10:56am. 67 old posts deleted from Current ADB News (2006) the sun. Sudoku 3:21. Web crawl complete at 6:03. Dinosaur list and compiled into a supplemental weblog post. Starlist request discussed (hillariously) how to keep dinosaurs as pets. Old in-box from 95128. Old in box is back to 27 April 06 and there are 1045 is back to 12 May 06 and down to 1127 messages. New out box messages left. Out box is down to 83. Sent Howard Bampton’s is at 122. New in box is at 184. latest cart fixes to Eric. Photos of Omega minis look good but too ======small and dark for me to see much. Read FYEO for 23+24+25 STACKS REPORT: 5-11 Jan 2009 Oct. Went home about 5:20 as I felt exhausted from coughing. ======Just about the only thing that got done for the whole week was to buy an office building for the company. That was the priority as MY DAY: 15 January (Thursday) 2009 we have to move out of the current office by 31 Jan 09. Got here at 9:15am. Still sick with a stuffy nose, drainage, and ======coughing (choking) incidents every few minutes. I got only two MY DAY: 12 January (Monday) 2009 hours sleep last night. Dinosaur list notes two new tyrannosauroids with inconclusive data published so far, and they Got here at 9:43am. Told an online retailer that NO he cannot turned out to be the same critter. Forum and BBS are running steal our shopping cart photos. BBS is running fine. Forum is smoothly. Met electrician at new building to discuss installing fine. APOD has some stupid skyline picture of ice crystals 220v circuits and security lights. Sudoku was 3:08, not bad for reflecting light, which is just not astronomy. Sudoku was 3;40, a being sick. Good lunch that I barely remember. Finished very bad time due to Leanna interrupting me. Went to meet tile webcrawl after lunch. No starlist requests. Old in box is back to people at new building to get quote on replacing floors. 23 April 06 and down to 1031. Out box holding at 83. Deleted Uninspired lunch at Dairy Queen. Web crawl finished at 12:02pm. 108 messages from 2007 current ADB news; compiled into two Starlist 60526. Old in box pushed back to 11 May 06 and down to archive posts. Didn’t do much in the afternoon because I hadn’t 1092 items. Out box down to 95. Deleted 100 old “ADB current had any sleep, so I went home at 3:30 and went to bed. news” posts (replaced by one compiled post, net reduction 99). ======arranging for the building move. Rented a small warehouse for a year until we know what space we need and the best way to get MY DAY: 16 January (Friday) 2009 it (buy a building, buy conex boxes, build a barn). Went home at Got here at 9:20am. I got six hours of sleep last night, but was 9pm. too shaky to drive. Not much email. FEAR sent another file of ======Q&A. Some of the FC staff sent in Comm37 reports. BBS and Forum are running ok. Anne Coulter’s column was very good, MY DAY: 20 January (Inauguration Day) 2009 noting that while the NY Times delights in reporting returning Got here at 9:15am. No email other than a CC of Jean’s attempt veterans who go crazy and kill people, returning veterans are to contact somebody. Nothing much on dino list. BBs is running actually about 1/4 as likely to kill somebody as an adult male 18- fine; Joe Stevenson is behaving in weather. Forum is mostly 24 who never spent any time in the military. APOD is a grainy discussing minis. APOD has a 360° view of Mars from Spirit’s telescope photo of the ISS. Whoopie. Sudoku time 3:25. Web fifth anniversary album. Sudoku 3:12, pretty good! Web crawl crawl finished at 10:20am. No starlist requests. Old in box back completed 9:48am. No Starlist requests. Pushed old in box back to 22 April 06 (gained one day) and down to 1013 (down 18). Out three days to 21 Feb 06 and down to 951 messages. Out box still box down to 78. Deleted 175 old (2007) Current ADB News at 82. Deleted 47 old posts from current ADB news. Deleted 32 posts, posted one summary. Read FYEO for 26-27-28 Oct. Got weblog posts from 2004 and created an archive document, which Communique 37 finished and sent it to Eric to upload. Answered I sent to Eric to upload. Nice lunch at bowling alley. Went to a few of the emails that were stacking up. Got sick in afternoon Taylor warehouse to get doors unlocked. Went to Budget and and went to lay down for a while. To woozy to do any real work rented a 16-foot truck to start moving stuff. Finished FYEO for 31 on new products. Spent some time on the building and the plan October and for 1-2-3-4 November. (Between truck trips, it’s to move to the building. Eric finished the January newsletter, and about the only thing I can start and stop easily.) Picked up the I sent him four fixes-changes. Petrick reviewed it (no time for the truck sometime around 1pm. First trip completed at 3pm. Second ailing Jean to do so) and (after fixing a lot of stuff) Eric released it trip complete at 5pm. Third trip complete at 6:30pm. Petrick and at 6:43pm. We all went home at 7pm. Mike stayed to load the truck so we can make two more runs ======before we have to return it tomorrow but I finally went home at 8pm because I had to eat. MY DAY: 17 January (Saturday) 2009 ======Got here at 10am. I got adequate sleep without the choking attacks of last night. Leanna is feeling worse and took the day off. MY DAY: 21 January (Wednesday) 2009 Email includes Loren Knight about web spinners, KD Ladagne Got here at 9:03am. Ate a breakfast bar and went with Petrick with his Fudge project memo, Howard Bampton with more and Mike to unload the truck at the new Taylor warehouse. shopping cart fixes, Alex Schenck with FC playtest reports, Jean APOD is a picture of a CLOUD formation? What idiot is picking Sexton with the publishable version of the GC rulebook, a store their pics? The truck we loaded last night was unloaded and registering for OPL, Mike Burke asking about getting his local returned here at 10:15. I finished FYEO for 5 Nov. New arctic store listed, Patrick Doyle about the FC Tactics Manual. New dinosaur finds in Russia support sudden extinction. BBS and ankylosaurid: Minotaurasaurus ramachandrani. New bird from Forum are Ok. Sudoku 3:25. Web crawl finished at 10:53. They China: Anchiornis huxleyi. BBS is quietly productive. Forum had made another trip with the truck and turned it in. We spent the an interesting post which will go into Captain’s Log. APOD has a rest of the day pulling stuff off of shelf racks and palletizing it for nebula (good). Sudoku was 3:13, pretty good. Web crawl transport. We’d be dead without having borrowed ten pallets from completed at 11:12. Went to lunch with Petrick. A convention our printer to move the stuff on the shelves. We finally went wanted to trade a half page ad for a box of stuff and I told them home, totally exhausted, at 7:45pm. we have to have a full page ad or we don’t do it. Starlist request ======from 22406. Downloaded the last five FYEOs. Old in Box pushed back 29 days to 23 March 06 and reduced to 993 messages. MY DAY: 22 January (Thursday) 2009 Sooner or later, all of my “leftover” files will be empty. Outbox Got here at 9:15. Tired. Not looking forward to a day of manual holding at 77. Deleted 150 old posts from Current ADB News and labor. Beipiaosaurus has primitive feathers. Cathayornis put a summary in the weblog topic. Sent Howard B’s latest cart chabuensis is a new Cretaceous bird from China. BBS and fixes to Eric. In box has 180 messages. I got buried while I was Forum are fine. Beautiful planetary nebula in APOD. Sudoku sick. I mostly read FYEO files (too sick to do real work) until I 3:22. Unloading stuff off of racks onto two pallets, one for the went home at 5:30. new office and one for the new warehouse. Web crawl got done ======but I don’t remember the time. No starlist requests. I didn’t even try to do the daily chores to reduce this or eliminate some of that. MY DAY: 18 January (Sunday) 2009 They now (2:20pm) have racks 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 empty, and have I stayed home all day to rest. I did not do a stacks report because started to take them apart. Called burglar alarm companies for about the only things that got done were the new building. price comparison. Told the current landlord that we were leaving ======on 31 Jan and he had better count on giving back our deposit as he's getting back a much better unit than we rented ten years MY DAY: 19 January (MLK Day) 2009 ago. Rented truck at 4:30 so we can work all night and all day Got here at 9am. I am more or less over the plague but my voice tomorrow. We took the truck with the disassembled 2-3-4-5 racks is weak and sounds like I’m crying. Petrick is coughing every few over to the Taylor warehouse and assembled them (I did more seconds, and Leanna is sick but at her desk. Nedoceratops. manual labor today than I have done in the last year), getting Somebody suggested we start a facebook page, so I told Eric to back to the office at 9pm. I bought dinner and we all went home. do it. Several Emails from Loren about Tholian fighters. John ======Schneder said he is sending the B9 and ISC BB minis tomorrow. BBS seems quietly productive, except for the global warming MY DAY: 23 January (Friday) 2009 argument. Forum seems to be working nicely. Great photo of Got here at 9am. BBS and Forum are ok. APOD has a star Hyperion. Sudoku 3:40, not good, but Leanna interrupted me to cluster. Dinosaur list didn’t have any new dinos today. No Starlist sign some stuff. Finished the web crawl at 10:40am. No starlist requests. No work done on any projects or tasks other than requests. Old in box pushed back a month to 24 Feb 06 and moving. I sort of did the web crawl by 9:24. First trip completed down to 978 messages. Outbox holding at 82, mostly due to 10:30. Second trip loaded at 11:30. I went to lunch and came Howard Bampton’s work orders for Eric which Eric hasn’t done back at 12:30, and the truck was back and being loaded for the yet. Decent lunch. Spent the afternoon doing planning and third trip. That trip was finished at 2:45. Didn’t have time for another trip so we turned in the truck and started setting up for web crawl at 1pm, by which time the temperature in my office the liftgate truck on Saturday. Wow, what a lot of stuff to pack, dropped to 57 degrees F. The heating guy showed up and got it stack on pallets, and shuffle to the door. I fixed the broken wheel running at 2:15pm. I called the insurance company to explain the on the shrinkwrap machine so we could move it, but Leanna building coverage but our agent was not in; left voicemail. Called wanted to replace all four wheels and one was stuck. Worked to set appointment for burglar alarm company (tomorrow at 1). until 9pm getting stuff ready to move. It took 16 boxes to pack my Spent the afternoon sorting boxes and getting the new office set office (my half of the office I have shared with Petrick since up. Left with Leanna at 5pm to go to Home Depot and buy Leanna made us move out of the smaller office -- the one Mike various things needed for the building. and Eric use now -- where Petrick and I started 9 years ago). ======Mike and Petrick worked much later. ======MY DAY: 28 January (Wednesday) 2009 Got to the new building at 9:30; it’s about 20 degrees but it MY DAY: 24 January (Saturday) 2009 warmed up to over 40 degrees by mid-afternoon. It was the first Got here at 9am. Mike had already been here three hours taking time I drove straight here from home without going to the old the grocery store shelving apart. Mike’s dad came by with a office. The BBS and forum are running ok. APOD has a picture of power reciprocating saw to cut the stuck bolt on Old Smokie for an eclipse. Dino list is debating whether CGI raptors should pay us. Leanna packed up her computer, the first computer to move. I the programmers extra to do feathers. Sudoku 3:13, a good tried to do a Sudoku puzzle but I just couldn’t concentrate. The score. The forklift got delivered to the old warehouse at noon, moving truck showed up at 10am and we loaded it full twice (and and Petrick and Mike (with minimal help from me) got all 20-odd halfway for the third time). At 5:30, we had the bulk of the pallets down from the mezzanine. I spent two hours with the company moved and all went to dinner. I went home, but Petrick burglar alarm company working out the new security system. came back to the office and got his computer and mine back on Mike and Petrick got the last racks taken apart. We rented a truck line so we could keep up with the BBS. at 4pm and took the disassembled racks to the new warehouse ======and started putting them together, but it got dark in that end of the building (which has no lights) so we went back to 45th and MY DAY: 25 January (day) 2009 loaded pallets and brought them to Taylor and unloaded them, Got here at 1pm. Leanna went to the new building to get her then went back to 45th, loaded the truck for another run, and office up and running, and left me here with orders to pack up gave it up as too dark to be in that part of town. I got home about stuff to go to the new building. BBS and Forum are ok. APOD is 9pm. boring. Not in the mood for Sudoku. Cleaned up some stuff and ======headed for Taylor (Mike was busy moving stuff back onto the racks) and for 10th (where Leanna and I got our offices set up). MY DAY: 29 January (Thursday) 2009 Went home at 6pm. Got to the old 45th street warehouse at 8am; it’s about 25 ======degrees but warming up nicely. Petrick and I took the already- loaded truck to Taylor, where Mike had been working since 7am MY DAY: 26 January (Monday) 2009 shuffling and restacking pallets to make more space. After Got to the old office at 9am. Checked BBS and Email and forum. unloading, Petrick and I went back to 45th, but ran out of pallet All is well enough. Petrick came in and used my computer to wrap and had to wait until 9:30 when Leanna brought us more of check his stuff. We shut down the Internet connection so they it (she picked it up on her way into town). So we wrapped the last could restart it at the new building on 10th Street. This was done, nine pallets, loaded five of them on the truck, and Petrick took the but only some of the Internet ports work (so far) and nobody truck to Taylor warehouse while I came to the new office on 10th knows why. (They work in Leanna’s office, and I’m able to get to help Leanna try to get the internet systems working. So far onto internet only by stringing a wire down the hall to her office. (11am) the one in my office doesn’t work (I’m using a very long Leanna worked at the new building with the IT and Kyocera guys ethernet cable from Leanna’s office) but she got the printers to all day. Petrick and Mike got the stockroom shelving put together work. She plans to resume mail order shipments on Monday. and started putting stuff on it. I made several trips back and forth Mike and Petrick called at 11am and said they were headed back to get stuff people needed.The Kyocera guys brought all four to the 45th street warehouse to get the last load. I told them that Kyocera printers over here, but two hours later still don’t have Leanna and I had to go eat (diabetics have to eat on schedule; them running again and left promising to return tomorrow. Phone we had BBQ at Country Barn). SPP and Mike got the last load line #2 works in both buildings, but phone line #1 only works in taken to Taylor, then I met them at 45th to load up anything and the old building. Waiting for the phone techs to come back and fix everything going to either Taylor or 10th Street; we unloaded that it (probably Tuesday). I working putting stuff away, sorting boxes, and turned the truck in barely on time. Mike’s dad (Brad) and his and organizing my office until 7pm and went home to rest. crew showed up at 5pm and worked two hours taking the ======plywood and half of the metal decking off of the mezzanine, then MY DAY: 27 January (Tuesday) 2009 the crew quit (apparently pissed off that Petrick kept telling them to put their hardhats back on). Brad stayed and tried to help us Weather in Amarillo is 12 degrees with an inch or so of snow. I get some more metal down, but decided to pick up work the next got to the old building sometime after 9am and loaded the old day. Petrick and I worked until 9pm getting stuff moved, boxed Voyager with stuff, and got to the new building at 11am. Leanna up, and packed. was still here waiting for the heating repair guy. We went to lunch ======at a nice cafe down town, which had wonderful roast beef. Came back to the office, which is still at 60 degrees, and the heating MY DAY: 30 January (Friday) 2009 repair guy still hasn’t shown up. Petrick and Mike got here with Got to the old office at 9am. The day was something of a blur. another load of stuff from the old office at 12:20pm. Mark Tutton Mike and Petrick got the last stuff taking to the new office and is going nasty on our BBS and Forum again. Sigh. This is all warehouse. I spent most of the day at the old office loading up because I refused to change my religious beliefs to his. I ordered the last of the stuff and doing some fixit jobs so we could turn the him to stop making phony accusations and stick to product building back to the landlord. Mike’s dad (Brad) showed up at announcements. Dinosaur scientists are satisfied that they have 2pm and we had the last of the steel decking off the mezzanine dinosaur evolution figured out, and that dinosaurs fit perfectly into at 3pm. I made a run to the new office and got back to 45th street the tree of life between reptiles and birds. APOD is bad to those at 4:30pm to find out that the crew Mike’s dad had hired wasn’t boring skyline pictures you can see for yourself in your own back going to show up. Petrick, Mike, and I pitched in with Brad yard. Sudoku time 3:18 despite frostbite on my fingers. Finished (Mike’s dad) and had the mezzanine (except for the stairs and one 24-foot beam) down at 9:30pm when we were too exhausted gave us an extension due to the move.) I got the webcrawl done, to safely work. and tried to make some progress on various projects, finally ======going home at 7:30pm. MY DAY: 31 January (Saturday) 2009 ======Got to the old building on 45th at 8:50am. Petrick and Mike were MY DAY: 4 February (Wednesday) 2009 there. Mike’s dad, a friend of his named Frank, and the two guys Got to the new office at 9:05am. Jean had me write a long from Labor Ready showed up at 9am. We had the last of the rambling blog about the move. The BBS looks ok. Dinosaur list is mezzanine down and in the truck at 11am. After a few errands discussing the new bill in Congress restricting fossil hunting on and a last walkthrough, we officially left the 45th Street building public land. The forum seems ok. APOD has simulated art of for the last time at 2:30pm. GaspCon sent an email thanking us some planet with an eliptical orbit (which reminds me of Lost in for support. Joe Stevenson played the “race card” in the weather Space). Suduko 3:23. Old in box down to 928 and back to 13 Feb topic, which is apparently his private domain where the BBS rules 2006. Web crawl finished at 10:56. The plumbers showed up and do not apply to him. VBAM sent in a progress report. I mostly replaced both toilets with more modern ones. Outbox has 116. spent the time trying to sort out boxes of stuff. At 4pm, our The BBS reduction project resumes; I deleted 47 weblog posts internet connection died for no apparent reason, and after from 2005 and compiled them into a document for Eric. Worked spending an hour trying to get it to work, we all went home. with Petrick on G3. Locksmith replaced the locks on the new ======building and gave us all new keys. Sent Eric updates for About page on the website. The next item on my list was ‘reduce in box” MY DAY: 1 February (Sunday) 2009 so I went through reports from Eric on work orders he had I went by the office for a few minutes to pick up something I left completed, and checked his work, sending him a few further there, found internet had not magically fixed itself, and went fixes. Starlist request for 57106. Sent Todd Boyce detailed home. I spent the day resting. Twelve days of manual labor drawings of Klingon and Kzinti fighters for minis. In a burst of (mostly double shifts) had left me totally exhausted. energy, I removed the broken lock from the front bathroom door ======(but need a 1-inch drill to install the new one), found out what MY DAY: 2 February (Monday) 2009 kind of screws to buy to fix the broken folding tables, found the studs in the packing room wall and figured out what kind of Got here at 8:30am. Got some stuff squared away. Phil Reed screws to get for them, and got the bed (it was Leanna’s from Steve Jackson Games came by for a visit to see our print on mother’s) set up in the equipment room in case I want to make a demand plant. We showed Phil the plant and took him to nap or have a quickie. Went through my In-Box and sent out over Marizon’s for lunch. At 1:30, I watched Phil head up the on ramp 30 “automated” notes that I’m buried after the move and will get to Fort Worth en route to Austin. I got back to the office to be told to their Email as soon as I can. Staff meeting noted progress on that internet was working. Well, sort of. I read dinolist and both the “punch list”, set the release of G3 (plus border box 8 and the forums. I don’t think I actually did the web crawl (I should have, orion) for 16 Feb, and set the release of Briefing #2 and PD-Fed but it’s too late now as I have to leave and go home). We had a for 2 March, and decided on the sign for the front door. Leanna meeting at 4pm, minutes: Leanna called locksmith to change and I left at 6pm to run some of the company errands; Petrick keys, I was told to get the shelves put up in the packing room and worked until late on G3. change the lock on Leanna’s bathroom, Leanna called to remind ======the HVAC contractor to get the new thermostat put in, we made a list of things we need from the building supply store (Lowes), we MY DAY: 5 February (Thursday) 2009 set the preliminary date for the open house as the 27th, we went Got to the new office at 9:30. The telephone people got here to crazy finding the lost box of blue perforated paper, Petrick and I figure out the parts of the phone system we cannot figure out. reviewed the Origins events plan and the product schedule (he’s Todd Boyce sent gorgeous pictures of the 3d model of the F18 not sure if he can finish G3 by Monday), Leanna tried to call the fighter mini. Industry mailing list is discussing that pitching a plumber to put in the new toilets. I spent most of the afternoon product on the basis of “You played WOW on line, so try this (with Petrick) helping Mike get the packing room ready. UPS said totally unrelated game on a table with real people” is a very tough that even though we told them last week we were moving that sell, but that doing an MMO of an existing table game produces a they could not get their act together to pick up shipments today, spike in sales of the table game (if only for reference material). so we didn’t do the labels for 20 outbound shipments, then the Big stink about some RPG called Hammerfall on Facebook that UPS driver showed up looking for outbound shipments. I finally is reportedly using art without permission in violation of copyright went home at 7pm. and then denying they are doing it. Processed the 2006 weblog ======archive and sent it to Eric to upload. This deleted about 20 MY DAY: 3 February (Tuesday) 2009 messages from the BBS. The BBS seems to be running ok. Forum is ok. APOD as a very nice star forming region in a nearby Got to the new office at 8:15am. I grabbed the camera and took galaxy. The telephone people finally got all of the phones photos of the current state of the place and posted some of them. working. Continuing to explore the neighborhood, Leanna and I I spent the morning going through boxes and putting stuff up. The found a delightful little cafe which has turkey (real turkey, carved old landlord called at 10:15 and wanted to go see the old from the bone) on Thursdays. Ann Coulter was comparing building, so we drove over to meet him. He was stunned at how voluntary single motherhood (a social disaster of epic clean we left it (move-in ready) and how much we had done to proportions) to the harm caused by smoking. Sudoku 2:53, a very improve it, and promised to send back our deposit promptly. good time, possibly my second best. Finished the web crawl at Leanna and I went on to lunch. After lunch, I finished posting the 1:27pm. Quality checked four cartons of maps for Mike so he office photos. Dinosaur list had a controversy over an important could pack orders for wholesalers. Starlist request for 49330. fossil which was stolen from Mongolia (dug up illegally). It’s and Reduced the old in box to 891 and pushed it back to Feb 1, 2006. important ankylosaur, but as nobody knows where it was dug up, There are only three Emails from 2006 left to review. Cleaned out nobody can tell for sure if it’s older or younger than other the attachments folder; two weeks of junk (mostly porn and ankylosaurs, and nobody wants to encourage the trade in illegal viagra ads). Tried to put the new doorknob on the bathroom but fossils. BBS seems quietly productive. Forum is doing fine. figured out I needed a tool I don’t have (one required by the fact APOD has a picture of a cloud. Guys, that is NOT astronomy! that the door is 58 years old and the knob won’t work without Sudoku 3:39, off my game. More working cleaning up stuff and doing some... err... work). Worked with Leanna to bid a small sorting stuff. Teeth cleaning from 2-3. Turned in the Origins book printing job for another company (which they accepted the events list. (Yes, we were three days late, but Trey at GAMA next day). I promised Leanna that I would take the evening off to spend time with her and the kids, so we left at 5:30pm. with the Global Warming bunch taking over the weather topic and ======chasing out anyone who opposes their new religion, but that is their standard tactic. Opposing views of global warming are not MY DAY: 6 February (Friday) 2009 refuted, but simply driven out. Forum is fine. APOD has an Got to the new office at 9:05am. Dinosaur list is talking about interesting galaxy picture. Sudoku 3:18. No Starlist requests. some small craters that date the same as Chixilub. Somebody Web Crawl finished at 10:54am. Old in box down to 793 and who doesn’t like the ‘resident trolls on the BBS’ wants me to back to 19 Oct 2005. Out box at 69. Roast beef at Marizon’s for come discuss his rules idea on his own BBS, and I said “no”. The lunch. Karl Vogelheim asked me to define “war” ships for his BBS seems ok. The forum seems ok, although they may not like campaign (i.e., enforce a decision on his opponents). I sent some what I said about counters for boosters 91-95. APOD has cute guidelines but was clear that I was not writing his campaign rules picture of space station passing in front of the moon. Makes it and his opponents did not have to take my word for it. BBS look like the space station is near the moon. Sudoku 2:54, a very reduction project: processed archive of 2007 Blogs from 21 Nov good time. Web crawl complete at 10:15am. Starlist request from through 11 Dec. Read FYEO for 10-11 Nov. I hung up my clock 48197. Old in box is down to 856 messages, but I didn’t push it and four of my pictures (then had to go do some work, but if I back any as I wanted to actually read a submission. Out box make some progress each day, it will get done). Somebody down to 56. In Box down to 217. (Mostly by answering Eric’s asked if he could go into business selling decals for our ships, reports and deleting work orders he has done.) Did some work and I told him to go right ahead, and that while he could not use on the 2007 Company Weblog archive, but had to stop. Sent Eric the art of other decal printers, he could use our race symbols file. the stuff for covers for three new products to work on. He Asked printers for quotes on printing covers. Started doing the invented a new logo for PD20M. With the proper tools, I finished cover for the printed GC rulebook, but had to ask Leanna for installing the new locking door knob on Leanna’s bathroom. Went some stuff. Did Communique #38 and put it on Petrick’s desk home at 7pm. (Discussed G3 MFC at dinner with Petrick at with a note to give it back TODAY so I can send it to the staff and Robison’s BBQ.) get it out on time. He did, and I did. Leanna picked a stock ======number for GCRB and I finished the cover. Did a star fleet alert MY DAY: 7 February (Saturday) 2009 announcing the move and sent it to Jean to proof. I emptied my one box (quota) out of Jean’s office today (although I had to look Slept in. Got to the new office at noon. Most of the Email was really hard for a box of Petrick’s stuff so I could just hand it to him from Jean about the covers going to press. BBS and forum are and scratch it off the list). Sent Eric the instructions for the fine. APOD has a fairly boring comet. Sudoku 3:27. Industry February newsletter and an Email to come in early. Packed up mailing lists are discussing the non-legality of stuff like Vassal and went home at 7pm. and ZunTsu and similar “gamebox” items. Web Crawl completed ======at 12:50pm. Starlist request for 93940. Old in box down to 840 and pushed back to 7 Nov 05! Out box at 78. Did a few more MY DAY: 10 February (Tuesday) 2009 pages of the 2007 blog compilation so that I could reduce the Got to the new office at 8:15am. Yes, I came in early. I was kind number of BBS Posts (when I finish 2007). In box is at 216. Sent of fired up to get some stuff accomplished. Communique reports Eric the first step of instructions on the reference rulebook cover. from Jean and Mike West. BBS is ok. New dicraeosauridae from Read FYEO for 7 Nov, the first time I have read one since the Patagonia. Forum is mostly minis questions. APOD has a decent move started. Replaced the doorknob on the closet (I have the photo of Orion’s belt. Sudoku 3:19. Web Crawl completed at proper tools so it only took 10 minutes). Worked on Briefing #2. 8:53am. No Starlist requests. Old in box down to 774 and back to Worked with Petrick on G3. Leanna was still working on stuff, 1 Sept 2005. Out box at 72. As part of the BBS reduction project, and we were here in one car, so we all went to dinner and came I finished the 2007 weblog archive compilation and sent it to Eric back. It’s now 7pm, and I may try to do something productive. to upload. This allowed me to delete 117 old weblog posts from Read FYEO for Nov 8. Did Hydran MSSB report pages 10-15, 2007. Revised the GC cover to be what Leanna wanted; twice. through the Early Combat Pallet. Leanna decided to leave at 8pm Did a cover for Klingon Space since some retailer in the UK and while the bed in the equipment room was tempting I left with wanted to buy one. (We got a huge order from Esdevium.) I hung her. a few more of my pictures. I did a star fleet alert for the galactic ======conquest rulebook and sent it to Jean to proof. [Three hours MY DAY: 8 February (Sunday) 2009 later.] Wow, what a whirlwind. We got the covers for G3, Briefing 2, Reference rulebook, and PDFeds done. We also did the cover Got to the new office at 2:45pm (with Leanna) to do some for Galactic conquest (and did it over when a wholesaler heard decluttering. Several Emails from Jean about current projects. about it and demanded to be able to order it). We also did a BBS and Forum are doing fine. Old in box is down to 806. APOD cover for Klingon Space since the wholesaler in the UK wanted to has a spectacular view of the Eagle Nebula. Sudoku 3:12. No order a copy for a store. We also finished and uploaded Starlist requests. Outbox 69. In Box 216. Webcrawl finished at Communique 38, Hailing Frequencies, and two Star Fleet Alerts. 4pm. Did four more pages of 2007 blog compilation (covering 1- I am totally exhausted. It’s 6:30 and there’s no point in my staying 20 Nov) so I can eventually delete BBs posts. Read FYEO for 9 here. Too burned out. Nov. Went home at 5pm. ======MY DAY: 9 February (Monday) 2009 MY DAY: 11 February (Wednesday) 2009 Got to the new office at 9am. Dinosaur list had several interesting Got to the new office at 10am. (I slept in, after sleeping almost all new papers published. John Berg is pleased that distributors are of Sunday. I must be tired for some reason.) Vudar IPG Memo taking the GC4 rulebook. Told Jean to send instructions to Eric from Mike West looks good, but I want to tighten up the rules and set up a GC page on the website. I spent way too many hours avoid having people assume what they mean. Sent Jean to warn reading a three-year-old submission (Thunderdome) and trying to Grafton that “not posting links to one-sided news” includes any figure out what to do with it. BBS and Forum are ok. Nice photo mention of such things (with or without links) and prohibited him on APOD. I just didn’t feel like doing Sudoku today. Finished web from posting any mention of outside news (as he has shown an crawl at 4:08pm. No starlist requests. I put up Leanna’s coat intent to abuse the priviledge). Announcement for world league hooks (for her sweater and mailbag). Worked on G3 with Petrick. 2009. Animal Planet is launching an eight-part series on Meeting reviewed state of the continually-evolving move-in evolution and dinosaurs starting 12 Feb. Jean reminded me of project. Old in box is down to 759 messages and back to 29 Aug the “hot list” of things to do ASAP such as communique and the 05. I edited 7 days of the Jan-08 blog as part of the BBS newsletter. The usual spam, sigh. BBS is mostly ok. I am fed up reduction program. I moved ten cartons of empty boxes out of Jean’s office into a storage area. Read FYEO for 12 Nov. Gave going to throw out or ship to Bruce Graw, and I asked him if he up and went home sometime after 7:30pm. Well, that WAS the wanted them or not. Did the quarterly update for GGIC. Did a plan, but I stayed until after 9pm, keeping Petrick company and Star Fleet Alert for tomorrow. Hung pictures in Leanna’s office. cleaning out two of the sixteen cartons of junk stacked in the Read FYEO for 14 and 15 Nov. Jean proofed the Alert so I sent it back of my office. to Eric to upload and to Mike to send out. For this week’s website ======update, I sent Eric an updated Capitalization list. Stacks report at 21%. Packed up to go home at 7pm. MY DAY: 12 February (Thursday) 2009 ======Got to the new office at 9am. Dinosaur list had startling new finds in Peru. Nothing in Email worth mentioning. BBS seems ok. MY DAY: 17 February (Tuesday) 2009 Forum is moving into the direct-fire-drone fix discussion. APOD Got to the new office at 9:45am after taking Leanna to breakfast has another stupid skyline phone. Hey, guys, we can see THAT at McDonald’s. (It’s “one car day” so we can save the planet, out fhe freaking window! Sudoku 3:11. Web crawl finished at which means I come and go on her schedule, not mine.) 10:53. Went to lunch at J’s where Thursday is Turkey special. No Dinosaur list had some fascinating stuff about very very early Starlist requests. Old In Box is down to 735 and back to 15 Aug dinos. Siadek brothers say another draft of Star Fleet 05. Out box at 81. BBS reduction project: compiled dayblog 8-14 Battlestations is near completion. BBS and Forum are doing ok. Jan 08. Reduced in box to 216. Hung up my pistol targets (I No starlist requests on file. APOD had a picture of some strange qualified as an “expert’ both times). I sent Eric Jean’s instructions weather thing, which just IS NOT ASTRONOMY you morons. to create a Galactic Conquest page for the website. Read FYEO Sudoku 3:17 (on the fourth try, Leanna kept interrupting me with for 13 Nov 08. Used chisel to cut trim in corner of my office to “Can I throw this away?” nonsense as she cleans out boxes.) match the new baseboard. Finally got all of the covers to press Web Crawl finished at 10:53. Lunch was grilled fish, about half as and the printer said we would not have them until late next week, much food as I normally eat, but Leanna says I have to lose so we will ship G3, the Orion DN, and Border Box 8 on 23 Feb. weight. Website reduction project: finished the compiled Jan 08 Going home at 6pm since I came in Leanna’s car and don’t want blog and sent to Matt to upload. Deleted 31 posts. Old in box is to stay all night. down to 680 and but still stuck on 15 July 05 (which was a busy ======mail day). Out box is holding at 83. Read FYEO for 16+17 Nov. Helped Petrick organize the G3 files. Got the contracts for VBAM MY DAY: 13 February (Friday) 2009 and Starmada notorized and sent back. Mike confirmed that the Got to the new office at 9am after a stop at McDonald’s for alert had been sent. I removed five boxes from Jean’s office (one biscuits and gravy. Jean seems happy with the new Galactic involved sorting and emptying, the others just involved putting Conquest page on the site. Dino list was talking about Darwin them where they went). Cleaned up the equipment room. Picked day. Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader Barbie won the annual award the revised ship for Comm-39. Set up a master document for for the toy most destructive to the development of Children. BBS Petrick and got him started putting the excel MSC file into and forum seem ok. APOD is pathetic. Sudoku 3:28 (doctor says pagemaker for G3. Did the graphic for the front door sign and it delays alzheimers). Finished the web crawl at 11am, just in sent it to Leanna to play with. Did Lyran CL (Fleet scale) for time for lunch. Industry mailing list debates whether or not GTS is Hydran Attack. Stacks report at 40%. Did the new ship for worth the time and money. Starlist request from 47906. Old in Comm-39. Went home at 7pm. box was down to 704 and back to 15 July 2005. Worked on ======various files and went home at 6pm to take Ramses rabbit hunting. MY DAY: 18 February (Wednesday) 2009 ======Got to the new office at 9am. (Leanna made soup last night, and I had the last bowl for breakfast.) Weather is cool and clear. Are MY DAY: 14 February (Valentine’s Day) 2009 dromaeosaurid tracks rare because even raptors were arboreal? Got to the new office at 10am after stopping to pick up flowers for Nothing much in Email. BBS and Forum are ok. APOD has a Leanna. Nothing much in Email. Dinosaur list was some boring graphic of the first time two satellites smacked into each other technical talk. The BBS and forum are ok. APOD has a gorgeous (which happened last week). While not legitimate astronomy, it photo: IC 1805-The Heart Nebula. Sudoku 3:40, just not on my was fascinating. Sudoku 3:01, a very good time for me. I did all of game today. Web crawl finished at ... sometime. Lost interest and the ships from Communique #39 and told Art Trotman to do a went home to be with Leanna. scenario for me. Web Crawl was finished at 11am. No Starlist ======requests. The next door neighbors dropped in to say hello. Doyle MY DAY: 15 February (Sunday) 2009 got Petrick’s computer fixed. Went to a cafe we have had good food at to try the Wednesday special (and won’t ever go there on Got to the new office at 4pm to clean out Email and sort out my Wednesday again). Old in box is down to 670 and back to 7 July desk before Monday morning. Biggest Stegosaurus footprint ever 05. Outbox is down to 58, mostly by processing Eric’s reports found. BBS and Forum are fine. APOD has a photo of Antarctica that he did work orders (which eliminates the work order from the (which has WHAT to do with astronomy?). Puttered some and outbox). BBS reduction project: I spent time compiling part of the went home about 6pm. Feb 08 dayblog. Did a ship card for FCOL and sent it to Paul to ======be sure I had the right format and content. Hung a picture and MY DAY: 16 February (Monday) 2009 took seven boxes of stuff out of Jean’s office and put them up. Got to the new office at 9:15 after breakfast at McDonald’s. Leanna checked the county website and found I don’t have to go Dispute over dinosaur tracks in Idaho. Only Email this morning to jury duty. (I could have used the break, since I’d be there all was Jean reminding me to take my meds and do the GGIC morning -- and then be thrown out because as a military unit update. Michael Tisdel did email yesterday asking for a commander I found everybody who came before me for an tournament announcement in communique. BBS and Forum are Article 15 guilty.) Read FYEO 18-19 Nov. Sent a note to Iron ok. APOD has the Great Carina Nebula. (What a refreshing Crown about Silent Star Fleet. Did the ship card for the ISC change to actually have an astronomy picture.) Sudoku 3:11, squadron scale strike cruiser. Worked on MSSB. I have no idea much better. Got the stuff ready for the Monday Morning how many pages I did, but I got from R9.40 through R9.89, which Meeting. Webcrawl finished at 11am. Starlist request from was a lot more than the quota. Stacks report at 51%. Went home Cambridge, England. Old in box down to 695 and back to 15 July at 7pm. 05. Out Box at 83. BBS reduction project: did another 7 days of ======compiling the Jan 08 dayfile blog. I did not get any boxes out of MY DAY: 19 February (Thursday) 2009 Jean’s office, but there are four boxes of stuff that I’m either Got to the new office at 9:30. (I made 160 bundles of paperclips have deleted as too long. Out box has 65, mostly work orders for Romulan Border last night.) I forgot to mention that the covers Eric has done that I haven’t checked. BBS reduction project: I for G3, FCRRB, FCB2, and PD20Fed, arrived yesterday. Reports copied the rest of the March dayblogs and put them into a file, from Team MSSB on the true carrier issue. Pterosaur respiration. formatted the file, and did a ton of computer searches to RPG publishers are freaking out that sales for all RPGs have eliminate tedious and tiresome duplications (which I fortunately dropped 70% in the last six months and the RPG hobby seems stopped doing in the middle of last year). Sent FCOL the Hydran doomed. APOD has another stupid skyline photo. I can see the Cuirassier and Lyran DN (both halves in each case). Somebody milky way by driving a mile from my house. Sudoku 3:29. Web emailed a request for a new ship to be added to FC so I did the crawl finished at 11am. Nice turkey lunch (Thursday is turkey day ship card and put it into Communique-40 and sent him a PDF. at J’s). No starlist requests. Helped Petrick continue the process Finished Communique-39 and sent it to the staff. Moved four of getting G3 into a printable format (page layout software is boxes out of Jean’s office in various storage places or the something we are just beginning to teach him). Old in box down dumpster. Read FYEO for 23 & 24 Nov. Petrick left at 7:10. I to 660 and back to 18 June 05. I Sent an email to the sculptors moved the second-biggest box (the scrap cardboard box) out of asking if anybody wants to do a Rigellian, Vulcan, or Andorian Jean’s office and under the packing table where it belongs. (A ship. Out box at 58. BBS reduction project: compiled another place for every thing, and everything in its place. Well, that week of Feb 08 dayblog. Sent the Hydran Knight Sq and the particular thing has long had a place but until I moved other stuff, Lyran CA Flt+Sq to FCOL. The sign guy showed up to do the we couldn’t reach the big heavy thing in question to move it.) front door, said it would cost $100 and take a week, he was told Continued to move stuff out of Jean’s office. I found the old dry- to go ahead. John Denton, the chaplain of my old Guard unit, erase board and hung it in the stock room so Leanna can write came by and we had a nice chat; he watches after my spiritual what Mike needs to pack. I continue to move boxes out of Jean’s health. Curt Besselman, the guy from the office furniture store, office, but I have to pace myself. This late in the day, it’s easy to brought by a sample of the chairs Leanna is thinking about get so “tired” that I cannot safely drive. I make about two trips ordering for the conference table, kitchen table, and guest chairs. then sit down for five minutes (and read emails of what people I got four boxes of junk out of Jean’s office. Ready FYEO for 20 think of Eric’s new commander’s circle). Well, Petrick’s Nov. After Jean hounded me for months to honor my doctor’s “grandfather clock” just gong-ed for 8pm so I am going home, orders, I took a 20 minute walk, and was not totally exhausted feeling like I got something done. (but did get tired of the panhandlers asking me for money). I ======worked on G3, reformatting the Combined Convenient Charts Pages (CCCP) because the formatting exploded when Petrick STACKS REPORT: 15-21 February 2009 pasted all of those charts that Tos Crawford wanted into one Goals met: 64%. Done: Star Fleet Alert, Communique 39, March document and the style sheets went to war. I hung two more newsletter, Website upgrades, art schedule, website update, pictures. Went home (actually, to Waffle House) about 8:30pm. work on new building, gaining ground on FYEO backlog (+5); ======progress on Star Fleet Battlestations, VBAM, and Starmada; Progress quota met on MSSB, Hydran Attack, Warp & Peace; G3 MY DAY: 20 February (Friday) 2009 finished; Savage Worlds contract done; talked with sculptors Got to the new office at 9:15am. VBAM got the marked-up about new ships, Checked with Mike on minis inventory, Border manuscript I sent them. Austroraptor cabazai found in Argentina. Box 8 and Orion DN finished; progress with Ninja magic. Waiting Plans are set for the trip to Steve Jackson Games. (We’re to hear from Leanna about CL#2 reprint, Chuck about ISC war, helping them build the mezzanine, not buying them out.) We’ll Iron Crown about Silent Star Fleet, PD20M. Failed to make leave Sunday 1 March and be home Saturday 7 March. BBS and progress on Alliance listings, Briefing #2, SIT updates, F&E Q&A, Forum are fine. No starlist requests. APOD has a black nebula. PDFED, CL39. Sudoku 3:09. (My doctor says this pushes back alzheimers.) ======Web crawl finished at 10:29. Revised the CCCP for G3 to fix the mis-formats that Petrick found. Meeting approved the new chairs MY DAY: 22 February (Sunday) 2009 and rescheduled the open house from 27 Feb to 27 March due to Got to the new office at noon after Leanna and I stopped at Furr’s problems of getting stuff done on time. BBQ for lunch at Country for Sunday dinner. Leanna was pleased with how much stuff was Barn. Helped Mike pack Border Box 8 while Leanna was using missing from Jean’s office. We came in so Leanna could print my computer to fix the headings on G3. Then went back and books, so officially I am not here. Mathematical models of fixed the charts on G3 (more tweaking, and found another mis- dinosaur population size. No real Email except some personal format). BBS reduction project. Finished Feb 08 blog compilation notes from Jean and her friends. BBS and Forum are ok. Very and sent it to Eric to upload. This deleted 35 obsolete posts. Old strange reports on the Commander’s Circle revision, in that the in box down to 650 and back to 17 June 2005. Out Box is at 59. same link is taking people to at least two very different versions In Box is at 232 which is absurd. Ship cards sent to FCOL: of the thing Eric did. I’m getting reports that “all 38 links go to Dragoon-Fleet, Paladin-Both, Knight-Fleet. We started printing comm-1” which I know as true on Friday but he had fixed that on G3 at 4pm. Killing two birds with one stone, I did “twenty minutes Saturday before I posted the link, and for me all 38 links work of continuous movement, not sitting down” while moving junk out fine. APOD has a spectacular view of the Orion nebula. No of Jean’s office (five or six cartons got done). I read FYEO for 21- starlist requests. I didn’t take time to work on the old In box or the 22 Nov. By 6pm, I was sick and exhausted, and went home. out box or the in box. I did a little work on the March blog ======compilation for the BBS reduction project. At 1pm, I stopped working at my desk and went to do carpentry work in the packing MY DAY: 21 February (Saturday) 2009 room. An hour later, and I had to go sit down. I got the shelf racks Got to the new office at 10am after breakfast at McDonald’s. put together, and some clutter cleared out, but there is a lot more Read about “Mass Properties” of Dinosaurs. Art Trotman sent an to do. I kept alternating working on the packing room and sitting FC scenario, which I used in Comm-39. BBS and Forum are fine. at my desk doing email. We finally went home about 4pm. APOD has a fairly boring comet. I totally blew Sudoku (placing ======tiles I knew were right, I suddenly got into a corner and had three wrong tiles and just stopped; I must have thought one was “the MY DAY: 23 February (Monday) 2009 only place it could go” when it wasn’t.) Web crawl finished at Got to the new office at 9:15am after having to turn around in 11:10am. Told Eric to create small versions of covers for mid-commute to go home and get something Leanna forgot. (I advertising and alerts. No starlist requests. Created topics for don’t know if cell phones are a blessing or a curse.) Dino list F&E Scenarios. Old in box is down to 640 and back to 16 June didn’t have anything worth reading. Only email was Jean’s daily 05. Answered a survey for Jean that (for anyone else) I would reports and the lady at Steve Jackson Games making hotel reservations for us in Austin for next week. Industry mailing list BBS reduction project: Compiled one week of March 08 Dayfile included this: “None of us will get rich designing games, but if we blog. (I will eventually reach early November, when I switched to do it right today, we get to get up tomorrow and do this again.” the system I use now, and that will be much easier to do as I BBS and Forum are ok. APOD has some moon pictures distorted won’t have to DO anything but PDF a file I already have.) Read by the atmosphere. Ok, I’ll buy that it’s legitimate astronomy, but FYEO for 30 Nov and 1 Dec. Cathy from Xerox stopped by for a it’s boring. Sudoku 3:18. Web crawl finished at 11am. Leanna is chat about selling us a color printer. I reviewed some clutter at a doctor’s appointment (doctor has no sense of time or respect boxes with Mike, but they’re at the end of a long list of clutter for patients). No starlist requests. Old in box is down to 630 and boxes. Petrick and I reviewed the quality control report on new back to 16 June 2005. Out Box at 60. BBS Reduction Project: minis shipments with Mike (half of the C7s were bad) and I Processed more of March 08 DayBlog. Sent both sides of Lyran thought we might sell defective ships at Origins (but not by mail). DD and Lyran FF to FCOL. Let’s see if anybody is reading this. I hung three more pictures; there are at least six more to be Pick a ship from FCHA and I’ll send it. Updated the stacks report hung. I did the FLAP list for G3, BB8, Orion DN, and GCRB4. for last week. Read FYEO for 26-27 Nov. Did Star Fleet Alert for Cleaned out a clutter box. G3 release. Weekly (rotating) website update (Confirmed to be ======up to date): [www.federationcommander.com /Newsletter/ past.html]. I did enough MSSB last week that I did not have to do MY DAY: 26 February (Thursday) 2009 any this week, HOWEVER, I had two “go back to the staff items” Got to the new office at 9:10am after stopping to buy flowers for about the LNH and HDW and got staff input and resolved them. Leanna. (The ones I bought on the 14th finally died.) A new long- While I had the file open, I worked on it until I had another item in necked Stegosaur has been found. Jean sent in the Andor file for 97A which I had to ask the staff about, so I sent it to the staff and PD Feds. BBS and Forum are fine. No Starlist requests today. moved on to other things. Major staff meeting at 4pm (mostly APOD has a skyline picture (snore). Sudoku 3:14. Web crawl planning for the week and for the Austin trip). Officially finished finished at 10:27am. Old In box down to 600 and back to 14 June cleaning out Jean’s office. (There is still some stuff to send to 05. Read FYEO for 2-3 December. Sent Overlord and Mongol Taylor Warehouse and some stuff for “long term, piece by piece, (both sides) to FCOL. Hung two more pictures. BBS reduction sorting by SVC”.) I put up the first shelf in the packing room, then project: did 8-14 April dayblog compilation. Out box at 58. Got the went to dinner and came back. It took only an hour to mount the updated Federation Admiral campaign book from VBAM. second and third shelf (having figured out all the hard parts). I FINALLY got to be a game designer again (although Mike West finished up about 9pm, played computer games for a while, took had already done all the thinking) and worked on Briefing #2. I a nap in the equipment room, and finally drove home at 2am. did the Klingon C6, D7C, D7, D6, F5, E4. Two about two hours. ======Staff meeting to plan the shuffle for the next ten days. (Today and tomorrow, moving stuff around between buildings. Saturday, MY DAY: 24 February (Tuesday) 2009 load truck. Sunday, drive truck. Monday+Tuesday: SPP+SVC in Got to the new office at 9:45am. Ok, so, I’m late. BBS and Forum Austin, everybody else normal. Wednesday the same except are fine. APOD has Barnard’s Loop and the Horsehead Nebula Leanna flies to Austin. Thursday-Friday-Saturday, we’ll be (my favorite). Sudoku 3:09, a pretty decent time. Lunch at closed, but Mike and Eric will be doing warehouse stuff. SPP, Marizon’s was underwhelming but decent. Web crawl finished at SVC, and LMC drive home on Saturday.) Sent most of the junk in 12:30. No Starlist requests. I used a block plane on the door of Jean’s office to the Taylor Street warehouse. Did the eight the kitchen cabinet so it would not scratch the floor. Jay Waschak Romulan ships for Briefing #2. Went home at 8pm. said he would have the next edition of Federation Admiral ======Campaign Book to me before I left on Sunday. Old in box is down to 620 and back to 16 June 05. (This is part of the “war on MY DAY: 27 February (Friday) 2009 backlog” announced a year ago. I seem to be winning. When the Got to the new office at 9:52. (It’s green day, when we take one war is won, the final step is to go through submissions.) Out box car, and I get here when Leanna does.) Nothing much on is down to 59. BBS reduction project: finished compiling March DinoList. Mike West sent the rest of the ship conversions for 08 weblog and sent it to Eric. Deleted about 40 posts. Sent Star FCB2. Flareup in GCC. Forum is ok. Another photo of the Fleet Alert for Starmada joint venture. Sent Paul Franz the Lyran unspectacular comet Lulin. Sudoku 3:26. My average dropped a CW and BCH (both sides) for FCOL. Read FYEO for 28-29 Nov. second to 3:44. Web Crawl finished at 10:32. Starlist request There are six “clutter boxes” from the old SVC-SPP office which from Liverpool, England. (Doing UK Starlist is a mess, since the were found when moving. These are now stored in the back end post codes aren’t in order, and I have to hunt around on a British of Jean’s office. I cleaned one of them out in about five minutes, post code map to find that WA is next to L.) Old in box down to finding it to consist mostly of: notes from products we were 590 and back to 13 June 05. Out box holding at 61. BBS designing in 2002 (discarded), Petrick’s comic books, and reduction project: Finished the April compilation of the dayblog Petrick’s sun glasses (given to him). While trying (and failing) to and sent it to Eric, deleted 35 posts. Sent WYN CW and DW to make sense of the MSSB question about the Hydran SRVs (true FCOL. Did quality control on 900 map panels, rejecting about 60 or false carriers?) I worked on the file until it crashed (which it of them. Mike Sparks ordered a restock of minis from AoG. Read always does, it’s too big with too many graphics and tables) FYEO for 4 Dec. Lots of Email with relatives in Austin and with which got me through the main numbers and down to the Steve Jackson games, took up a ton of time. I went ahead and Pegasus type hulls. Did the Lyran DW for Hydran Attack. Eric sent the last two FCDK cards (not counting bonus cards) to Paul was in and out of my office working on the new Commander’s so they’ll be there before I leave town. I got three ships done for Circle; he gave me the new link (I posted it) and I went home at Briefing #2 before Leanna said we had to go home and do 6pm to take Ramses rabbit hunting. laundry before I could pack for the trip to Austin, so we left at ======6pm. ======MY DAY: 25 February (Wednesday) 2009 Got to the new office at 9am on the dot. Nothing interesting on MY DAY: 28 February (Saturday) 2009 Dino List. Email included four guys who “really did” read the blog Got to the new office at 9am. Petrick picked me up so we can and asked for an FCHA ship. Long phone call with Alliance about shuttle the truck later. BBS and forum are fine. APOD has a nice a marketing opportunity. Nice photo of Comet Lulin. Sudoku 2:59, galaxy. Sudoku 3:25. Web crawl finished at 9:50am. We drove an excellent time (maybe my third best, maybe fourth; my record over to get the truck and ran into Mister Murphy. The two people is 2:47 and my average is 3:45. Web crawl finished at 10:47. Put ahead of us in line were total idiots who couldn’t figure out what G3, BB8, and Orion DN on cart. Starlist 40218. Old in box is trucks they wanted. We needed a sixteen foot truck, and found down to 610 and back to 15 June 05. Out Box is down to 55. out that the eight trucks they had varied from 15 foot 10 inches to one single truck that was actually 16 feet and a fraction of an hunting seals with other people. I got to playtest the zombie inch. But they couldn’t rent us that one because it wasn’t in the teddy bear game again. computer. Since no other truck would do, they called all over their ======system until they found out what was wrong and fixed it. So, we were an hour late before the day’s festivities of loading the truck MY DAY: 6 March (Friday) 2009 even began. But now it’s 3:30 and the truck is fully loaded and MY DAY: FRIDAY 6 MARCH 2009 we’ve all had a good lunch at Logan’s steakhouse. I have an A good day for our last day in Austin. hour and a half to get three days work done before I leave for a Construction has gone well. week. Sheesh. Went through the list of emails, sending “out of We playtested two more new games (one about scalping tickets town notes” to most of them and answering a few. The list of stuff in ancient rome, one about rearranging the stars to summon I need to do is getting longer, the time it takes to do any given Cthulu) plus another game of Castle Builder. thing is getting longer, and the drop dead time I have to leave the Steve Jackson took us to his favorite BBQ joint (Salt Lick) which office kept getting pushed back. I have to leave at 5pm to have is a WAYS from Austin. enough daylight to repair the fence before I leave town. Sheesh. We went with him to talk to Konica, Xerox, and Canon to dicuss Anyway, I’ll do what I can and the rest can just wait. Did an alert print on demand systems. for Reference Rulebook. Sent advertising package to Alliance. Steve Jackson presented us with some free Cthulu dolls and a ======copy of Munchkin Quest and its expansion. Leanna and I went to have a long dinner (at Salt Grass MY DAY: 1 March (Sunday) 2009 steakhouse) with her relatives whom we had not seen in years. First day of the Austin trip. Woke up early, so Petrick and I left Petrick, meanwhile, went to Phil Reed's house to play games early. Quiet drive. Jean made us walk into a restaurant in Bowie with Steve Jackson and Monica and Phil's wife. and eat a nice lunch (roast beef). Got to hotel in Austin at 5:10 We linked up again at the hotel at 10pm. pm. Some of Leanna's relatives showed up to get some boxes of ======stuff from Leanna's mother's estate. Ate grilled chicken for dinner at Jack in the Box (awful doesn’t begin to describe it). Back to MY DAY: 7 March (Saturday) 2009 hotel to read a book and pass the evening. Last day of the Austin trip. Got up at 7:30, ate breakfast, packed ======up, checked out of the hotel, and hit the road just before nine. Stopped for a sit down lunch in Decatur at 12:15. MY DAY: 2 March (Monday) 2009 Got to the Amarillo airport at 6pm. Fueled the rental car. Ate Drove the truck over to SJG at 8am. They had no idea how much dinner. Turned in rental car. Got home at 7:45pm. Petrick called stuff was in it, and couldn’t find a place ot unload it for several at 8pm that he had made it the last ten minutes home. hours. Reviewed the construction plan (and showed them why it ======won't work) and met the contractor (who came up with an incredibly cool NEW plan). They got most of the steel beams put MY DAY: 8 March (Sunday) 2009 up. Picked up rental minivan at airport. Turned in truck in Got to the office at noon after a turkey dinner at Calico County. afternoon. Steve Jackson bought lunch and dinner (THANKS!). EMAIL: Lots of Email (which you’d expect after I’ve been Long conversations about Print On Demand. gone for a week). Somebody cannot log into the BBS (sent to ======Eric). Lots from Jean about Andor (part of PD Feds). Bruce Graw about problems with one of the molds (told him to make a new MY DAY: 3 March (Tuesday) 2009 one). Several starlist requests (I will do over the next few days). Good night's sleep; decent breakfast. Long day's work on the Memos from Mike West about Briefing #2. Mike Sparks sent the jobsite. They got the stairs and steel decking put up, and two alert last Monday. Retail store asking to be on list (will add them walls of the building. Petrick and I played the new SJG Game next update). An artist looking for work (sent form letter). Iron REVOLUTION which hasn't gone to press yet. Long dinner chat Crown about their contracts (will send them Monday). John with Steve J and Monica. Looks like a deal to start doing a few Schneder II about early years minis (will look at this in a few PDF sales and see if it makes money or loses sales. This will go days). Note from Eric that he did work order 399. Somebody very slowly and will start with GURPS 3 material, then with offered to design a game which I have previously announced I GURPS 4. Whether it ever moves into SFB, F&E, or FC is not am going to do myself. Jean sent a link to a cat cartoon (and a known at this time. second one). Notice of a private message on the forum which will ======take me 30 minutes of computer hoop jumping to read. Todd Boyce Kzinti fighter pictures. Purchase order from Esdevium MY DAY: 4 March (Wednesday) 2009 (sent to Leanna). Somebody about defective minis (I will have to Construction at SJ Games continues. They reached a point that I get photos to grasp his problem). Somebody about where to find was more of an interested spectator than an engineering certain Fed commander cards (I will answer later). Somebody consultant about noon, so Petrick and I spent the afternoon wanted to know when the website would be back up but it has reviewing and playtesting some new games that SJG is working not been down this year. Roger Rardain asking if Paul Scott can on. Petrick found a mistake in a game that is going to press in a be in RAT 30 (only if he sent in his articles and Petrick approved couple of days. I found several (and Petrick a few more) in a them). Reports on the Briefing #2 ships I sent out before I left. castle building game, a zombie teddy bear game, and in an INDUSTRY LISTS: Something about burritos at GTS. eskimo game about hunting. Leanna is due at the airport in two Origins and GTS booth buys. Piracy web sites. WOTC issued a hours, and I already have the jacuzzi suite checked in for her. new game system license and nobody will accept it. ======DINO List: Shidaisaurus, Long-necked Stegosaur, Jack MY DAY: 5 March (Thursday) 2009 Horner funds project to genetically engineer a chicken into a dinosaur. Therepod handprints from Utah. Leanna got taken to SJGames for her first visit. Construction was Other: BBs and Forum seem ok. APOD has a nice picture of going very well. Phil Reed took us to see the Alliance warehouse. Europa. (The seven I “missed” are mostly nice too.) Sudoku 3:05. Steve Jackson and his top financial exec took me and Leanna Ann Coulter wasted her entire column insulting somebody named out for lunch (along with Petrick, Monica, and Phil) to discuss Keith Olbermann for no apparent reason. Petrick walked in, how POD impacts accounting. Long drive to the Kyocera dealer reviewed his email, and reported that Paul Scott is not eligible for to discuss POD and how it might work for SJGames. Pizza and RAT 30 and (so far) is not eligible for Origins events. Web crawl playtesting new games. I got to play the evil Santa Claus finished at 3pm. Went home at 3:30pm. munchkin expansion, while Petrick played Castle Builder with ======Steve Jackson himself and played some game about eskimos Robert Saint John of Groknard about PD20m. MY DAY: 9 March (Monday) 2009 Work: Wrote up a playtest report for Steve Jackson on the Got to the new office at 10:30am after trying and failing to get my prototype games we had seen at his office. Did the After Action car to start. (I had to wait until Leanna was ready to go to work.) Report for the Austin trip. Meeting with Petrick to plan his work on Evidence for gregarious behavior and age segregation in Module C3A Andro Threat File. sauropods. Vanessa reported in that she just got married and is Work-Briefing #2: Kzinti CS Fleet, Kzinti CA Fleet, Kzinti CL expecting her fourth child (their first). Jean sent drafts for Vulcan Squadron & Fleet, Kzinti FF squadron & Fleet. and Rigel. BBS is fine. Forum is fine. APOD has a rocket launch; ======saw it on TV. Just wasn’t with it enough to do Sudoku. Finally finished the webcrawl at 1:25pm after checking a pirate site MY DAY: 12 March (Thursday) 2009 menu for our products and not finding any. Starlist UK= EH3 5EU Got to the office at 9:15am. Weather is cold, but the few sent. Old in box reduced to 580 messages and pushed back to traces of snow are burning off quickly. Went home at 6:30pm with 12 June 05. Outbox down to 56. BBS reduction project: worked three boxes of boosters I have to pack tonight so they can ship on April compilation of MY DAY. orders tomorrow. STAFF MEETING: Plans for the week (SVC will work on Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Holzmaden Formation. Industry FCB2, SPP will work on G3A, C3A, and CL39, Leanna and Mike mailing lists: Origins events review process. BBS discussing die will work on orders). Departmental needs (need to order more cutting; the AGW people think anyone who doesn’t accept their dice, set of 9 chairs arrived, window tinting on hold waiting for theory is too stupid to discuss their theory. Forum discussing exhaust fans for print shop, invitation list for open house on the Revision 5 rulebook. APOD has a cool nebula I have never heard 27th, sign company promises proof of front door sign today). of before. Sudoku 3:11, pretty good. Web crawl completed at Discussion of Austin trip (slow movement into PDF sales, 12:39pm. Lunch was disappointing (the weekly turkey special at possible deal on GURPS Feds, possible deal on book chains, J’s). Starlist 03909. Old in box at 560 and back to 6 June 2005. need for new kind of games with four pages of rules). BBS Reduction Project: did the June compilation, sent it to Eric, ======and deleted 36 posts. Work sent to Eric: Instructions to extract ships and scenarios from Communique 5-8. In box at 323 MY DAY: 10 March (Tuesday) 2009 (reduced to 309). Read FYEO for part of 7 Dec. Got to the new office at 9:15. The towing company picked up my Email: Told Peter B that Paul Scott could not play in World Cobalt this morning at 8am; the tow truck driver said Cobalt’s League until he completed his obligations. Leah at PSI about have a chronic problem with the computer system draining the selling into the book trade. Customer Support request from Nick battery for no reason. Forum and BBS are ok. Dino list: Sandberg. Suport request from Gorilla con. Somebody parascapular spines in Tuojiangosaurus. APOD has Orion suggested we do a web page for every single product, which nebula. Sudoku 3:12. Lunch was Taco Salad. Web crawl finished seems a bit much. Sent notice to a webstore to stop stealing our at noon. Communique 39 finished and sent to Eric, who uploaded copyrighted photographs. it. Sent Eric a bunch of stuff for hailing frequencies. Long phone Primary work: Briefing #2: Worked on fixes to the Kzintis I conversation with a company that sells small die cutters. May not did yesterday. work for us (the $4,000 price is cheap, but it only cuts 1/3 of a ======sheet at a time) but could lead to something that will. Reviewed the Hailing Frequency Newsletter and sent Eric a Bazillion MY DAY: 13 March (Black Friday) 2009 changes to it. Eric fixed them and released the newsletter at Got to the office at 9:45. Weather is cold, trying to snow (it 5:20. BBS reduction project: Processed a week of March 08 succeeded at 4pm, but not by much). The heat is not working dayblog. Went to pick up my car at 6pm and had a long dinner (the thermostat is set for 82, but the heater comes on and then meeting with Petrick to discuss die cutting. Ramses went for a turns itself off). Repairman came and replaced a capacitor, which walk in the evening and actually got one paw on Fred’s (the he thinks is what caused previous problems of this type. rabbit’s) rump before Fred exploded and got out of sight. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Edmontosaurus collection ======returned to Standing Rock Sioux. Industry mailing lists: pirate website; gamer documentary. BBS is running ok. Forum MY DAY: 11 March (Wednesday) 2009 discussing variety in minis designs. APOD has a group of Got to the new office at 9:30am. Weather is clear and cold. galaxies. Lunch very good pork at Dyers. Sudoku 3:51. Web Went home at 8pm. crawl completed at 12:22pm. BBS Reduction Project: Compiled Daily Routine: Dino of the day: Scaphognathus. BBS is fine the first half of July Dayblog. Work sent to Eric: add links to alert (after I killed the useless discussion of whether breaking or page (how to subscribe) and hailing frequencies page (how to enforcing rules is really the issue). Forum is fine. APOD has cool subscribe) and index. Computer suffered a major meltdown moon picture. Sudoku 3:38, off my game. Web crawl finished at which made doing actual work impossible. It alternates between 10:53. Industry mailing list: Rick Eddleman pleads guilty to “normal mode” which is “normal” and “screwed up mode” in embezzling $1.5 million from Decipher over nine year period. which every mouse click takes 15-90 seconds to respond. So I BBS reduction project: compiled dayblog May; 42 posts deleted. get two minutes of work done and then have to wait anywhere Lunch: roast beef at Marizons. Sent instructions to Eric to pull the from two to ten minutes for it to decide to go back into normal ships and scenarios out of Comm-1 through Comm-4 and put mode. (This is apparently caused by Mozilla, a browser that Eric them in the resources archive (leaving the original issues intact in talked me into using. Leanna uses it on her older G3 Mac and the separate original archive). Starlist 23662. Old in box is down has no problems. It constantly crashes my newer G4 Mac but I to 570 and back to 9 June 05. Out box holding under 60. In Box had to use it to get to some websites.) is at 316. Kyocera guy (Steve) came over to adjust the girls for Email: The webstore that used our photos agreed to remove better print quality. Leanna and I went to Amarillo Sign Company them. SJG sent me the rules to one of the games we playtested at 2pm to approve the sign for the front door. Read FYEO for 5-6 so I could try to do a Romulan version of it. The guy who had Dec 08. Installed a heater in the back bathroom. Cleaned one ideas for the website had more ideas and questions, which “clutter box” out of Jean’s office. While I did not actually do any resulted in three work orders for Eric. FCOL ship cards, I did copy the FCDK bonus cards to that folder Went home at 8pm, frustrated and angry at the balky and rename the files. computer and my inability to get any work done. Email: Michael Tisdel thanked me for the convention notice ======in Comm-39. Printed out the memo from GAMA that Paul Scott cannot appeal my decision to suspend him from the tournament MY DAY: 14 March (Saturday) 2009 and put it in the Go To Origins file. Answered an Email from Got to the office at 10:20. Weather is not as cold, and the snow that fell in last night’s howling snow storm is all gone. nonsensical design. Forum is fine. APOD has the Tycho Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Australian crocodiles may be supernova remnant. Sudoku 3:38. Web crawl completed at 2pm. ancestor of them all. Lunch was baked tilapia at Dennys. Starlist 65806. Old in box at Email: Jean added Ryan Opel to her RPG team. Ken 550 and back to 3 June 2005. BBS Reduction Project: Did the Burnside asking about die cutting his special thin “box counter” July compilation through the 22nd. Work sent to Eric: Ships and sheets. scenario from Comm-31. In box at 318. Primary work: Due to computer problems, all I Email: Alliance suddenly figured out that they had never accomplished was to extract ships and scenarios from old sent the special order for Galactic Conquest rulebooks and Communiques and give them to Eric to upload. I eventually just ordered 48 of them. went home and took Ramses rabbit hunting. Primary work: Briefing #2. Went home at 7pm. ======MY DAY: 15 March (Sunday) 2009 MY DAY: 18 March (Wednesday) 2009 Stayed home and decompressed. Got to the office at 9:15am. Weather is clear and mild. ======Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Permian-Triassic boundary less well defined than thought. Industry mailing lists: Industry MY DAY, MONDAY, 16 MARCH cycle of store expansion and contraction. BBS is fine. Forum is Got here at 10am. Weather is warm enough and clear. discussing long-range commo in SFU and inventing non-SFU Sick Computer: Doyle was here when I walked in, working stuff for RPGs. APOD has a map of how much light pollution is in on fixing my Mac. Doyle said he had found the problem: Mozilla various areas. Sudoku 3:10. Web crawl completed at 11am. had seriously damaged my second hard disk, wrecking its index Lunch was salad with shredded chicken. Starlist 46205. Old in file. He got the Mac working so I can receive and send emails box down to 540 and back to 3 June 2005. BBS Reduction and browse the web, but I cannot do any actual work on products Project: Finished the July compilation of the dayblog, sent it to (or much of anything) because everything is on the second hard Eric to upload, and deleted 31 old posts. Work sent to Eric: all disk and he took that in for repairs. So, for example, I just got a ships and scenarios from Comm-1-thru-8 (he already has 9-thru- Starlist request, but I cannot process it because the most up to 31). Read FYEO for 7 December. date files are on the drive that Doyle is fixing. I have a working Email: Jean’s reports, and a question on the Hydran PGV. browser, but Leanna accidentally destroyed my bookmark files Later in the day, I got an email from Ryan Opel with a new F&E (after she re-installed and deleted the backups, she accidentally OB document and sent that to Eric to upload. Ryan Opel had overwrote them with a blank file), so I have to hunt for stuff (and updated the ancient universe index (at least partially) and I sent it cannot find anything unless I remember some clue how to hunt to Eric to upload. Petrick asked if I had anything to say about a for it). I never did recover from the last disaster when Leanna tactics article I had read. overwrote the bookmark file, and now this. Lots of links are lost Old Email: (318 pending after morning triage, I will try to do more or less forever. I cannot get into the FC PHP Forum 10 per day): 1-Daniel Melendez about art. 2-Jarett Chaikin starlist because Leanna overwrote the password file (after installing the request. 3-Cathy Welch about paper weight link. 4-Robert Saint backup file and then deleting the backup) and I cannot get the John from startrek-games.com about images. 5-Jean about system to send me the password or accept the old one (but Jean forum login problems. 6-Jean about more forum login problems. managed to get me a working password). Basically, I am wasting 7-Eric about some download issues. 8-Ryan Opel about SFU my time being at the office today, since I cannot really do index. 9-Jean about Cobalt problems. 10-Todd Boyce about anything other than send “sorry, I’ll talk to you when they fix my Romulan fighters. computer” Emails. I have kept my brain busy by doing some of Primary work: Briefing #2. Meeting with Petrick to resolve Eric’s graphic work for him on another machine. Doyle did install the Heavy Fighter mess. I stopped working at 8pm and played Netscape 7 on my computer which goes to the sites that Explorer computer games until I went home. won’t go to and doesn’t crash. ======Industry Mailing lists: Dragons in the basement. Routine stuff: Dinosaur list did not have much today, and MY DAY: 19 March (Turkey Dinner day) 2009 none of it was interesting. APOD had a nice picture of Got to the office at 10:15. Weather is overcast and cool. Deimos. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Heterodontosaurid (Triassic!) Email: Nice note from Steve Jackson thanking me for with protofeathers. Turanoceratops is the first ceratopsid playtesting his games. I sent a note back saying that doing this dinosaur from Asia. Industry mailing lists: Are people who pass had opened my eyes to new kinds of games that the current around E-copies of your games “fans trying to spread the word” market wants to see. Somebody suggested we send stores or “crooks stealing your income”. BBS is discussing some lies dozens of laminated baseball cards advertising our games. somebody posted on Wikipedia. Forum is fine. APOD has a nice Numerous problems here, such as the cost of making them and photo of Saturn and four moons. Sudoku 3:15. Web crawl the (possible) unwillingness of wholesalers to pass them along. completed at 3pm due to interruptions. Made a bunch of phone Work: I spent the day working on Mike’s Mac, pulling ships calls inviting people to the company Open House Party on the and scenarios out of old Communiques to upload as separate 27th. This used up four hours and kept me from getting anything files in the resources area. Eventually, Leanna took me to lunch else done Lunch was the traditional Thursday turkey dinner at at Country Barn, which put me in a better mood. Worked until J’s. Out box has 80 emails, high because many are things for 8:30, then went home to see KINGS on Tivo. Eric to do. BBS Reduction Project: worked on the August ======compilation. Work sent to Eric: ships and scenarios from Communique 32-36. MY DAY, TUESDAY, 17 MARCH Primary work: Briefing #2. Leanna took me to dinner at 5:30 Got here at 9:30am. Weather is warm enough and clear. and then, while at dinner, said we were going home, not back to Sick Computer: Doyle arrived at 10am with the completely the office. I packed 100 booster packs at home. restored hard disk. Other than the damage Leanna accidentally ======caused to my bookmark file when she re-installed the system (which, it turned out, had nothing to do with the problem), MY DAY: 20 March (Friday) 2009 everything is back as it was last Thursday. Got to the office at 9:54. Weather is foggy but ok. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Sinornithomimus. Industry Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Japan's largest single dinosaur mailing lists: WotC Internet Sales Policy. BBS is doing fine fossil discovery. BBS is fine. Forum had nothing I needed to (except that Michael Lui suddenly wants a ship changed to a read. APOD has a stupid picture of some people looking at the sunrise, which is NOT astronomy! Sudoku 3:32. Web crawl Finished August, sent to Eric, deleted 40 posts. completed at 3pm. Lunch was a nice French dip sandwich. Email: Jean’s reports. Email: Jay W from VBAM about getting their book printed. Went home at 5:30pm. Jean’s daily reports. Sample PDF contract from SJG. Tos ======Crawford about G3A and the ICEC. I wrote a blog and Emailed it to Jean. The sign company doing the sign on the door (who are MY DAY: 23 March (Monday) 2009 already three weeks late) called to say they won’t do it today Got to the office at 8:30. Weather is clear and cool. (which was their last promise), so I fired them. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Uproar because somebody is Primary work: The computer suffered a second catastrophic auctioning a bone that just MIGHT be a new genus of sauropod. crash at 3pm and I got nothing else done. Building carpenter list: Industry mailing lists: girls in game design. BBS and Forum are Cut down a pallet to use as a bulk printer paper rack. fine. APOD has a gorgeous photo from the large Magellanic ======cloud. Sudoku 3:18. Web crawl completed at 9:56. Lunch was roast beef at Marizons. Starlist 92020. Out box has 66 emails. MY DAY: 21 March (Saturday) 2009 Old in box down to 460 and back to 26 April 2005. BBS Got to the office at 11am after running errands and having a Reduction Project: did September dayblog archive and deleted huge country breakfast. Weather is quite warm. 30 posts. Work sent to Eric: Upload dayblog archive, add link to First Trip: Doyle arrived shortly after I did, and spent about FC playtest file. Read FYEO for 9-10 Dec 08. Clutter Box an hour rebuilding my computer, replacing the logic board, and reduction project: cleaned out one box from Jean’s office. restoring almost all of the data. However, at 1pm, the power Building carpenter list: Re-scaled the front-door graphic for transformer (on a pole a block away) blew and shut down power Leanna and the new sign company. I did the first step of the for several blocks. A phone call to the power company said we FCDK bonus cards for FCOL. Reviewed the 30x42 posters made would not have electricity until 5pm, so Leanna and I went to from game covers to become new wall art. Phone call from a Walmart, then home. I walked Ramses and took a nap, and got Canadian retailer who could not get the Canadian wholesaler to back to the office at 5pm (the “start” of the normal day’s work). I stock Galactic Conquest. We arranged to send the two copies started the balky Lacie drive copying to the new heavy-duty drive she wants to the wholesaler on consignment. named KANG, but this is going to take most of a week. Email: Jean’s BBS report and meds reminder Somebody Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: new species of Confuciusornis. asked when fantasy & scifi conventions we were going to have a Industry mailing lists: Somebody was doing an article about booth at. Somebody I have been trying to make a deal with for women in the game industry. BBS is fine. Forum is fine. APOD four years reported that he will send an Email in a few days. PD has a map of the sky in gamma rays. Sudoku 3:08, a very good Staff discussing Arcturia’s companion star. My aunt Joyce said time. Web crawl completed at 6:48pm. I did not have lunch as I she would come to the party on Friday. had a huge country breakfast at 10:30am. Starlist request from Old Email: (330 pending after morning triage.) 1-somebody North Carolina rejected as it had no zip code. Out box has 67 trying to contact a playtest group in Houston. 2-Jean’s revision to emails. Old in box down to 470 and back to 27 May 2005. BBS Cygnus file. 3-Origins event contact. 4-Note from Eric about Reduction Project: Worked some on the August 08 compilation. improving certain search engine results. 5-Email from someone Work sent to Eric: Corrections to his work on Commander’s about the party. 6-Mike West staff note. 7. Note from Patrick Circle. Read FYEO for 8 Dec. I spent an hour writing a long Doyle on articles he is writing. 8. Another note about a party memo about a problem that I am going to have to solve. invitation. 9. Jean’s draft of Antares. 10-14. PD memos on Andor. Email: GAMA says that the only list of exhibitors they have 15. Mike West report on Kzinti MidYr POL. 16. Mike West memo posted is for GTS-Vegas, not for Origins, so whoever thought we on Kzinti ship conversions for middle years. 17. Mike West memo were not going to Origins was reading a list for the wrong show. on Gorn ship conversions for middle years. 18. Mike West memo Email from TeamFC about how much Briefing #2 will be delayed. on Tholian ship conversions for middle years. Mike West made another ruling for FC that I have to put into the Stacks Report: Did about half of Communique 40. Sent Reference rulebook. Somebody reported a site with illegal copies Petrick query on more playtest stuff. Sent an update to the of our products, but we knew about it (they’re a foreign company playtest page to Eric. Sent Eric the Kzinti fighter pictures to use in that we’re having trouble shutting down, but should be able to April Hailing Frequencies. Did the Silent Star Fleet contract shut down next week). revisions and mailed it. Stacks Report at 21%. Old Email: (326 pending after morning triage.) I did not work MSSB: Did reports on R9.A2 through the end. I now just lack on any of these as I was mostly transferring files from Lacie to the “alibi” file, items that I had to ask people about. KANG. I don’t want to do any serious work on files on the Lacie Primary work: Briefing #2: Kzinti DF and POL. Sent Kzintis and fairly few have transferred to KANG, and since the system to Staff for checking. Did Gorn DN, CC, CA, CL, DD, FF. Sent files have to transfer first, that means not much real work tonight, Gorns to Staff for checking. Did Tholian C, POL. Sent to staff. but some administrative cleanup. Also, the computer gets Went to Robinson’s for quick dinner. Went home at 8:30pm. “jumpy” when it’s transferring files in the background. ======Primary work: Briefing #2: Sent an email to the staff but did no work on this. I will set the FC folder transferring when I leave MY DAY: 24 March (Tuesday) 2009 at 11pm. Got to the office at 9am. Weather is clear and cool. MSSB: Did Jean’s hard-copy reports on R9.79, capitalize Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Use of literature instead of Gatling, decapitalize Aegis, 82, 83, 84, F&E in italics, 92, hyphen visiting bones to write papers. Industry mailing lists: Article in in mech-link, 97A, 101, 111, 121, A2, F4, PF, PF1, PF2, and N3. WIRED about Settlers of Cataan. BBS ok. Forum ok. APOD has Went home at 11pm. a Mars photo. Sudoku 3:29. Web crawl completed at 9:56am. ======Lunch was steak at Logan’s. Out box has 70 emails. BBS Reduction Project: Did October dayblog compilation, sent it to MY DAY: 22 March (Sunday) 2009 Eric, and deleted 30 posts. Got to the office at 3pm. Weather is overcast but warm. Manual Labor: Worked with Steve Petrick on Operation Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Rich people with private fossil Gulag IV (closing it down and consolidating it with Taylor, the last collections. (This upsets scientists who think they should get all step of the “move”) which took most of the day. the fossils for free, and who point out that if a bone hunter Email: Jean’s reports were all I had in the morning. extracts a fossil and sells it, most of the real scientific data is Primary work: Briefing #2: Orion CA. lost). BBS is fine. Forum is fine. APOD has the death of a ======sungrazer comet. Sudoku 3:14. Web crawl completed at 4pm. Lunch was roast and potatoes at home. BBS Reduction Project: MY DAY: 25 March (Wednesday) 2009 Got to the office at 8:55. Weather is cold, but above freezing. mailing lists: Optimal length for RPG books. BBS is find. Forum Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Triceratops Was A Social had 11 active topics. APOD has a photo of one of the pieces of Animal. Industry mailing lists: Titan Games new store. BBS is fine that asteroid that landed in Sudan. Sudoku 3:17. Web crawl (Smoot-Halley, anyone?). Forum has 11 topics with new posts. completed at 11:38am. Lunch was roast beef and veggies at APOD has Orcus, the anti-Pluto. Sudoku 3:22. Web crawl Furr’s. Starlist had some updates from a guy who got his list last completed at 10:50. Lunch chicken-pasta veggies (Cheddars). week. Out box has 67 emails. Old in box down to 430 and back Starlist 77073. Out box has 65 emails. Old in box down to 450. to 11 April 2005. BBS Reduction Project: did about half of BBS Reduction Project: Did November compilation of dayblog December compilation. and sent to Eric; deleted 30 posts. Work sent to Eric: total rebuild Email: Over 600 in 36 hours, of which all but a dozen were of RPG section. Read FYEO for 11-12 Dec. Clutter Box reduction spam, and that’s just the 600 that came through the filters, which project: Cleaned one more box out of Jean’s office. (These are stopped nearly 3,000. Jean’s daily reports and reminders. FCB2 “clutter boxes” which were full of stuff when in the old building). reports from Tony Thomas. PDFeds discussions by the staff Building carpenter list: Petrick and Mike completed Operation covering Rimworld, Cygnus, and other things. The troublesome Gulag IV without my help. Sent Lyran CF card to FCOL. C7 molds. Gary reported somebody who just happened to be Email: Jean’s BBS report and meds reminder. Lots of using initials similar to one of our products, but we don’t own the Briefing #2 reports. Somebody pointed out (correctly) that the initials. Details of PDF deal with Steve Jackson. RPG part of the website is a total mess so I told Eric to go fix it Primary work: Briefing #2: Did the preliminary work on the without giving him ANY instructions what to do. We’ll see how Lyrans and sent the Lyran DNE to Mike West (since it was a new that works out. Another artist looking for work. Sent a lot of build, i wanted one guy to find all I missed without wasting emails delaying the Open House. everybody’s time). Staff Meeting: Leanna delayed the open house one week Leanna decided we were leaving at 5:30pm. due to an expected show storm. Petrick reported that the Gulag ======was evacuated. Mike had some examples of the new minis shipment. SVC said he expected to release Briefing #2 on 6 MY DAY: 29 March (Sunday) 2009 April. Later follow-up meeting confirmed that all guests had been Got to the office at 10:15am. Weather is clear and cool. contacted and discussed a proposal from a wholesaler to try a Snow (where piled by drifts or snowplows) continues to melt. promotion to get us into more stores. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: What spinosaurus ate. Industry Old Email: (329 pending after morning triage.) Copied the mailing lists: copyright complaints about a website. BBS is ok. FCB2 reports to the file, deleting about 25. Forum has five active topics. APOD has a supernova in a spiral Stacks Report: 29%. galaxy. Sudoku wasn’t working right because the hard disk is Primary work: Briefing #2: Orion SAL, CR, LR. Sent the four trying to index. Web crawl completed at 10:50. Lunch was turkey Orions to the staff. Hydran TEM. dinner at Calico. Out box has 68 emails. BBS Reduction Project: Went home at 8pm. Finished the Dec 08 dayblog compilation and sent it to Eric to ======upload. Read FYEO for 14+15 Dec. Worked with Steve Petrick on the final ship selections for FCB2. MY DAY: 26 March (Thursday) 2009 Email: Jean’s reports. Staff reports on FCB2. Got to the office at 10am (Leanna is sick, and I stayed home Primary work: Briefing #2: Seven Lyran ships, and fixed the until she was ok to leave by herself). Weather is cold and is DNE that Mike West and Petrick reported on; sent Lyrans to staff. scheduled to snow tonight. The sign company came and installed Went home at 7pm. the logo and the window-tinting company replaced the crappy ======blinds with a white window film, and the front door now looks incredibly professional. See the office tour. MY DAY: 30 March (Monday) 2009 Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: How did sauropods get so big? Got to the office at 8:46am. Weather is cool and clear. BBS is fine. Forum has 7 new posts. APOD has a fairly boring Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Coelophysis. Industry mailing star cluster. Sudoku 3:05 (very good). Ann Coulter’s column lists: nothing much. BBS ok. Forum ok. APOD has a mud exposes the dirty little secret: Wall Street is run by Democrats, volcano on Mars -- fascinating. Sudoku 3:01, very good. Web not by Republicans. Web crawl completed at 11:05. Lunch was crawl completed at 9:30. Lunch at Dennys. Read FYEO for 16-17 the turkey special at J’s (as it is every Thursday). Starlist 75061. Dec 08. Worked with Steve Petrick on ship selections for FCB2. Out box has 66 emails. Old in box down to 440 and back to 13 Email: Lots of Emails saying “Free Viagra”; I cannot find this April 2005. BBS Reduction Project: Set up December compilation country on the map. TeamFC is discussing selections for the last but didn’t do much on it. Work sent to Eric: photo tour #3. Read 14 ships in FCB2. Mike West sent Pulsar and Nebula rules for FYEO for 13 Dec. Building maintainance list: Did photo tour #3. FC; Tony Thomas wrote the Black Hole rules. Jean’s usual Mike and Steve Petrick went to Taylor Warehouse to spread reports and reminders. An Email with an idea for a new game. tarps over the inventory before the snowstorm hits and we find Todd Boyce did a revised Klingon fighter. F&E guys wanted a out for the first time if the roof leaks. copy of Fifth Power for Origins. Several Emails with VBAM about Email: Jean’s reports. Team FC reports on Briefing #2. possible game projects. Somebody asked if we sell stands for his old minis. Explained the Primary work: Briefing #2: Lyran BCE, HFF; sent to staff. Cygnus protocol to Jean. Set up the rulebook pages for ships and sent them to the staff. Primary work: Briefing #2: The rest of the Hydrans were Did the four WYN ships. Since they are “new builds” I only sent done and sent to the staff. them to Petrick and West. I left at 6pm so I could be home safely before the bad Went home at 7:30pm. weather is scheduled to hit at 8pm. ======MY DAY: 31 March (Tuesday) 2009 MY DAY: 27 March (Blizzard day) 2009 Got to the office at 9am on the dot. Weather is clear & cool. Stayed home due to the bad weather. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Neoceratodus africanus. ======Industry mailing lists: Dark Tower. BBS ok. Forum has 6 actives. APOD has a gorgeous nebula. Sudoku 3:25. Web crawl MY DAY: 28 March (Saturday) 2009 completed at 9:30am. Lunch was ribs at Country Barn. Starlist Got to the office at 10am. Weather is cold. Snow in drifts up 32955. Out box has 72 emails. Old in box down to 420 and back to two feet deep. Clear skies and no precipitation or wind. to 8 April 2005. BBS Reduction Project: Did the January dayblog Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Ramphoryncus. Industry compilation. Read FYEO for 18 December. I have finally faced the fact that I’m never going to catch up. Tomorrow, I will turkey dinner at J’s.. Starlist 80922. Out box has 72 emails. Old “abandon” the last 100 days and start reading FYEO the day it in box down to 400 and stuck at 8 May of 2005. BBS Reduction arrives. Project: Did the Feb 09 compilation but didn’t delete the on-line Email: Mike West report on WYN ships. An Email about a messages or send it to post as I want to stay 90 days behind. I business deal. An email asking if Star Fleet Assault might be need Jean to find me some other part of the BBS to reduce. done with minis and without hexes. Jean’s daily report. Read FYEO for 2 April and for 20+21 Dec 08. Old Email: (312 pending after morning triage.) Email: Hillarious joke from Jean, along with her usual Primary work: Briefing #2: Finished the four WYNs and sent reports and reminders. FCB2 Reports. Apparently, the nation of them to the staff. Did the Klingon G2 and F5C. Did the Romulan Cialis also needs to be “freed” from something (as I am getting a KE4R and KF5CR. Hydran Saracen and Pegasus. Sent to staff. lot of “Free Cialis” Emails), and there seems to be ethnic Sent staff a memo to pick the last six ships (armed freighters, cleansing going on in the nation of Acai. I told somebody who small aux cruiser and light monitor, Fed OCA and CLH, Klingon wanted a link exchange that I saw no reason for either of us to D6J and F5J, flat-faced Lyran DD and FF, Peladine, Vudar, link to the other’s site. Tholian DPCs, specialty freighters. Did the Mike West report on Stacks Report: 45%. the Middle Years ship list. Posted a notice asking for playtesters for the VBAM book. Went home at 6:15pm to take Ramses hunting. He had a Sent Jean a note about the K20M book. good walk but found nothing to chase. Primary work: Briefing #2: Set up the pagemaker file for the ======front of the book, and inserted the rules section and the (just finished) ship description files. I wrote the “history of the middle MY DAY: 1 April (Fools Day) 2009 years” to set the tone for the book. Got to the office at 8:40. Weather is very cool, overcast. Went home at 6pm and worked on the FCB2 MSC. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Cetiosaurus. Industry mailing ======lists: what retailers want (and why nobody will do products of that type). BBS ok. Forum has 10 actives. APOD has a picture of a MY DAY: 3 April (Open House day) 2009 spacewalk. Sudoku 3:10. Web crawl completed at 9:51. Lunch Got to the office at 9am after picking up fresh flowers for roast beef at Marizon’s. Starlist no requests. Out box has 71 Leanna’s desk. Weather is cool and partly cloudy. emails. Old in box down to 410 and back to 8 April 2005. Read Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Iguanodon. BBS ok. Forum has FYEO for 1 April and 19 Dec. Sent Hydran Fast Cruiser to FCOL. 13 actives. APOD has a silly picture of telescopes. Lunch was a Worked with Steve Petrick on Communique #40. roast beef sandwich at Barnaby’s Beanry. Staff Meeting discussed plans for the party, plans to sell Email: Reports on FCB2. Volunteers to proof VBAM (I need short runs of FC cards (for Briefing #2), and the need to clear up people to actually TEST it). the place. I also asked Petrick to find out where the country of The Open House: Got in here early to work on this, but an Viagra is and who it needs to be “freed” from. old friend showed up (he forgot the party was this afternoon) and Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Staff votes on the final would not take the hint to leave. So nothing got done this six ships for FCB2. Staff reports on FCB2. Lots of email from morning and we’re trying to rush all of the party prep into the two VBAM about some game ideas they have. hours between lunch and the first guests (assuming nobody Old Email: (318 pending after morning triage.) GAMA shows up early). Cookies, brownies, and fruit tray arrived ahead announcements about GTS. (We’re not going.) Email to Tony of time. Picked up ice. Nice party, lots of business people, Thomas about metal juggy and Fed DD engine. friends, and relatives. Went home at 7:30pm. Stacks Report: Gave Comm-40 to Petrick. Told Eric to set ======up April HF. Eric has plenty of web work to do. Art schedule. Gave Eric update instructions on FedCom products list page. Did MY DAY: 4 April (Saturday) 2009 Lyran DW fleet for Hydran Attack. Did Vudar CL Fleet for War & Got to the office at 9:10am. Weather is cool. Peace. In the Master Starship Book, I replaced the Hydran Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Chinese museums are full of bomber diagrams because somebody thought it was just wrong fake fossils. Industry mailing lists: retailers continued to want that they had a number in one box. This took half an hour boxed RPG sets that manufacturers say they cannot afford to because the file keeps crashing and the way WORD does these make. BBS is back to Joe Stevenson being condescending and graphics is just stupid. Stacks report is at 37%. trying to drive out anyone who does not accept his theories. Primary work: Briefing #2: Did the large and small armed Forum 12 active topics. APOD has a photo of a guy looking freighters, which are so far ahead in the voting that even if through a telescope; get real! Sudoku 3:02. Web crawl completed everybody who hasn’t voted yet votes against them, they’ll be in at 9:56. Lunch at Logan’s steakhouse. the final six. Wrote the rules for Middle Years (which were 1/4 Primary work: Briefing #2: Did the MSC and sent it to staff. page). Did the light monitor. Did the small aux cruiser. Collected Did scenario 8B201 and sent it to the staff. Did the Moellmer the last votes. Did the Fed OCL. Did the Fed CLH. Sent the six report and the Sexton report on the first eight pages of FCB2. new ships to Petrick, and when he finished with them, make his Email: Scott Johnson wrote in, asking if we could sell scans fixes and sent them to the staff. or copies of the old pocket game, if we could upload the “This is Communique #40 completed and given to Petrick to read. your ship” posters, and if we had done a computer game. Scott It’s 7pm, and I will go home sometime fairly soon. Stohr about iphone games. I went home at 7pm. ======MY DAY: 2 April (Thursday) 2009 MY DAY: 5 April (Sunday) 2009 Got to the office at 9:30am (green day, one car, Leanna Got to the office at 12:30. Weather is chilly with high winds. doesn’t come in as early as I do). Weather is overcast and chilly. The winds were so bad yesterday that I-40 was closed west of For unknown reasons, all of our computers shut down last night. town and hundreds of trucks were trapped here. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: did stegosaurus have feathers? Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Ruyangosaurus giganteus, a Industry mailing lists: boxed products are expensive but don’t new huge sauropod found in China. Industry mailing lists: mass have to be. BBS is ok except for Joe Stevenson being pendantic. media are starting to realize that a sea change is happening; Forum has 9 actives. APOD has a photograph of a telescope? website content brings and audience, but there is no ad revenue Sudoku 3:36, a little off, but anything under four minutes is good. to speak of, only sales revenue if you have something to sell, so Ann Coulter is on a tear that if Obama can fire the head of GM, print newspapers are doomed and cannot transition to online why doesn’t he fire idiot college professors and incompetent newspapers as there is no way to make money. BBS is fine. school administrators. Web crawl completed at 10:30. Lunch Forum 5 actives. APOD has a sunspot movie that crashed my Mac. Sudoku 3:06. Web crawl completed at 2pm. Lunch was and take Ramses hunting (he did not want to go, perhaps roast pork at Dyers. Out box has 69 emails. Read FYEO for 3-4-5 spooked by dogs barking nearby). April, posted to BBS. ======Email: Jean’s reports, VBAM playtest applicants (most of whom don’t realize that playtesting takes more than one person). MY DAY: 8 April (Wednesday) 2009 Primary work: Briefing #2: Reviewed Jean’s replies to my Got to the office at 8:30am. Weather is cool. replies to her reports. Finished comunique #40 and sent it to the Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: new website by famous dino staff. Went home at 5:30pm. artist Greg Paul http://gspauldino.com/index.html. Industry ======mailing lists: shockwaves of the WOTC PDF thing. Dave Arneson passed away. BBS ok. Forum 13 actives. APOD has a dusty MY DAY: 6 April (Monday) 2009 galaxy. Sudoku 3:33. Web crawl completed at 1:37pm. Lunch Got to the office at 9:45am. Weather is cool and partly very good BBQ at Country Barn. Starlist 13088. Out box has 70 cloudy. The high winds of the last three days are calmer. emails. Read FYEO for 8 April. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: What Pterodactylus Species Email: Mostly FCB2 reports. Apparently, the nation of Viagra are Valid? Industry mailing lists: Aaron Allston heart attack and still yearns to be free. Some email about VBAM supply rules. Got quad-bypass surgery; Dave Arneson hospitalized and the outlook the E23 contract from Steve Jackson Games but I am just too is bad. BBS ok. Forum 10 active. APOD has a photo of the busy to read it today. Discovered that I had set a filter to block expanded space station. Sudoku 3:09. Web crawl completed at some spam with the keyword “aster” and it was deleting all 11am. Lunch: enchiladas at La Fiesta. Starlist 45390. Out box reports on the “master” ship chart, “master” annexes, and so has 70 emails. Old in box down to 390 and back to 24 March forth. A good time was had by all. 2005. Read FYEO for 6 April 09 and 22 Dec 08. Sent Hydran Primary work: Briefing #2: Processing reports, making fixes, Lord Bishop to FCOL. Worked with Steve Petrick on the new getting the book finished. schedule. Staff reports on Communique #40. New schedule: FCB2 will be finished, as will G3A. Looks I read a fiction story somebody sent in (somebody who did possible that C3A will be the SFB origins product. FCHA is still not know I’m a fan of the author whose book he copied word-for- set to be the FC Origins product, but that could shift to FCBOM1 word, changing Chechen to WYN and Russian to Lyran). He (which otherwise will be kicked to after Origins) if we have issues send a second story, copied word-for-word from a World War II getting counters done. FC Booster 91 is probable for Origins. naval history book, with German changed to Klingon. I gave him FCRRB still looks doable but we won’t know until I try to do it. a firm but polite warning that plagiarizing is not cool. Talking to Jean about PDK20M and PDFeds. Good bet that ISC Went to dinner at 6pm (Robinson’s BBQ), then back to work. War gets kicked to after Origins. I won’t know about FedAdm Went home at 11:30pm. (VBAM) until the first playtest round is finished sometime in late ======May. I await news on Star Fleet Battlestations, Silent Star Fleet, and Klingon Armada. We will have minis releases but they’re not MY DAY: 9 April (Thursday) 2009 wrapped up in print counters so ask me later. Got to the office at 9am. Weather is clear and cool. Green Email: Jean’s BBS report. Memo from Jean about the day, one car, so I’ll be leaving early (at 5:30pm). rotating document update list. Michael LeSauvage website Daily Routine: Industry mailing lists: WOTC, Arneson. BBS comments, which took me an hour to turn into a work order for ok. Forum 10 actives. APOD has a photo of Venus in the daytime Eric. Team FC reports on FCB2. Discussed reorganizing the sky. Sudoku 3:24. Ann Coulter rants that laws restricting gun general discussions folder with Jean. Corporate attorney permits are why 14 people died in New York. Web crawl telephoned to discuss a possible future product. completed at 9:44. Lunch J’s, Turkey. Read FYEO for 9 April. Primary work: Briefing #2: I wrote the tactics section and Email: Forbes reports that Amarillo is one of the top five sent it to the staff. Trotman report on first eight pages (everything cities in the US for new jobs and a sub-zero unemployment rate. he reported had already been fixed). Did Scenario 8B203. Did Reports on FCB2. Scenario 8B204. Fixed “of F201-F272” lines on all 144 card- Primary work: Briefing #2: Finished Hydrans at 12:53, sides. Did Scenario 8B205. Did Scenario 8B206. Did scenario Klingons at 2:37, Kzintis at 3:51, (Interruption to do other things) 8B207. Placed all 144 ship card-sides into final format 4:45; Tholians at 5:11. Sent backfeed to staff, copies of ships to pagemaker files. Petrick for final review. Federation Admiral: Selected five groups capable of doing Staff meeting at 5:15 discussed final steps of Briefing #2, the live opponent testing and put them to work. need to print more F&E counters, and PDFeds. Went home at 9pm. Left at 5:30 to go home and meet with the new landscape ======people who are going to try to fix the mess that last year’s landscape people made of my lawn. MY DAY: 7 April (Tuesday) 2009 ======Got to the office at 9:35am. Weather is cool. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Ruyangosaurus giganteus, MY DAY: 10 April (Friday) 2009 Eotitanosuchus olsoni, Thalassodracon. Industry mailing lists: Got to the office at 9:40am after a romantic breakfast with WOTC seems to have gone crazy, suing file sharing sites for Leanna. Weather is cool and partly cloudy. leaking PHB2, shutting down PDF sales because they are too Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: bipedal sauropods. BBS ok. easily pirated and passed around. BBS ok. Forum 14 actives Forum 18 actives (unusually high!). APOD has a photo of the (mostly from one guy). APOD has colliding galaxies. Sudoku space station somebody took in a telescope (that’s not 3:19. Web crawl completed at 10:30. Lunch was a vegetable astronomy!). Sudoku 3:34. Web crawl completed at 10am. Lunch plate at Cheddars. Out box has 68 emails. Work sent to Eric: told at Denny’s. Work sent to Eric: answers to his questions. Read him to finish the Intruder ship uploads. Read FYEO for 7 April. FYEO for 10 April. Sent Hydran Mohawk to FCOL. Email: Apparently, we still need to “Free Viagra” (wherever Email: Shocking news that Senator Stevens of Alaska was that is). I got an Email from the FBI telling me that those rinky-dinked out of his senate seat by false prosecution; I wonder Nigerians wanting to give me money if I will just pay the bank if the Democrats will give the senate seat back? Jean’s reports fees are in fact totally legit and this is risk free. and reminders. Team FC reports on FCB2. Primary work: Briefing #2: Did the Lyrans before lunch Primary work: Briefing #2: Sent the last pages to the staff. (finished at 11am) instead of doing daily chores. Came back from Started plowing through reports. lunch at noon and started on the four Orions, expecting an easy Went home at 6:30pm to do repairs on fence (wind damage) time, but spent over two hours on three ships (and five minutes on the fourth one) because the staff wanted me to add plasma Got to the office at 8:40. Weather is 45° and overcast. arming tracks and other changes necessitated by 5L1. Finished Daily Routine: BBS ok (Somalia). Forum 6 actives. APOD the Orions at 2:40. Took an hour for other things, started on has a stupid picture of “star trails” which ain’t astronomy. Sudoku Romulans at 3:40, finished them sometime, then did the WYNs 3:02 (very fast). Web crawl completed at 9:16am. Lunch grilled which I finished at 5:30. Plan at the moment is to go eat chicken. Starlist 71291. Out box has 61 emails. Old in box down something and then come back and see what Petrick found on to 380 and back to 18 Jan 2005. Work sent to Eric: Updating his checks. Came back after supper and did the changes to the pages. Read FYEO for 11-12-13 April. first 48 ships, then it was 9:30 and I decided to go home and get Email: Nothing much, other than Jean’s daily reports. some sleep. Looked at how little work was left to finish the ship Primary work: Communique #40: Did the revisions from the cards and just went ahead and finished them. staff. Since Mike West noticed that I had repeated the ruling from Did a Star Fleet Alert for Briefing #2 imminent release. #39, I had to go find new rulings and send them to the staff. ======Went home at 6:30pm. MY DAY: 11 April (Saturday) 2009 ======Got to the office at 9:15am. Weather is cool and overcast. MY DAY: 14 April (day) 2009 During the late afternoon, we had a heavy rain and light hail. Got to the office at 9:15am. Weather is cloudy and 57°. (It Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Theropod forelimbs. Industry reached 80°F in mid-afternoon.) mailing lists: PDFs vs hard copies, while retailers hate PDFs, why Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: sauropod blood pressure in game publishers think retailers aren’t trying hard enough to push long necks. BBS is fine; I am writing a new King Stephen edict. THEIR games (as opposed to easy sales like WOTC). BBS has Forum has 11 actives. APOD has a spiral galaxy. Sudoku 3:04. lots of tactics posts. Forum has 13 actives. APOD has an Web crawl completed at 1:51pm. Lunch enchiladas. Starlist no interesting thing; they took a skyline photo (I hate those) and requests. Out box has 65 emails. Old in box down to 370 and overlaid extremely sensitive photos of the same sky segment so back to 18 Jan 2005.. Sent Bengal Tiger to FCOL. you can see the expands of the Orion region nebulae in “real Primary work: got Comm-40 finished and sent to Eric. Sent space” relationships. Sudoku 3:12. Web crawl completed at Eric the April newsletter stuff. Quality checked 600 map panels. 10:05. Lunch pizza. Starlist No requests. Out box has 60 emails. Took Isis and Ramses to vet for annual checkup and shots; Email: Over twenty from the “Free Viagra” campaign. Where they are in excellent health for their age (now 10 years). is this country? Free it from whom? Jean and other FC staffers Went home at 8pm. asked to see some ships again for final checks. ======Primary work: Briefing #2: Sent ships back out to Jean and others to check. Finished the fixes on the MSC. 90% of what MY DAY: 15 April (Tea Party Day) 2009 people found was an “excel glitch” in that what is all in one nice Got to the office at 9:30am. Weather is cloudy and cold cell on the screen in excel is the bottom part of the text (the top (42°F); it probably reached 60°F in the afternoon. On my way in, I part being pushed out of the box into the void) when it goes into stopped at my doctor’s office for my annual blood tests; my pagemaker and the fonts lay out differently. Finished all of the annual physical is in a few days. Petrick is shocked by report “last call” fixes the staff sent in. Leanna decided at 3pm that we from Homeland Security that veterans are now regarded as the would start printing Sunday. For the next few hours, Petrick and I #1 security threat, and Islamic terrorism is no longer a concern. kept checking things, printing new pages, getting emails that had Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: evolution of wings. BBS is fine. corrections (fewer and fewer of those), made the changes and Forum 16 actives. APOD has saturn’s rings. Sudoku 3:02. Web did new pages, sent the staff some stuff to look at. crawl completed at 2pm. Lunch roast beef at Marizon’s. Starlist Took FCB2 home to read at 6pm. no requests. Out box has 66 emails. Work sent to Eric: link fixes, ======page updates, FCB2 Flap stuff. Read FYEO for 14 and 15 April. Went to the Tea Party downtown, and walked back to the MY DAY: 12 April (Easter) 2009 office (1.5 miles) to experience Obama’s plan for the future. Got to the office at 11am. Weather is cool and cloudy. Email: Jean’s reports. The guys doing Savage World want to Daily Routine: Industry mailing lists: Poor GTS attendance know when we’ll “announce” the product (when they finish it). I expected; GAMA is going to lose a ton of money. BBS fine; the did, however, find their contracts and sign them. captain was rescued from the pirates. Forum has 19 active Primary work: Briefing #2 FLAP list. QCed another 400 map topics. APOD has a star cluster. Web crawl completed at panels. Went home about 7:30pm. 6:30pm. Lunch was all you can eat BBQ (only in Texas do we ======celebrate Easter this way). Wrote a couple of blogs and send them to Jean to proofread and send to Steve Petrick. MY DAY: 16 April (Thursday) 2009 Email: Got three dozen emails saying “Viagra is Free!” so Got to the office at 9:45am after a romantic breakfast with maybe they were able to overflow the dictator and liberate the Leanna. Green day (one car). Weather is cool and overcast; it country? Lots of last second FCB2 reports, mostly checking or was 70 at 2pm, 60 at 4pm, and raining cats and dogs at 5pm. tweeking fixes we made yesterday. Petrick called in with onion poisoning and was late getting here. Primary work: Briefing #2: Did all of the reports from Jean, The annual insurance inspection went well. Mike West, and Art Trotman. I have only 300 marks from reading Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Somebody pled guilty to taking the book last night, 90% of which are just sliding stuff around on dino bones out of federal land. Industry mailing lists: Retailer the ship cards to look pretty. I did find a typo even Jean had not relations. BBS is ok. Forum has 19 actives. APOD has a time- found. I showed Art Trotman why his reports were wrong and the wasting photo of a castle (not astronomy). Sudoku 3:13. Ann probes were not in error, and he quickly found two other probes Coulter’s column on Tea Parties is hilarious (and sad, since she that WERE wrong! Continuous process of checking changes, points out that Obama is trying to do to the US what the Dems running new pages, and checking again. We finally finished at did to California, with probably the same results). Web crawl 3:30 (well, we ran out of things we knew were wrong), burned the completed at 11:24. Lunch was hot dogs at the Miller Paper PDF, and started printing, then checking the proofs. This book Open House (which took up most of the afternoon but resulted in just will not print on Vala at all (bad moire patterns), but the other a carload of freebies and some new warehouse management two are churning out books. ideas). Starlist no requests. Out box has 76 emails (a flurry of Went home at 7pm. work orders for Eric). Old in box down to 360 and back to 17 Jan ======2005. Email: Jean’s usual reports and reminders. Rick Smith MY DAY: 13 April (Briefing #2 Day) 2009 wanted a job doing FC ship cards, but the real work is in making fixes based on staff reports and there is no way he could do usual this morning. Albert Julbe offered to do a Spanish those without my taking more time to check his work than just to translation of Cadet Training Handbook if we’d allow it; I told him do it; Pity. to go ahead and to email me a PDF to post on the website. Scott Leanna and I left at 5:30pm to go to the home show to get Johnson sent in a freighter SSD for the Cadet Training ideas for her new bathroom. Home show was closed due to the Handbook, so I told Eric to upload it. Jay Waschak’s weekly rain storm, which also knocked out power at our house for an report on Fed Admiral, his discussion over complexity issues with hour. During that time, Jean called in a panic that the two houses playtesters, and his update on iPhone games. Scott Johnson had next to where she lives (both owned by her ex-boyfriend) had some questions about old games. Somebody in the UK wanted a been burned down by arsonists. This may be related to the copy of Battlewagon. people Jean confronted who were looting one of the houses Old Email: (345 pending after morning triage.) earlier Thursday. Stacks Report: 16%. ======Primary work: Did the revisions to FCRRB. I finished Chapter 1 at 4pm, but then had to do Jean’s changes which kind MY DAY: 17 April (Friday) 2009 of brought the project to a crashing halt. It was 6pm when I Got to the office at 9:15am. Weather is overcast and cool. finished making Jean’s changes to the first 10 pages (most of Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Triceratops as a waddling cow. which were written before Jean came on the scene). Finished Industry mailing lists: Aaron Allston is recovering from his heart chapter 2 (page 22) at 6:30, and Jean’s reports 45 minutes later. attack. GTS attendance down 20%. BBS ok. Forum has 17 Went home at 7:30 to see what the landscapers did to the actives (and remains very active); I set up a poll for PDF sales. yard. APOD has a page from an old book. Sudoku 3:34. Web crawl ======completed at 11:01. Lunch pork chops at Logan’s. Out box has 75 emails. Worked with Steve Petrick on Battle Group for CL39. MY DAY: 21 April (Tuesday) 2009 Email: Hernan Ruiz Camauer wants to do a computer Got to the office at 8:45am. Weather is clear and cool. version of Valkenburg Castle and Asteroid Zero-Four (I said Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Big Abelisauroid from Spain. “deal!” and “Do you want to talk about SFU products?”) Jay Industry mailing lists: A report from GTS says it was worse than Wasach wants to use FedComm counters for an Iphone chess reported, with retail attendance down by half and exhibitors about game. Schneder about minis. Andrew Granger had password the same. Many who have supported GTS are, for the first time, issues on the forum (sent to Jean and Eric). saying it’s too expensive for what you get. I strongly suspect we Primary work: Did the final update list for the RRB. will not be going to GTS-2010. BBS ok. Forum 11. APOD has a Leanna and I left at 5:30 to go to the home show. global warming map (which is NOT astronomy!). Sudoku 3:26. ======Web crawl completed at (9:47. Lunch roast beef sandwich at Barnaby’s. Starlist No requests. Out box has 76 emails. Old in MY DAY: 18 April (Saturday) 2009 box down to 320. Read FYEO for 17-18-19 April. Got to the office at 10am. Weather is ok. Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Another artist porfolio. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Abelisauroid. Industry mailing Old Email: (320 pending after morning triage.) lists: GTS attendance down but positive feelings. BBS ok. Forum Stacks Report: 19%. 11 active. APOD has a star forming region. Sudoku 3:21. Web Primary work: Did not get to work on FCRRB due to being crawl completed at 2:20. Lunch balanced meal at Furr’s. Starlist ouf of the office most of the afternoon. I did the “intern 43447. Out box has 74 emails. Old in box down to 340 and back evaluations and counseling statements” for Eric, so he can get an to 17 Jan 2005. Read FYEO for 16 April. Worked with Steve “A” on the “course credit” he gets for being an intern. Petrick on battleforce. Interesting phone call from a local RPG Annual Physical: I’m in better shape than last year. Blood player who has invented a new RPG and wants us to publish it. sugar and blood pressure, lab work (A1C, cholesterol, etc.) are Email: Notified by Brooms and Books in Parrish Florida all within the normal range. I haven’t lost any weight but my closed. Jean’s reports and reminders. Heard from Jean that she stamina has improved. had rented a storage place so she could start the process of Went home at 7pm. moving. Email from Hernan Ruiz Camauer about the ======computerized version of Valkenburg Castle. Primary work: FC Reference Rulebook. Rounded up all of MY DAY: 22 April (Wednesday) 2009 the errata from Comm-37/41 and inserted it into FCRB. Got to the office at 9am. Weather is 68°F with thin whispy Went home (or at least quit working) about7pm. clouds. I’ve heard enough of the Miss USA controversy. (I ======support her but this has had enough air time.) I tore a muscle in my side working in the garden Tuesday night and it hurt all day. MY DAY: 19 April (Sunday) 2009 Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: New fossils provide clues to I came in for a couple of hours to declutter my desk and tyrannosaur/ornithomimid evolution. Industry mailing lists: clean out my Email bins. companies that have disappeared. BBS ok. Forum 18 active ======topics. APOD has a sky panorama I can see for myself (time- MY DAY: 20 April (Monday) 2009 wasting filler). Sudoku 3:13. Web crawl completed at 9:39. Lunch was a balanced meal at Furr’s. Starlist 13501. Out box has 77 Got to the office at 9:30. Weather is 59°F with thin whispy emails. Read FYEO for 20 April. clouds; reached 70°F by 1pm. Today is the birthday of my late Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. (She reminds me younger brother. He is still missed; Mike could use the help in the every day to take my meds, which is why my blood test reports warehouse. Ruben Bacca, who has designed a new RPG (based were so good.) on some d20 stuff) stopped by for a visit (he lives in Amarillo). Primary work: Did another 20 pages of FCRRB. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: atmospheric oxygen levels. Went home at 7:30pm. Industry mailing lists: discount rates by large and small ======companies. Hasbro profits dropped 47% in first quarter. BBS is fine. Forum has only 7 actives? After two days? APOD has a MY DAY: 23 April (Thursday) 2009 photo of sand dunes on Mars. Sudoku 3:09 (pretty good). Web Got to the office at 9:25am. Weather is 63F with a few high crawl completed at 12:58. Lunch chicken strips at Applebys. whispy clouds. The torn muscle still hurts. Starlist no requests. Out box has 75 emails. Old in box down to Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Staurikosaurus. Industry 330. mailing lists: Amazon Marketplace. BBS ok. Forum never got Email: I didn’t count, but it seemed like more spam than there. APOD has a Cosmic bubble (not much to look at, but an interesting thing). Web crawl was never completed. Lunch was a ======turkey dinner at J’s. Email: George Ebersole sent some kind of note which made MY DAY: 28 April (Tuesday) 2009 no sense (what’s new?). Jean’s reports and reminders. Got to the office at 7:50am. Weather is foggy and 50F. Primary work: I focused all day on the FCRRB, doing all of Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: was the Chixalub impact my work (except black holes). I still lack Jean’s reports (about 300,000 years before the last dino died? BBS ok. Forum has 12 twice as much work as my own) and “Mike West’s alibis” (things I actives. APOD has a very nice galaxy. Sudoku 3:26. Web crawl sent back to him, and his revisions to the PPD). completed at 9:45am. Lunch: Barnaby’s Beanry. West home at 8pm. Email: That Pavel fellow from Australia wanting help getting ======his new games into the US Market. I connected Pavel to two big shot industry marketing and distribution experts. MY DAY: 24 April (Friday) 2009 Primary work: Hollowed out FCRB4 to make FCRB5. Spent Got to the office at 9am. Weather is clear and warm. It two hours on the phone with Jean fixing errors in the first 3/4 of reached about 90F during the afternoon. the FCRRB. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Paleocene dinosaurs of ojo Had a meeting with some guys who want me to invest in alamo sandstone (after the asteroid impact, the study is disputed starting a local newspaper. They have a great idea, but frankly I and hotly so). Industry mailing lists: Amazon marketplace, PDFs have little or no confidence in their ability to run it and don’t want vs retailers. BBS is fine, I guess. Forum had 38 active topics to end up running it myself, although if I did, I’d probably make (high, even for two or three days). APOD has a worthless sky more money than I do in SFU. picture. Sudoku 3:06. Web crawl completed at 3:48pm. Lunch: Went home at 9:30pm. enchiladas at La Fiesta. Starlist 94063. Out box has 100 emails. ======Email: Reports on FCRRB alibi items. Sent Email to Alliance about cover art. Sent Email to Trafton about F&E counters. MY DAY: 29 April (Wednesday) 2009 Primary work: Edited the Tony Thomas draft of the FC Got to the office at 9am. Weather is 65F and overcast. Black Hole rule (due for Hydran Attack, it will be in the FCRRB) Daily Routine: Dinosaur list Largest pterosaurs. Industry and sent it to the staff. Worked on FCRRB until 9pm, went home. mailing lists: nothing much. BBS is lively. Forum has 15 actives. ======APOD has the oldest explosion ever recorded. Sudoku 3:09. Web crawl completed at 12:47pm. Lunch: enchiladas. Out box MY DAY: 25 April (Saturday) 2009 has 69 emails. Got to the office at 9:15am. Weather is 68F and windy. Primary work: Made all of Petrick’s changes to FCRRB. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: not much. Industry mailing lists: Made all of Jean’s changes. That pretty much killed the day. nothing. BBS ok. Forum 18 actives. Stopped working at 9pm but didn’t go home until after midnight. Primary work: Finally finished the FCRRB and sent PDFs to ======Jean and a few others for final checks. ======MY DAY: 30 April (Thursday) 2009 Got to the office at 9:30am. Weather is 65F and calm. MY DAY: 26 April (Sunday) 2009 Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: dinos surviving Chixalub. BBS Came in for a couple of hours to clear the spam out. ok. Forum has 11 actives. APOD has a boring picture of the ======moon and some clouds. Sudoku 3:28. Web crawl completed at 2pm. Lunch: Turkey at J’s. Out box has 78 emails. MY DAY: 27 April (Monday) 2009 Email: Lotsa stuff about FCRRB. I didn’t read anything else. Got to the office at 8:20am. Weather is clear and chilled, Primary work: Worked with Steve Petrick, Jean Sexton, about 50F during the morning drive. Since it was 90F yesterday Mike West, and Art Trotman on final fixes to FCRRB. and Saturday, I wore shorts and a thin shirt, and had to call Diabetic eye exam (Dr Munden) gave a clean report. Leanna to bring me warmer clothes. Spent an hour on the phone with Jean doing the FCKB5 Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: didn’t get one. Industry mailing rulebook. Went home at 8pm. lists: didn’t see one. BBS ok. Forum has 18 actives. APOD has a ======moon of Saturn disrupting rings. Sudoku 3:05. Web crawl completed at 2:45. Lunch: Denny’s. Starlist 47401. Out box has MY DAY: 1 May (Friday) 2009 133 emails (I cut this down to 67). Old in box down to 310 and Got to the office at 8am. Weather is 63F and foggy. back to 6 Dec 2004 (finished all 2005!!!). Clutter Building Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Proteins from hadrosaur. carpenter list: talked to contractor about exhaust fans over Industry mailing lists: Hasbro/Discover Channel deal. BBS ok. shrinkwrap machine. Forum has 13 actives. APOD has a sky photo, but at least it has Email: Will McCameron offering to do F5W and HF5 minis (I a meteor. Lunch: Steak at Logan’s. Out box has 72 emails. told him to do them). Jean’s daily reports and reminders. Don Email: John Sickels about fiction. Jean, with some items to Treglia, an artist looking for work. My aunt invited Leanna and me fix in FCKB5. Hydran Attack cover from Adam Turner. to Saturday supper. Note to Ted Fay: There isn’t going to be any MSSB work this Old Email: (349 pending after morning triage.) Emailed week due to the need to do new editions of all fourteen FC Pavel Kyrel with answers to his request for advice on publishing rulebooks so we can ship them next week. his game. (At least he talked to me before he hauled off and Primary work: FCRRB is printing. I did the final fixes on printed 5,000 of them!) Klingon Border R5 and gave it to Leanna, who wisely “forgot” to Primary work: Continued alibi fixes and last-second fixes on print it (waiting for another fix). I did the new edition of FC Klingon FCRRB. Capped “sideslip mode”. Copied that rule about Attack Five and sent it to Jean and Petrick. I got Jean’s reports batteries and prearming from the photons into the PPD, Hellbore, (and Petrick’s reports) on FC Romulan Border Five, so it’s and Ion Cannon. Sub-pulse wording in black hole rules. Added finished except for “moving the art around. Went home at 8pm. Sideslip Mode and Speed Zero to Cap Guide. Did global change ======of “sideslip” to “slither” in FCRRB. Resolved contradiction in Ion Cannon rule for FCRRB. Inserted the new 4J6 ISC rear torpedo MY DAY: 2 May (Saturday) 2009 rule. Did the “blank” rulebook for FCKB5, rewrote and Got to the office at 10am. Weather is 50F and overcast. renumbered the scenarios, and sent PDFs to Jean. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Nothing much. Industry mailing Left at 6pm to go to our favorite BBQ place only to find out it lists: Nothing much. BBS ok. Forum has 19 actives. APOD has a was closed. Went home in disgust and microwaved something. galaxy. Lunch: pork chop at Texas Roadhouse. Primary work: Talked to Jean first thing. Did the Klingon Attack rulebook fixes (hers and Petrick’s) which generated some and needs to be a solid color. We have a lot on the cart with bad minor typo fixes to Klingon Border and Reference Rulebook. I did backgrounds (and I cannot get budget authority to replace them) the replacement pages and sent those to Leanna, then sent the but the boss lady says no more of those. Told Jonathan Klingon Attack book to Leanna (both booklet and loose leaf). I did Thompson we would set him up to sell our games at conventions. the final work on Romulan Border and gave that to Leanna at Ken Burnside had some marketing ideas. 2pm. Then I did my updates, fixes, and edits (and imported the Primary work: Did the Romulan Space rulebook. Did rules pages from the Reference Rulebook) for Line of Battle and Petrick’s fixes to the Tholian Attack book and sent it to Jean. sent that to Petrick and Jean at 2:45. and to Battleships Attack Went home about 6pm since I came in Leanna’s car (green and sent that to Petrick at Jean at 3:35. The later books require day) and didn’t want to spend the night down here. less work on my part as they are closer to the “current” standard. ======Did the two half-pages that change for Klingon Space and Romulan Space and sent those to Jean. MY DAY: 6 May (Wednesday) 2009 Left at 4:45 for a family dinner, and didn’t get back until 8:40, Got to the office at 8am. Weather is 55F and overcast. and it’s getting dark, so I went home. I took half an hour to sort three boxes of loot from the trade ======show into categories (scratch pads, pens, sticky notes, business cards and advertising, keychains and knick-knacks) so we could MY DAY: 3 May (Sunday) 2009 decide what to keep, what to throw out, and what to take to the Got to the office at 1:20pm. Weather is overcast and 50F. Wolf Sanctuary when we go there. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Size of Neoceratodus Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Syntarsus. Industry mailing africanus. Industry mailing lists: not much. BBS ok. Forum has 16 lists: new kindle able to read PDFs. BBS is ok. Forum has 7 actives. APOD has the fascinating eskimo nebula. Sudoku 3:30. actives. APOD has a night sky picture I could have seen for Web crawl completed at 2pm. Lunch: turkey at Furrs. Out box myself in my back yard. Sudoku 3:22. Web crawl completed at has 79 emails. 9:38am. Lunch: TGIFriday’s. Out box has 65 emails. Primary work: Called Jean and got reports on Battleships Email: That guy doing Valkenburg Castle had rules Attack (which I finished and gave to Leanna) and on Romulan questions (about a game I haven’t read in 20 years!). Space and Klingon Space. I got Romulan Attack finished and Primary work: Got Jean’s report on Tholian Attack Rev 5 sent it to Jean. Went home about 7pm. rulebook. Did the Booster zero revision 5 rulebook and gave it to ======Petrick and got his report on it. Went home at 9pm. MY DAY: 4 May (Monday) 2009 ======Got to the office at 9am. Weather is overcast. MY DAY: 7 May (Thursday) 2009 Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Aquatic spinosaurs. BBS ok. Got to the office at 9am. Weather is 70F. Forum has 7 actives. APOD has a photo of Mercury showing Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: tracks in Iran. Industry mailing unusual iron deposits. Sudoku 3:25. Web crawl completed at lists: Kindle, iPhone games. BBS ok. Forum has 10 actives. 9:40. Lunch: BBQ at Country Barn. Starlist 84041. Out box has APOD has a beautiful purple nebula. Sudoku 3:26. Ann Coulter 68 emails. on media lies (no Japanese were prosecuted for “waterboarding” Email: Back in 2007, some guy claiming his name is Jor-el after WWII; they did something else with water). Web crawl Schroeder (sounds kind of “super-fishy” to me) sent in a game completed at 10:24. Lunch: Turkey at J’s. Starlist 93710. Out box idea. We told him it wouldn’t work and we were not interested. has 67 emails. Old in box down to 30. Worked with Steve Petrick Today, he sent an email complaining that we had stolen his idea on FC books. and published it. To prove this, he sent the shopping cart blurb Email: Paul Franz about EGH. from ... F&E (which was published in 1986, 21 years before he Primary work: Made Petrick’s fixes to Booster Zero and sent in his “concept”). Sheesh. emailed the PDF to Jean. Made the PDs for Tholian Attack R5 Primary work: Did tholian attack rules and gave them to and sent them to Leanna. Did the ship selections for Comm-41. Petrick to review. Finished Jean and Petrick’s fixes to Romulan Went home at 7pm to do yardwork & watch Grey’s Anatomy. Attack and gave it to Leanna. Went home at 7pm as it was the ======birthday party for Isis (all you can eat shrimp). ======MY DAY: 8 May (Friday) 2009 Got to the office at 8am. Weather is 62F, overcast, windy. MY DAY: 5 May (Picnic Day) 2009 Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: dinos drying in morning sun. Got to the office at 9:20am after a romantic breakfast with Industry mailing lists: Kindle DX. BBS unusually large number of Leanna at McDonald’s. Weather is 55F and overcast. items for me to answer. Forum has 7 actives. APOD has the Today is the day of the annual company picnic. This is a Perseus galaxy cluster. Sudoku 3:22. Web crawl completed at local B-to-B trade show called The Business Connection where 8:57. Lunch: I microwaved a TV dinner at home. Out box has 70 we collection a year’s supply of free office supplies and a month’s emails. Old in box down to 289 and back to 6 Dec 2004. Work supply of free chocolate. We were gone much of the day. sent to Eric: May newsletter. Read FYEO for 22-23 April. Somebody phoned in and talked to Eric, saying our website Email: Some scenarios for Comm-41. didn’t work and it was our fault and the problem was on our end Primary work: Missed much of the day going home to talk and he knew lots of people who got disconnected every time Eric to the landscapers and standing there in 85F while giving them updated the site. (Eric and I both found this doubtful, but if instructions (they seemed to need supervision). Came back to anybody is having trouble getting to the site let us know. Feel the office for a little and then got dragged to see some movie. free to call on Tuesday or Thursday afternoons and ask Eric to Got back at 7pm, got Jean’s reports on FCDK5 and FCBZ5. call you back. Eric was able to do something with a reflection(?) Went home at 8pm. which proved it was his problem, not ours.) ======Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Beishanlong grandis. Industry mailing lists: source for poker chips. BBS ok. Forum has 10 MY DAY: 9 May (Saturday) 2009 actives. APOD has a picture of Saturn’s rings and moons. Got to the office at 9am. Weather is 60F and overcast. Mike Sudoku 3:07. Web crawl completed at 4:22pm. Lunch: Roast is in already, binding books for Monday mail order shipments. beef sandwich at Barnaby’s. Starlist 14027. Out box has 66 Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Vultures. Industry mailing lists: emails. Old in box down to 305 and back to 6 Dec 2004. Kindle, short-run cards. BBS ok. Forum has 15 actives. APOD Email: I had to tell Jeremy Gray that I could not use any of has a sky picture with constellation overlays; guys, I saw that in his shopping cart photos because the background was disrupting an astronomy book when I was 7. Sudoku 3:05, very good! Web crawl completed at 9:44. Lunch: Chicken Fried Steak at J’s. end.) A bunch of Eric’s reports and work orders. Somebody Starlist 96130. Out box has 65 emails. Old in box down to 280. about a possible line of minis that could be used for PD. Email: Mike West on the plans to complete the Rev-5 Primary work: Finished Communique 41 and sent the PDF project. Jean’s daily reports and reminders. to Eric to upload. Reviewed the Hailing frequencies newsletter Old Email: (391 pending after morning triage.) and had Jean and Petrick review it. Talked to Eric about the Primary work: Since I had already done the final fixes for problems John Hacker is having with our website. FCDK5, I spun up the PDFs and put them on Leanna’s hard disk Die Cutting Crisis: This consumed most of the day. Lots of at 10:21am. Same story for FCBZ5, which was on her hard disk Emails about die cutting from helpful people in other companies. at 10:24am. I made the final tweeks to bring FCOA5 up to Colvin-Friedman said they know what wargames are, and do not FCRRB5 standards, and put those PDFs on Leanna’s hard disk want to do them. Called Cartamundi; Tom who is working up a at 11am. Back from lunch, I finished copy-and-paste for FCKS5 quote. Mailed samples to Paragon for quote. Called J&M Printing and put that on Leanna’s hard disk at 12:26pm. Did the draft and left voicemail. Sent Email to MMP asking for a referral. contract for the Valkenburg Castle computer game. I did Comm- Exhausted from the time on the phone, I went home at 6pm 41 and sent it to the staff. I worked with Eric on the newsletter. to pack more boosters for Mike. Went home at 7pm and packed paperclip bags until Midnight. ======MY DAY: 13 May (Wednesday) 2009 MY DAY: 10 May (Mother’s Day) 2009 Got to the office at 8:10. Weather is 68F and overcast. Got to the office at 4pm. Weather is 72F and overcast. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Cretaceous Fossil Leaves Cleaned the spam out of my Email. Jean had a lousy Saturday Found in Wisconsin, Kinnareemimus khonkaenensis (Ostrich and I sent her best wishes for a better Sunday. Dinosaur list had Dino from Thailand). Industry mailing lists: two publishers seem nothing of note. BBS is ok. Forum has 16 active topics. APOD to have died. BBS ok. Forum has 10 actives. APOD has a picture has M31 Andromeda! Went home about 6:30 with the laptop so of the space shuttle on the launch pad (which is NOT we could watch the episode of Survivor that Tivo messed up. astronomy!). Sudoku 3:54, seriously off my game. Web crawl ======completed at 9:52. Lunch: pork chops at Logans. Out box has 70 emails. Work sent to Eric: create page for cadet training MY DAY: 11 May (Monday) 2009 handbook. Read FYEO for 25 April. Got to the office at 8:30am. Weather is 50F and overcast; it Email: Ricky Wallace about art. My cousin and aunt about rained overnight and everything is still wet. the family lunch tomorrow. Paul Stone about that crazy idea I had Daily Routine: Industry mailing lists: Kindle. BBS ok. Forum for a revolutionary edition of SFB. Scott Johnson about the cadet has 9 actives. APOD has a map of meteor shower origins. game (which he still loves). Todd Boyce about fighter minis (the Sudoku 3:40, a little off my game. Web crawl completed at first ones did not cast and he’s doing them over). 9:09am. Lunch: enchiladas. Starlist 47802. Out box has 71 Primary work: Worked with Eric to get the newsletter emails. Old in box down to 270 and back to 29 Sept 2004. Work finished and sent out. sent to Eric: stuff for newsletter. Sent WYN CA to FCOL. Die Cutting Crisis: MMP sent me their die cutter’s phone Email: Made an effort to drive down the number of number. Somebody sent me an email address for HMSGRD so I unanswered/unfiled incoming emails. Origins says we have booth asked them for info on their die cutter. Polymancer said they can 116 (same place as always). Ruben Bacca said he’s almost done do them; I asked for info and sent them specifications. Spent with his RPG book having been delayed by a family emergency. most of the day on phone calls and emails to die cutters. Talked My australian friend Pavel about his efforts to get into the US with Ken and Scott at Final Sword after the die cutter they were market. Ricky Wallace about his star trek art. Reports on on going to use looked at my job and said “I don’t want to do this”. Comm-41: Art Trotman, Scott Moellmer, Mike West. Jim Got sick at 4pm and laid down for an hour, then Leanna took Roysdon about running GPD events at Gencon. Sent Loren me home. Apparently onion or pepper poisoning at lunch. Knight some art he wanted for a project. Replied to an email from ======Greater Games Catalog about the updated listing. Updated Capitalization Guide with something Jean wanted. MY DAY: 14 May (Thursday) 2009 Primary work: Mostly tried to compile an up-to-date “to do” Got to the office at 9:30am. Weather is 65F and overcast, list now that the great dragon of FC5 has been slain. Finished trying to rain. Note: I went home very sick last night but am ok. Comm-41 so Eric can upload it tomorrow. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Protorosauria. Industry mailing Die Cutting Crisis: I talked with Paragon and sent email to lists: origins booths. BBS ok. Forum has 11 actives. APOD has a Delano and another to Colvin-Friedman. nebula with a neutron star (good stuff). Sudoku 3:29. Ann Coulter Went home at 6pm and packed booster packs until midnight. on Miss California and on media people who all parrot the party ======line rather than actual thought (otherwise they would not have jobs in the media). Web crawl completed at 1:18pm. Lunch: BBQ MY DAY: 12 May (Tuesday) 2009 at country barn with most of my relatives. Starlist One guy who Got to the office at 8:25am. Weather is 55F, overcast, rain. would not give his information but wanted everybody else’s (not Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Dino eggs & babies. Industry sent). Out box has 68 emails. Old in box down to 250 and back to mailing lists: Origins booths. BBS a little fiesty. Forum has 11 28 June 2004. actives. APOD has a picture of CLOUDS? Sudoku 3:10. Web Email: A guy wanted to run OPL events sponsored by his crawl completed at 9:18am. Lunch: roast beef at Marizon’s. store at a game convention (sure, go ahead, but give us the store Starlist 98118. Out box has 73 emails. Old in box down to 260 address and we’ll mail the prize cards there). Another guy and back to 23 Aug 2004. Read FYEO for 24 April. wanted us to arrange a demo for his store in Charlotte North Email: Another game company wants us to print 500 copies Carolina. Stephen Crutchfield about what kind of counters are in of their new 240-page RPG book (three days of maximum book FC products (sent him links to website photos). production by our entire plant). Jean’s daily reports and Primary work: Spoke with Mike Raper about getting an reminders. Jay Wasack about Federation Admiral. Andro Terminator mini made. Confirmed that GGIC had our Visitors: Bobby Harris from Miller Paper stopped by. (They catalog page done correctly. Finished reviewing the e23 contract provide ziplock bags and some of our paper.) It feels strange to and sent it back to SJG. Wrote two blogs for Jean to use since be treated as a grown-up business. Virgil Van Camp, who printed Petrick is getting cranky about having to do all of the blogs. the first TFG games, stopped by to discuss a non-gaming Wroked with Eric to finish the Cadet Page and Art Gallery #2. business deal that he and I have been asked to invest in. Die Cutting Crisis: Played phone tag with MPS for most of Old Email: (366 pending after morning triage, 327 at day’s the day. Talked with Paragon extensively; they’re not sure they can do them in time for Origins and cannot understand why we Email: Loren Knight about fiction stories. Chuck Strong don’t just have them do the boxes, maps, and rulebooks at the reports that Origins will run fine without Joe Stevenson. A bunch same time. Talked with Ken Burnside about doing jobs together of F&E Q&A from Mike Curtis. Note from our lawyer not to at some point in the future. No word from Cartamunde or publish the Garth Getgen story “timelines” for fear of getting Polymancer. sued. Went home at 6:30 (after the staff meeting) to pack boosters. Old Email: Digging through the old 2004 Emails, I sent Tony ======Thomas a note about an old story idea, and wrote up proposals board rejections for two ships Les Leblanc sent in. MY DAY: 15 May (Friday) 2009 Primary work: I had to go do the E2 cover over again to Got to the office at 7:50am. Weather is 70F. The sky looks work on the Kyoceras. We ran out of the original printing but with clear but there are thin hazy clouds around the horizon. POD that is no longer an issue. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Triassic pterosaurs. Industry Die Cutting Crisis: Talked with Trafton about getting our mailing lists: Amazon’s move into publishging. BBS ok. Forum dies from the die cutter in Dallas who doesn’t want to do the work has 18 actives. APOD has a very nice nebula. Sudoku 3:20. Web any more. Sent formal quote requests to MPS, Polymancer, crawl completed at 10:05. Lunch: KFC. Out box has 68 emails. Cartamundi, Paragon, and the guys in China. Email: Eric says he’s taking the day off. Somebody asked a Went home at 6pm, still not feeling well from last night. d20 question that I sent to Jean. Our lawyer discussed something ======that’s going on. Somebody had an SFB question about the drone racks on the C6 and I sent it to Petrick. Loren Knight with a story MY DAY: 19 May (Tuesday) 2009 idea that won’t work. Hernan Ruiz Camauer about the Got to the office at 9am. Weather is 65F and clear. Valkenburg Castle project. Stephen Crutchfield about Booster 91. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: artist copyrights. Industry Primary work: did the ad for Origins. Worked on CL39. mailing lists: Getting RPGs mentioned on paranormal radio Reviewed three fiction stories without finding one I could use. shows. BBS ok, answered EGH questions. Forum has 21(!) (The writers are as desperate as I am and are sending me what’s actives. APOD has a beautiful photo in the direction of the galaxy laying around the hard disk, which is stuff that was never going to center. Sudoku 3:22. Web crawl completed at 10:55. Lunch: work but just maybe might...) Read several stories in the file to enchiladas. Out box has 63 emails. Old in box down to 230 and see if I could solve the fatal flaws in one of them. back to 31 May 2004. Work sent to Eric: New PD page. Die Cutting Crisis: Polymancer promises a quote on Email: GAMA says we have to have badge requests in by Monday. Talked with MPS (didn’t like what I heard but it may be the 25th, so I need to know who is going. workable anyway; they’re sending samples). Primary work: CL39. Went home at 7pm and packed boosters. Die Cutting Crisis: MPS says they have an existing die we ======can use which does 280 not 216 counters. The F&E guys will go crazy, but let’s wait to see what the cost per sheet is. Paragon MY DAY: 16 May (Saturday) 2009 says we aren’t buying enough to deal with them. Got to the office at 9am, left at 11am. Weather is 55F and Went home at 7pm and packed boosters. overcast, we had a pretty good rain about 10am. ======Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Triassic pterosaurs. Industry mailing lists: Amazon enters publishing. BBS flamewar caused by MY DAY: 20 May (Wednesday) 2009 Joe Stevenson. APOD has a photo of the hubble and Atlantis. Got to the office at 9:30am. Weather is 65F, thin high clouds. Primary work: Actually, I took almost the entire day off to I have a fever of 102.6F and am only marginally functional. recharge my batteries at a friend’s birthday party, where his Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Giraffe necks, Baryonyx. unusual collection of friends see each other once a year, and all Industry mailing lists: endorsements of RPGs. BBS ok. Forum have interesting things to say. I feel much better, renewed. has 20 actives. APOD has a photo from the Hubble mission. Web ======crawl completed at 10:33. Lunch: malt (what I usually have when sick). Out box has 63 emails. Read FYEO for 27 April. MY DAY: 17 May (Sunday) 2009 Die Cutting Crisis: Got a quote from MPS that is VERY Got to the office at 2:50pm. Weather is 77F and sunny. reasonable and we’ll be staying in the “games with counters” Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Cenozoic birds similar to dinos. business. Waiting for other quotes, but this quote is the one for Industry mailing lists: Amazon. BBS continues to have problems 280-counters per sheet (not 216) so the F&E guys can start caused by Joe Stevenson and today the company simply salivating. reached the end of its patience and tolerance and had no choice I spent more of the day on the sofa than I did at my desk. but to ban him for life. While I regard this as a failure in our Leanna finally took me home sometime (not sure when). collective two-year effort to get Joe to act like an adult, I also ======regard it as a personal betrayal of the trust I placed it him to resolve his issues and master his demons. Forum has 22 actives. MY DAY: 21 May (Thursday) 2009 APOD has a Saturnian moon with a huge crater. Lunch: Leanna Got to the office at 9:45am. Weather is 68F. I am still running cooked hamburgers. Worked with Steve Petrick on the Joe a fever but seem to be semi-functional. Spent about half of the Stevenson case. Went home at 6pm. day at my desk and the other half asleep. ======Daily Routine: Industry mailing lists: Scribd and pirate books. BBS ok. Forum has 16 actives. APOD has a beautiful MY DAY: 18 May (Monday) 2009 nebula. Sudoku I am not going there when foggy. Web crawl Got to the office at 9:45am after being sick most of the night. completed at 11am. Lunch Turkey at J’s. Starlist 70503. Out box Weather is 65F and cloudy. Listened to more reports of has 55 emails. Old in box down to 220 and back to 29 May 2004. Pelosigate on the way in; how that woman stays in office after all Read FYEO for 28-30 April. of her lies is beyond me. Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Got a note from GAMA Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Protorosauria, artistic that they want the Origins judge list by Monday. Leanna reports coyrights. Industry mailing lists: Amazon publishing. BBS ok we have sold out of F&E until the new counters arrive, which (EGH discussions). Forum has 19 actives. APOD has a stupid could be anywhere from 6-18 weeks. Mike “packed out” the last skyline that is NOT astronomy. Sudoku 3:46, off my game. Web of the zocchi glow-in-the-dark ships and put the few leftover CAs crawl completed at 10:32. Lunch: Chicken-fried steak at J’s. and DNs on the cart. Marc Mihalik about the denver convention Starlist 95503. Out box has 60 emails. Old in box down to 240 in September. Ryan Opel sent in the new F&E OB and I sent it to and back to 8 June 2004. Read FYEO for 26 April. Eric to upload. (Eric is off today taking care of his sick mother.) Steve Jackson about e23 contract and about whether it’s better before, so what?) and yesterday (when I was home) had a to have five people doing one job or one person doing five jobs. nebula (really good!). Sudoku 3:29, not bad. Web crawl Primary work: Too foggy from fever to do much real work, completed at 1:17. Lunch was baked fish and tomatoes. Starlist but I did post several days of FYEO and take a couple of long UK-Leicester. Out box has 60 emails. Old in box down to 200 naps. Finished negotiating the Valkenburg Contract. and back to 27 May 2004. Read FYEO for 3 and 4 May. Steve Die cutting crisis: Still waiting for three of the five quotes. Petrick is sick and (on my strong advice) stayed home. Possible problem with the quote we liked in that the samples they Email: Bruce Graw got the C5 mold and will put it into sent are VERY thin, but they might be 24 point not 48 point. (We production ASAP. An artist who did a cover for TFG 20 years ago have previously used 52 point, so 48 wouldn’t even be noticeable sent me a file that won’t open. Eric reported in on his mother’s but 24 point would be too thin. situation (he was out most of last week taking care of her) and Spent a lot of the day asleep. Leanna took me home said he’d be in Tuesday. sometime after 5pm. Die Cutting Crisis: Got the quotes from China, which were ======not as good as Illinois. Or maybe better. I cannot tell from the data I was given. More data requested. MY DAY: 22 May (Friday) 2009 End: Leanna wanted to go home at 3pm, but I did not, so Got to the office at 3pm after being sick all night and all she agreed to go run errands and do some shopping while I morning. Weather is out there, I’m sure, but I didn’t pay attention. worked. She came back at 4:30pm and took me home to rest. I spent most of the time asleep and went home at 7pm. ======Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Coelophysis. Industry mailing lists: booth locations. BBS ok. Forum has 23 active topics. APOD MY DAY: 26 May (Tuesday) 2009 has a dark nebula. Web crawl completed at 4:25. Lunch skipped, Got to the office at 8:45am. Weather is 65F and partly too sick. Out box has 56 emails. Old in box down to 210. Read cloudy. (We just don’t have clouds very often, yet it seems we FYEO for 1 May. have had them almost every day this year. Global Clouding?) I Email: Hernan with the missing data for the Valkenburg feel better, no fever, BP is good, no nausea, good night’s sleep. Contract. Origins badges. Grafton sent some hillarious Petrick is still sick, but we had to wake him up to find out if he photoshop art. was dead or alive. Wake up, SPP, it’s time for your nap! ======Daily Routine: BBS ok (at least until they read what I said about CL39). Forum has 16 actives. APOD has a whirlpool MY DAY: 23 May (Saturday) 2009 galaxy. Web crawl completed at 1pm. Lunch turkey at Furr’s. Out Got to the office at 11am. Weather is 78F with a few box has 60 emails. Old in box down to 190 and back to 20 May scattered puffy clouds. I am still running a fever and unable to 2004. Work sent to Eric: new PD pages. keep solid food down (or liquid food “in”). Email: Loren Knight about fiction. SWA about EGH. Adam Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: 100 years of Tyrannosaurus Turner with booster 91 art. Ken about an Origins badge. Alan rex. Industry mailing lists: online books. BBS ok. Forum has 17 Day about Tholian minis. Randy Green, who might or might not active topics. APOD has a 40-year-old astronauts on the moon have fiction ready barely in time (a possible backup). photo, big whoppie. Web crawl completed at 12:14. Lunch malt. Primary work: Reviewed a story idea that Jeff Wile sent in Read FYEO for 2 May. during May 2004 and sent it back with notes. (At the time, I told After about an hour of being more or less effective, I took a him to wait for us to print PDFED before resubmitting, but I think nap and Leanna eventually book me home. we have enough data for him to work on it.) At 11pm Saturday night, after a hot bath, I passed out and Die Cutting Crisis: Talked with MPS and said we’d have a fell, injuring my head. Leanna got me up and into my chair. My job for them in July or August. blood pressure had crashed to 85/48 and my temperature to 97. Went home at 7pm. Under Leanna’s watchful eye, I watched some TV and drank ======some fluids and my blood pressure eventually reached 98. I went to bed wondering what was going on. MY DAY: 27 May (Wednesday) 2009 ======Got to the office at 9am. Weather is 65F. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: cargo cult science. Industry MY DAY: 24 May (Sunday) 2009 mailing lists: Twitter. BBS fine. Forum has 15 active topics. I woke up feeling much better and ate some toast. My blood APOD has volcanoes on Mercury. Lunch salad with chicken. Out pressure was up to 107, my temperature normal. I rested at box has 59 emails. Worked with Steve Petrick on origins plans. home all day, eating soft food, and felt much better. Primary work: Mostly, I worked on a CL39 fiction story. Jean was emailing me long distance diagnoses based on Email: Loren about fiction. Went home at 11pm. anything I said which she could look up in a book. She found a ======14-syllable disease I might have. Well, we cannot have that! I googled “head injury” and “danger” and wrote up the top five MY DAY: 28 May (Thursday) 2009 danger signs into an upbeat Email about how much better I was Got to the office at 8:55am. Weather is 66F and clear. feeling. Things like “I am sure the vision will return to my left eye Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Upright Sauropod Necks. soon” and discussions of how big the area on my forehead was Industry mailing lists: Twitter. BBS ok. Forum has 13 active where Leanna could feel bone fragments moving in and out. topics. APOD has a stupid skyline photo. Sudoku 3:16. Web Jean fell for it hook, line, and sinker. Jean has sworn revenge for crawl completed at 1:12. Ann Coulter explained that “emphathy” this. only counts if its for liberal causes; I had been so confused Lunch Did not take BP meds and got the best night’s sleep in two turkey at J’s. Out box has 58 emails. Old in box down to 180 and years. back to 17 May 2004. BBS Reduction Project: Jean put Howard ======Bampton in charge of the BBS map since I wouldn’t do it. Worked with Steve Petrick on CL39. MY DAY: 25 May (Memorial Day) 2009 Primary work: Mostly, I worked on a CL39 fiction story. Got to the office at 10:15. Weather is partly cloudy and 71F. I ======feel pretty good, but have no stamina. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Eoaratrosaurus digitatus (the MY DAY: 29 May (Friday) 2009 ultimate missing link, but the paper has only be issued in Spanish Got to the office at 8:40. Weather is cool and clear. Leanna so far). BBS ok. Forum has 31 active topics, one of which had a has the crud I had, and won’t be in today, so no orders will ship. cool new product idea. APOD has a picture of Hubble (see it Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Permian extinction (volcano?). BBS is ok. Jason Gray lied again, and I warned him that my haven’t even read yet). Jean’s working on Klingon 20M. patience with his “spin” is at an end. Forum has 16 active topics. Somebody who owns one of those UPS Store things bought a APOD has a spiral galaxy. Sudoku 3:37. Web crawl completed at booth at Origins so he can ship your purchases home for you. 10:50. Lunch skipped. Out box has 58 emails. Worked with Steve Somebody from Switzerland (with an email address in China) Petrick on heavy superiority fighter SSDs for CL#39. Industry says I won a lottery I don’t remember entering. They need my mailing lists: Mythopoeic awards. bank account number to send the $27 million. I gotta remember Primary work: CL39 story. to send that to them when I finish the CL39 story. ======Primary work: CL39 story (Tippett). Went home at 9pm. MY DAY: 30 May (Saturday) 2009 ======Got to the office at 8:45am. Weather is 70F and clear skies. MY DAY: 3 June (Wednesday) 2009 Daily Routine: BBS ok. Forum has 15 active topics. Industry Got to the office at 9am. Weather is 65F and cloudy. mailing lists: time to market. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: new abelisauroid from late Primary work: CL39 story. All day. Went nowhere. Cretaceous Patagonia. BBS ok. Forum has 21 active topics. ======APOD has a painting of a big planet around Van Biesbroeck's star -- fascinating! Sudoku 3:19. Web crawl completed at 9:51am. MY DAY: 31 May (Sunday) 2009 Lunch: steak at Logan’s. Starlist no requests. Out box has 56 Got to the office sometime in the afternoon. Cleaned up emails. Work sent to Eric: lego links for newsletter. Read FYEO email and spent an hour watching Youtube on Eric’s computer. for 7 May. Worked with Steve Petrick on Tippett story. Industry APOD has a nice sun picture. Went home. Did not stay all that mailing lists: Origins, Twitter. long due to Leanna still being sick. Email: Jean’s daily reports and reminders. ======Primary work: CL39 story finished and given to Petrick. MY DAY: 1 June (Monday) 2009 ======Got to the office at 9am. Weather is 70F and overcast. MY DAY: 4 June (Thursday) 2009 Leanna made it to work for the first time since Thursday. Got to the office at 9:20. Weather is clear and cool. Obama Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Ida, earliest monkey. BBS ok. is on his third World Apology Tour, throwing the US military and Forum 20 active topics. APOD has a Mars photo; Spirit seems to intelligence services under the bus on foreign soil, vindicating 7 be stuck. Sudoku 3:47, off my game. Web crawl completed years of al Qaeda lies about US “torture”, and oh by the way, 10:19. Lunch: salad + grilled chicken. Starlist 80909. Out box has reversing the US policy of refusing to deal with terrorists. Sheesh. 58 emails. Old in box down to 170 and back to 26 April 2004. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Alioramus. BBS ok. Forum has Worked with Steve Petrick on CL39 Tippett story. He says he can 19 active topics. APOD has sunspots. Sudoku 3:15. Ann Coulter give me a list of fixes. Industry mailing lists: Minis Bases. exposed more liberal hypocrisy. Web crawl completed at 10:34. Email: Chris Curlee looking for a starfield map. (I don’t Lunch: Turkey at J’s. Out box has 58 emails. Old in box down to know; if anybody knows of good ones, let me know.) Michael 140 and back to 9 April 2004. Read FYEO for 8-9-10 May. Grafton tried to write some vortex rules, I’ll read them after Industry mailing lists: Origins, Amazon vs Google ebooks. Origins. Stephen Boyle wanting to list his British store. Jonathan Email: Tactical note that should have gone to Petrick. Rennick asked if he could buy a PDF of the rulebook (no, at least Question on FC tournaments sent to MF/SPP. Jean’s reports. not yet). Fred Werenich sent in a one-page story; I read it and Primary work: Sent the Booster 91 cards (Origins release) gave it to Petrick. Allan Nickerson about using FC ship cards in to the staff for final checks. Sent memo to staff on FC HA bonus SFB. Jason Gray wanted to “buy” the rights to run tournament cards. Did FC card for Hydran LM. Did Squadron card for WPBB. SFB including the right to do new ships and rules. Is this guy nuts Origins Prep: Talked with Trafton about printing schedule. or just so totally ignorant of the way things work he thinks that Staff meeting about origins release product work schedule. could ever happen? Sheesh. I am not grasping the concept of Had to go home at 6pm since Leanna and I are in one car. why he thinks that could happen? (It’s nothing against him ======personally. Anybody with this idea would get the same polite but firm “no” for an answer.) Somebody from another company wants MY DAY: 5 June (Friday) 2009 a deal to do their own d20 stuff for SFU, and that isn’t allowed by Got to the office at 9am. Weather is 70F, high whispy clouds. Paramount. I said I’d talk about us publishing his stuff if he Leanna is sick again today, so I ran home at lunch to take her a wanted, or doing a joint venture. malt and the newspaper, and went home earlier than I wanted to Primary work: CL39. so I could take care of her. ======Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: somebody broke into a museum and stole a Brontosaurus skull off of the skeleton. MY DAY: 2 June (Tuesday) 2009 Chilantaisaurus maortuensis, a new theropod from the “missing”: Got to the office at 10:05am. I am late because Leanna did sixty million years of asian cretacous history. Industry mailing not want to drive while sick, but wanted to come in and do orders, lists: Origins. BBS ok. Forum 22. APOD has a dust cloud. and she gets up later than I do. Weather is 70F and overcast. My Sudoku 3:28. Web crawl completed at 10:48. Lunch: turkey at diet is going well and I have lost 11 pounds in three weeks. Furr’s. Out box has 58 emails. Old in box down to 110 and back Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: some guy who stole some to 9 April 2004. Read FYEO for 11-12 May. Petrick showed up fossils got 60 days in jail. Industry mailing lists: Origins. BBS is this morning with some salty puffy snack things and we worked ok. Forum has 20 active topics. APOD has spokes in Saturn’s on that all day. rings. Sudoku 3:19, that’s more like it. Web crawl completed at Email: The usual. Jean’s reports. Adam says he will have 11:29. Lunch: Vegetable plate at Calico. Starlist: no requests on the CL39 cover done by Monday. Chuck sent something about file. Out box has 58 emails. Old in box down to 160 and back to ISC production costs that I need to read carefully. 14 April 2004. Read FYEO for 5+6 May. Worked with Steve Primary work: Read Carney’s Iridani story, sent him some Petrick on tippett story for CL39. Took Leanna home at 3pm as tips on more effective writing, and gave it to Petrick to read. Got she was too sick to stay at her desk. She got 15 orders out, but the main story finished, put into pagemaker, and sent to the artist left 25 to do tomorrow. Eric did not come in (he hasn’t been here and to Jean. Chuck called and we discussed plans for F&E. for several days) due to his mother’s ill health. Read and signed the e23 contract so we can start selling PDFs, Email: That British store admitted they were web only, so no but I don’t k now when I’ll have time to upload some. Read the listing for them. Flatcon wanted convention stuff. Mike Bennett ISC memo Chuck Strong wanted me to read and told him to go wanted to know where I’d use a scenario he sent in (that I ahead and make the PDD cost what he said. Origins Prep: Talked with Rick Loomis. GAMA is trying to sheet layouts. sell “second booth at half price” but I don’t have any real need for Origins Prep: Went through the list of things to do. We the extra space. They’re kind of desperate as the number of normally do this May 1st, but we were busy. Fortunately, we’ve booths they sold is much less than last year. They moved the done this so many times that we know the list, and the only exhibitors to a smaller room (C instead of D) and even so, they things that had to be done before now have already been done have lots of empty booths. (without consulting the list). Went home at 7pm. Went home at 6:30 when Leanna called and told me what to ======bring her for supper. ======MY DAY: 10 June (Wednesday) 2009 Got to the office at 8:30. Weather is 72F and cloudy, some MY DAY: 6 June (D-Day) 2009 raid. By noon, it had dropped to 60F and was raining a lot. Steve Got to the office at 11am. Weather is 85F. I was late Stewart, an architect whose office is a block down the street, because power was out at the house and I could not get the stopped in to say hello. Packed boosters at home this morning. garage door to open. Leanna is better and worked the afternoon. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: uproar over some press Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: movie reviews. Industry mailing release that is not supported by the peer-reviewed paper; I lists: OGL. BBS ok. Forum 18. APOD has a single-armed spiral couldn’t make heads or tails of it. Industry mailing lists: copyrights galaxy. Sudoku 3:14. Web crawl completed at 2:03pm. Lunch: and pirates. BBS ok. Forum 19. APOD has a nebula. Sudoku sandwich at Barnaby’s. Out box has 50 emails. Old in box down 3:30. Web crawl completed at 9:37. Lunch: enchiladas, La Fiesta. to 100 and back to 23 March 2004. Read FYEO for 13 May. Starlist no requests. Out box has 54 emails. Old in box down to Email: Mike Sparks sent a restock to AOG for kit bash 70 and back to 17 Dec 2003. Work sent to Eric: Cover for CL39 packs. Staff reports on ship cards going to press next week. and booster packs. Read FYEO for 16-17-18 May. Worked with Primary work: I worked on CL39 some. I did the Klingon Steve Petrick on CL39. D5WL, Lyran NCC, and Hydran IRQF for boosters 25-26-27 and Email: Jean’s reports. GAMA sent some vendor stuff for sent them to the FC staff. I went home about 7pm. origins. Quotes from Trafton. Origins voucher thing. ======Primary work: Did Communique #42, had Petrick read it, make his fixes, sent this to the staff. Final fixes to ship cards MY DAY: 7 June (Sunday) 2009 before they go to press. Worked on CL39 and posted status Got to the office at 1:20. Weather is 80F and clear. I feel chart; we are 46% finished. fine, Leanna is fine (and at home), Petrick is here (but sick). Origins Prep: Petrick got the radios ready and put them in Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Appalachiosaurus Arms. the “to go” box. Figured out where I put the atlas and put it in the Industry mailing lists: Creative writing. BBS ok. Forum 14. APOD “to go” box. Printed tournament tree forms; gave to Petrick. has an eight-year-old asteroid picture. Sudoku 3:15. Web crawl Went home at 7pm. completed at 2pm. Lunch: roast and potatoes, home cooked. Out ======box has 51 emails. Old in box down to 90 and back to 30 Jan 2004. Read FYEO for 14-15 May. MY DAY: 11 June (Thursday) 2009 Email: Staff reports on FC cards. Jean’s reports & reminder. Got to the office at 8:20am. Weather is 62F and clear. Steve Mostly here to clear up my email and desk, I went home at 5. Stewart, the architect down the street, came by to introduce us to ======his lovely assistant Adrienne. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Morrison troodontid. Industry MY DAY: 8 June (Monday) 2009 mailing lists: Origins. BBS ok. Forum 17. APOD has clouds? Got to the office at 9:45am (overslept). Weather is partly Sudoku 3:05, very good. Ann Coulter explains the dangerous cloudy and 65F. Petrick and Leanna both here. delusions and multitudinous factual errors of Obama’s Cairo Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Appalachiosaurus Arms. BBS apology speach to Islam. Web crawl completed at 9:03am. ok. Forum 19. APOD has a gas cloud around a black hole. Web Lunch: Turkey at J’s. Starlist no requests. Out box has 55 emails. crawl completed at 11. Lunch: pork chop and logan’s; they’re Old in box down to 60 and back to 11 Nov 2003. Read FYEO for having a Monday special that saves $6. Out box has 51 emails. 19-20 May. Worked with Steve Petrick on CL39. Email: staff reports on ship cards. Somebody asking about Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. PD20M Feds. Jay Wasack about meeting at Origins to discuss Primary work: Sent a note to Dynaverse asking for their Fed admiral. Bruce Graw about kit bash pack production. article. Hunted down the 17 pages of CL39 stuff Jean proofread Primary work: Spent the entire day getting the 16 ship when she was here and marked all over, so she doesn’t have to cards ready for print, staff reports, so forth. Went home at 8pm. read it again. Petrick gave me the first five of the SSDs and I sent ======them to Jean and Petrick sent them to a staffer to check. I MY DAY: 9 June (Tuesday) 2009 worked on the WHY file, FINALLY producing that page (and a page of CL40) after three hours of aggravating toil. I graded Got to the office at 8:08am. Weather is 70F, whispy clouds. whatever term papers, tactical notes, and command notes Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: dinos with or without beaks. needed a fifth grading judge. I sent the F&E Tacnote pages to Industry mailing lists: Swedish pirates. BBS ok. Forum 19. APOD Jean. Petrick gave me the five heavy superiority fighter SSDs he has a chain of galaxies. Sudoku 3:47, off my game. Web crawl has done so far and I sent them to Jean and he sent them to the completed at 10:02am. Lunch: salad bar at Gatti’s. Starlist staff. Shucks, I didn’t even keep track of everything I did. I sent 44125. Out box has 51 emails. Old in box down to 80 and back to Jean the librarian story, the plausible deniability story, and the 13 Jan 2004. Work sent to Eric: FC tactics for newsletter. Read fighter development page. Pushed CL39 from 46% complete to Worked with Steve Petrick on FC tactics. 53.75% complete. At this pace (which we cannot sustain) we’ll be Email: Jean’s reports. Adam sent in the CL39 art. Gary done in six more days. I figure it will really take about nine more. Carney sent in an article. Jean finished the CL39 story. Jim Hart Went home at 8pm. sent in a FOG article. ======Primary work: Finished the Valkenburg Contract and sent it to Hernan Ruiz Camauer for signature. Reports on ship cards MY DAY: 12 June (Friday) 2009 from Mike West, Mike Filsinger, Jean Sexton were processed. Got to the office at 9am. Weather is 68F partly cloudy. Figured out which booster and which squadron box the HA ships Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: transitional dinosaurs. BBS ok. were going into. Wrote an Ask Uncle Ardak FC article for CL39. Forum 17. APOD has a supernova remnant. Sudoku 3:06 (my Went through the forum cleaning out FC tactics topics and new strategy is working well). Web crawl completed at 10:25. sending a bunch of them to Petrick. Did the Booster card press Lunch: BBQ at Country Barn, where we heard that our favorite waitress had been fired. Starlist 77581. Out box has 54 emails. Lego Gorns. APOD has a dark nebula. Sudoku 3:55, a horrible Old in box down to 50 and back to 30 Oct 2003. BBS Reduction score; I’m stressed out. Web crawl completed at 1pm. Lunch: Project: I cleaned out the WHY topic yesterday. Read FYEO for baked fish and veggies at Furr’s. Starlist no requests. Out box 21-22-23 May. Worked with Steve Petrick on CL39. Industry has 57 emails. Old in box down to 35 and back to 15 Oct 2003. mailing lists: UK P2P piracy. Work sent to Eric: Newsletter. Worked with Steve Petrick on Email: Jean read three pages of CL39. CL39. Industry mailing lists: artists don’t like Work For Hire. Primary work: CL39: Petrick gave me the last three heavy Email: AoG sent the latest minis restock. Lots of CL39 superiority fighter squadrons, so I put them in the book and sent reports. them to Jean (3). Did command notes (1) and sent that to Jean Primary work-CL39: I did the Galactic Conquest article and (4). Did Petrick’s energy monster article (4) and sent that to Jean sent it to Jean (1) and John Berg. I did the SFBOL, FCOL, (8). I wrote the Anarchist article and sent it to Petrick. I did Jason’ PBEM, and Fog of War articles. I sent Jean the FC OL/EM page Gray’s victory article, which was surprisingly entertaining. That (1) and the FC Intro page (1) meaning (3) pages sent to her so put another 5.5 pages into the finished column since Jean and far. I lost two pages previously sent to her when the SFBPBEM Petrick had already read and blessed it. Did the two pages of article was two pages too long (but good stuff worth publishing, it SFB term papers (15.5) and sent them to Jean (10). I finished up displaced some Growler pages). I sent five pages of venues to the FCEY pages (2) and sent them to the staff and Jean (12), Jean at 2pm, bringing the total to 8 today (and 102 total). which means out of 8.25 pages to be done each day, I have now Finished the ship cards for FCEY, make Petrick’s fixes, and sent done today and tomorrow. Petrick and I did the Fed fighter article them to Jean and the FC staff (12). I did the three FC scenarios (2) and sent it to Jean (14) bring us to (19.5). Did the two pages and had Petrick read them and sent them to Jean (14). I did the of ship descriptions and MSC (16 to Jean, 21.5 done today). news pages and sent them to Jean (16). I lack 10 pages to be I finally went home, tired but happy, at 7pm. sent to Jean, only three of which are difficult. I am 42 pages ======ahead of Jean; she better start making progress! I went home at 7pm with a stack of stuff to read and mark. MY DAY: 13 June (Saturday) 2009 ======Got to the office at 8am. Weather is 65F and overcast. Daily Routine: Industry mailing lists: Origins. BBS ok. MY DAY: 16 June (Tuesday) 2009 Forum has 3 active topics (after we clamped down on frivolous Got to the office at 8:20. Weather is 70F and clear. clutter posts). APOD has a fantasy milky way. Sudoku 3:32. Web Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Ichthyosaur Genera. Industry crawl completed at 1pm. Lunch: BBQ at Cattle Call #2. Out box mailing lists: paying artists, running a responsible company. BBS has 54 emails. Old in box down to 40 and back to 15 Oct 2003. calm. Forum has 18 active topics. APOD has a stupid skyline Work sent to Eric: CL39 back cover. Read FYEO for xxx. Worked photo. Sudoku 3:09, much better. Web crawl completed at 9:38. with Steve Petrick on CL39 scenarios. Lunch: Salmon at Logan’s. Starlist 77581. Out box has 52 Email: A friend sent the answer to the question “Just where emails. Old in box down to 20 and back to 30 Sept 2003. Worked is the nation of Viagra that we must work to free?” Leanna came with Steve Petrick on CL39. to report that, for the first time in company history, a star trek Email: Jead did a ton of pages last night. Let’s see... 13, 1, movie seems to have caused a spike in sales (50% or more 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2 = 23 pages (she lacks 19, plus the 10 I haven’t increases in sales in May for FC, SFB, and SFBF compared to done). Loren Knight did the Growler art (breathtaking). the average monthly sales Jan-April). Primary work-CL39: Thanks to Jean’s overnight efforts, we Primary work-CL39: I made Petrick’s changes to the moved from 78% to 82% finished before I even got here! I did the Anarchist article and sent it to Jean (0.5). I made Petrick’s Lyran BCE. I did the SFBF page. I did the F&E Intro page. All of changes to the F&E SIT (0.5) and sent that to Jean (1) and the those (3) were sent to Jean. I did the F&E Q&A pages and had staff. Did the campaign update (3.5) and sent that to Jean (4.5). Petrick read them, but did not send them out due to time Did the After action page two pages of FC tactics and sent them element. Also did the awards page and sent that to Petrick. to Petrick, who fixed them, so I sent them to Jean (7.5). Did five I had to leave at 6pm to attend a meeting of home owners in pages of battleforce and sent them to Jean (12.5). my housing development and put a stop to something stupid. Primary work-Comm42: Did this and sent it to Eric, who ======uploaded it. We also worked on the newsletter. Origins Prep: I worked up a preliminary list of books Leanna MY DAY: 17 June (Wednesday) 2009 and Mike are going to have to print so they could get that out of Got to the office at 10am after being up most of the night. the way. Weather is 85F and clear. One week from today, I’ll wake up in I went home at 6pm, but I took a clipboard full of scenarios to Indiana and have lunch at Charley’s at Origins. Major read (Petrick found plenty of “front of the book” ones) and boxes thunderstorm in the afternoon, rattled the whole building. of parts to pack card games for Origins and other sales. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: University of Wyoming closing ======dino museum due to budget cuts. BBS ok. Forum has 25(!) active topics. APOD has M13 star cluster. Sudoku 3:30, off my game. MY DAY: 14 June (Sunday) 2009 Web crawl completed at 2pm. Lunch: Wendy’s. Out box has 51 Got to the office at 2pm. Weather is 80F and raining. emails. Old in box down to 10 and back to 20 Sept 2003. Work Daily Routine: BBS ok. Forum has 9 active topics. APOD sent to Eric: Cover for squadron box 1, photos of new minis. has the center of the galaxy. Lunch: Leanna’s home cooking. Out Read Worked with Steve Petrick on CL39. Industry mailing lists: box has 58 emails. Worked with Steve Petrick on scenarios. paying artists on time. Email: Jean’s CL39 reports. Email: Somebody wanting to playtest X2. Lots of CL39 Primary work-CL39: I read the scenarios last night. Petrick reports. Somebody on the F&E staff noticed that the swell new and I picked six to publish. He made the final changes and rule I found on the BB was already published several issues ago. numbered them and I put them into the issue and sent them to Jean did SFBF, SY, BCE, FCEY(4), Venues(5), for a total of 12. Jean. I boiled down three pages of PDFed into one page of CL39 Right now, she has read 102, so she lacks 18, of which 7 haven’t and sent that to Jean. I started on the early years FC cards. been sent to her yet. (I’m getting a scenario page per hour that I went home at 6pm. her home computer is sending over the dial up, so her count ======steadily increased over the course of the day.) Primary work-CL39: I start the day facing two blank pages I MY DAY: 15 June (Monday) 2009 have done nothing on (starline and future) and five more done Got to the office at 7:45am. Weather is 65F and clear. but not yet sent to Jean. Given the late start, I didn’t do anything Daily Routine: BBS ok. Forum has 20 active topics and new until after Lunch. But, right after lunch, I did Petrick’s marks on the three F&E Q&A pages and sent them out at 11:56am. I botched rule interpretation (no, the whole Fed carrier force does finished the awards page and sent that to Jean at 12:25pm. I did NOT turn into single-ship carriers in Y181, only the PFT the command the future page and gave it to Petrick at 1:18pm. I analogues do). So I had to dump the “carrier lines evolution” finalized the table of contents and sent that to Jean at 1:52pm. I article and replace it with something left over for CL40. did the text for the starline page (waiting for Eric to take photos) 11am, 90.5 pages, 96.93% (F&E Q&A) and sent it to Jean at 2:33pm. Petrick approved the future page 12noon, I just got back from lunch. without changes, so I sent that to Jean at 2:47 which meant she 1pm, 95 pages, 97.40% complete (F&E articles, ship stuff) had all 120 pages. I fixed the problem on the F&E page. As of 2pm, 110 pages done, 98.86 % complete. (Lack the scens) 4pm, Jean lacked only four pages. By 5pm, she only lacked one 3pm, I had done the scenario graphics and we had a page. I started doing reports and printing fixed pages. When I hit meeting about what to pack for Origins, and hunted down the last 90% (at 6:30) I went home. few things the printer had not delivered. ======4pm, 111.5 pages done, 99.11%. Mostly spent the hour cleaning up alibi reports. MY DAY: 18 June (Thursday) 2009 4:52pm, 120 pages done, 100% complete. Now, I have to Got to the office at 7:20am. Weather is 72F and cloudy. start on the Alibi List. Petrick’s last-second fixes, Mike West’s Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Limusaurus inextricabilis last-second begging, Jean’s last-second growling, the page explains evolution of dino hands into bird hands. Psittacosaurus numbers that work by various artists appears on, the stuff I gobiensis, new species. Jurassic Park IV. BBS ok. Forum has 12 added to fill empty spots, etc. active topics. APOD has colliding galaxies. Sudoku 3:15. Ann 6pm: In the last hour, I tracked down artist page numbers, Coulter shows that US reporting of the Amanda Knox murder sent two alibi pages to Jean, sent the revised Kzinti YCS to Mike case (the one in Italy) is just flat incorrect, and the DNA evidence West and Mike Filsinger. against Ms. Knox is damning. (The New York Times falsely Origins Prep: Meeting to discuss products to ship and how claims it is non-existent.) Web crawl completed at 2pm. Lunch: to pack them so I can find them at the show. turkey at J’s. Out box has 51 emails. Old in box completely Took the issue home with me to read at 7pm. cleaned out. Worked with Steve Petrick on CL39. Industry ======mailing lists: paying artists. Everybody wants a copy of the ADB FLAP list. MY DAY: 20 June (Saturday) 2009 Email: CL39 reports. Somebody was wanting to sell me a Got to the office at 9am. Weather is 65F. It has been pouring web ad, and I want to buy it, but I asked him to write back in July. rain since 5:30am. Ranger application. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Limusaurus. Industry mailing Primary work-CL39: The first thing I did was to organize the lists: artists who demand things. BBS ok. Forum has 16 active reports by the final page number. Jean sent in her last report, so topics, only 3 of which were things I had to read. APOD has a column 6 is finished, as is column 7. Of the 120 pages, 25.5 are stupid skyline photo. Sudoku 3:29, pretty slow. Web crawl complete as I begin the day’s work. I replaced the accidentally completed at 10am. Lunch: Ribs at Logan’s. Out box has 51 duplicated scenario with one Jean did and sent that out to the emails. Worked with Steve Petrick on Final fixes to CL39. staff to review. Email: Last second CL39 reports from Tenhoff (F&E), At 9am, I was up to 28.5 pages done. Frazier (F&E), Jean, Laikind (F&E). At 10am, 37.5. Bradley Cullen wanted to know what events we are running at At 11am, 43.5 pages, 92.03 percent complete. Gencon (none). Jean’s BBS report is not going to put Petrick in a At 2pm, after lunch and a haircut, 47.5 pages / 92.45% complete. good mood. An RPG writer wants a job. At 3pm, 51.5 pages and 92.86% complete. (FCEY rules, yuk!) Primary work-CL39: Well, let’s get started on final fixes. At 4pm, 61 pages done, 93.85% complete. 10am: 1 (4 fixes), 2(1), 3(2), 4(1), 5, 6(1), 7(1), 8(2), 9(1), 10, At 5pm, 68 pages done, 94.58% complete. 11(1), 12(1), 13-17, 18(1), 19(1), 20(2), 21(1), 22-23, 24(1), At 6pm, I was just getting back from supper. 24(1), 25(2), 26(1), 27(1), 28(1), 29(2), 30(2), 31(2), 32(2). At 7pm, 75 pages done, 95.31% complete. 10:30am: 33(1), 34(1), 35, 36(1), 37, 38(3), 39(5), 40(1), 41-42, At 8pm, 80 pages done, 95.83% complete. (Battlegroup, yuk) 43(2), 44(2), 45(2), 46(4), 47-50, 51(1), 52-53, 54(4), 55(2), At 9pm, 85 pages done, 96.35% complete (venues) 56(2), 57, 58(1), 59 (so many I made Petrick do them). At 10pm, 88.5 pages done, 96.72% complete. (I used most of the 11am: went to lunch. last hour to deal with minor little reports, marked up pages, notes, 12 Noon: 60(1), 61(3), 62(2), 63(1), 64(1), 65(1), 66-67, 68(6), term paper ranks, and so forth.) I’m going to quit for the night. 69(1), 70(1), 71(1), 72, 73(1), 74(1), 75(3), 76(1), 77(4), 78(4), Origins Prep: the guys went to the warehouse to get all of 79(1), 80(4), 81(2), 82 was such a mess I let Petrick fix it. the origins display stuff, the coolers, and the tournament stuff. 12:30pm: 83(1), 84-86, 87(1), 88(1), 89(2), 90(6), 91(5), 92(1), The car (the old van we used to haul stuff) broke down, and it 93(1), 94(1, the PFT ruling), 95, 96(1), tied up Petrick and Mike and Leanna for hours getting it running 1pm: 97(2), 98(1), 99(1), 100(3), 101(2), 102(2), 103-106, 107(1), because they didn’t want to leave it down there over night). 108-118, 119(1), 120. Quit work at 10pm. Went home a little while later. 1:30pm: Alibis: 51 (Jean-5), 119 (Mike West-1), 91 (Jean-2). ======Began doing PDF at 1:40, at 2:10 I put it on Leanna’s computer. She printed the proof copy. I finished checking at 2:45, finding MY DAY: 19 June (Friday) 2009 one error. Petrick found four mistakes on three more pages. We Got to the office at 9am. Weather is 72F and cloudy. started printing at 3:30 or so. I worked on the large print edition Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Limusaurus was four years old. and the FLAP list. I had to replace four pages of the LPE but it Industry mailing lists: Origins and my FLAP list. BBS ok. Forum was finished at 7:34pm. has 16 active topics. APOD has a Chinese astronomy book from Origins Prep: Did the back cover for Squadron Box #91. 650AD. Sudoku 3:50, distracted by Kyocera guy. Web crawl Printed out the part of the TO DO list that is Petrick’s and gave completed at 11:36. Lunch: roast beef at Marizon’s. Out box has him the printout. He worked on stuff for the tournament, 52 emails. Work sent to Eric: photos of plasma and drone minis. repacking his tournament box. Worked with Steve Petrick on CL39. ======Email: Reports on CL39 Primary work-CL39: Finished the F&E Q&A stuff. (Good old MY DAY: 21 June (Sunday) 2009 Stew was the only one to notice a serious goof!) Worked on the Got to the office at dunno, I didn’t look at the clock, I just got F&E carrier article, and Good Ole Stew (and Tenhoff) noticed here when I could and left when the “Sunday list” was finished, a something nobody else did, the whole article was based on a longer day than most. Weather is hot and humid. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Maastrichtian Tyranno- NOT going to be the expected bad year; sales were brisk all day. sauridae. Industry mailing lists: Origins. BBS ok. Forum has 12 Jean took over running the booth (with Celestia and Colleen) and active topics. APOD has a stupid skyline photo. Sudoku 3:18. banished me to a nearby table to hold court. I met with various Web crawl completed at 12:01pm. Lunch: whattaburger. Out box people after booth hours. Lieutenant Grant fetched my supper, has 51 emails. Worked with Steve Petrick and Mike Sparks on which was very good. Origins preparation list. APOD, which I looked at when I got back, had 3d photos of a ======volcano (which have WHAT to do with astronomy?). When I got home, I read Ann Coulter’s column for this date. She was ranting MY DAY: 22 June (Monday) 2009 that Obama wasn’t doing ... something? anything? what? ... Got to the office at 9:20. I rode in with Leanna (since I did about the Iranian elections. Dino list, which I read when I got not want to leave my car at the office all week). Leanna normally back, had Jurassic Park IV and Nate Murphy (an amateur fossil gets here at 10, but she knew I had things to do. Weather is 80F hunter who got 120 days in jail and $17,000 fine for hunting and clear. fossils where he shouldn’t have). Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Jurassic Park IV. Industry ======mailing lists: Origins. BBS ok. Forum has 11 active topics. APOD has a rocket launch. Lunch: salmon at Logan’s. Out box has 51 MY DAY: 26 June (Friday-Origins Trip) 2009 emails. Work sent to Eric: CL39 stuff. Worked with Steve Petrick Second booth day. Traditionally the slowest day of booth and Mike Sparks on Origins stuff. sales, it was actually a very good day of booth sales. After the Email: Some stuff about Origins. Jean’s reports. Some guys booth, I went back to D240, had supper (thanks to Lieutenant who look forward to meeting me at Origins and some guys who Grant), and met with miniatures fans. Then I took Jean to her are sad they won’t be going this year. hotel and went back to my hotel. I got the last parking place in Origins Prep: I made the snack run last night, so this the hotel lot and watched two other cars enter the lot looking for morning I put the snacks in the cooler and the sodas (chilled parking spaces during my walk back to the hotel. I got a fairly overnight at home) into the fridge here. I managed to clear the decent night’s sleep. Apparently, totally physical and mental “list of stuff to do at home” and get to work with all of the stuff exhaustion can overcome the effects of my blood pressure there so I won’t have to make an emergency trip home to get my medication (which normally wakes me up every two hours). favorite pillow. We picked up the rental car at noon, loaded it by APOD, which I looked at when I got back, had a bunch of 2:30, but were so exhausted from the heat (and old age) that we pictures of the sky showing the sun moving. Whoppee. Dino list, rested until 4pm. Had a quiet drive to Tulsa (much nicer now that which I read when I got back, had Jurassic Park IV and Nate we discovered the way to avoid OKC) and checked into the hotel Murphy. we stay at every year. ======MY DAY: 27 June (Sat-Origins Trip) 2009 MY DAY: 23 June (Tuesday-Origins Trip) 2009 Third booth day, traditionally the second best sales day, it After a surprisingly good night’s sleep, we hit the road, was slow but steady. After booth hours, I went back to D240 reaching Sweetwater BBQ, where we had the Grande Lunch and where Lieutenant Grant served my supper, then I met with took supper (and afternoon snacks) with us. (I had to throw my various people until it was time for the F&E seminar, which take home bag away as it had onions in it.) We pushed on decided NOT to change the status of carriers in the game. I went beyond Indinapolis for the first time and stayed in Richmond. We back to my hotel to sleep while Jean waited for somebody else to met Garth and Celestia there and had a small singalong while drive her home. (I should have done so as her ride did not go Garth reviewed his pre-order package. back to her hotel until much later.) I got back to the hotel and APOD, which I looked at when I got back, had a dark went to bed without packing, which slightly annoyed Petrick, but molecular cloud. Dino list, which I read when I got back, had when he discovered that I had in fact never actually unpacked, Suchomimus tenerensis, Jurassic Park IV, and Pterosaurs. he forgave me. ======APOD, which I looked at when I got back, had skyline photos (why bother?). MY DAY: 24 June (Weds-Origins Trip) 2009 ======Another good night’s sleep, then the surprisingly short drive to Columbus. That new airport bypass drops us right at the hotel. MY DAY: 28 June (Sunday-Origins Trip) 2009 We unloaded into our huge room. (By dumb luck, Leanna forgot Petrick walked the booth babes to the booth, then had to to make reservations on time, and we got the “handicap room” make a second trip because I forgot to give them the money and which was the last room left, and it was double-size). We plugged the credit card machine. Sales were steady all day, over a in the radio charger (we never used the radios, relying on cell thousand dollars. I settled up with Ken Burnside (we had sold a phones for the first time) and credit card machine. We went to bunch of his stuff for him), gave the unsold factory-second lunch at Charley’s, where we met up with Garth, Celestia, miniatures to Bruce, and tried to pack up the stuff. (You are not Bouchard, and Jean. I took Celestia and Jean to D240 and met allowed to dismantle your booth before 4pm, but everybody starts Petrick (who moved the van around to the back door; Garth “stealth packing” the surplus unsold merchandise about 2pm. helped him unload). Celestia and Jean took over booth set up, This year, due to various things (Ken being late, people buying saying I had no sense of style. A few walks back and forth to stuff), I did not get to start packing until 4pm, but with Jean to D240, supper, and then the singalong. Jean sang “How much is help me it went very fast. It took us until 5:40pm to get out of that Klingon in the window?” while the crowd voted for Petrick there due to the non-availability of those big carts we could and I not to sing at all. I met with the judges, and then with the borrow in previous years. (This is some kind of dispute between F&E players, then took Jean back to her hotel and posted a blog. GAMA and the decorator, who claims he doesn’t make enough APOD, which I looked at when I got back, had clouds. Not money and is withholding the carts in some kind of subtle move astronomical clouds, just plain old clouds. Why? Dino list, which I to force GAMA to pay him more.) We drove to Saint Clair, read when I got back, had Jurassic Park IV, Terror-saurs, and a Missouri, reaching there after midnight. I was so tired that (for the new Jurassic turtle (Basilochelys macro). first time) I did not count the money. ======APOD, which I looked at when I got back, had a good photo of cracks in the ice on the moon Enceladus. MY DAY: 25 June (Thur-Origins Trip) 2009 ======A good night’s sleep, a breakfast of Danish rolls from Red Roof, and we opened the booth. We quickly realized that this was MY DAY: 29 June (Monday-Origins Trip) 2009 We got up, stalled packing, and arrived at Sweetwater BBQ tournament for SFB or FC as players want scenarios). a half hour before they opened, but the nice lady let us in and fed ======us anyway. We took supper with us, which saved time later. The drive was pleasant, and we got to the office a little after 9pm, MY DAY: 30 June (Tuesday) 2009 unloaded a few things, and went home. I wanted to hit the sack, Got to the office at 9:15am. Weather is getting warm. but Leanna insisted that I unload the van to find all of her Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: how duckbills chewed their presents, and then she insisted that we count the money, at food. Industry mailing lists: Origins, Gencon. BBS settling down. which point we discovered that sales for this “disappointing year” Forum has 59 active topics. APOD has a nice nebula I have seen were better than 2007 and 2008. before. Sudoku 3:45, tired and out of practice. Web crawl was APOD, which I looked at in the office on Thursday, had never completed. Lunch: Salmon at Logan’s. Work sent to Eric: some kind of video that my Mac9 cannot play. he helped me with inventory. ======Email: Jean about the politics on the BBS (several people are going to get slapped). Richard Bouchard about the glories of Origins After-Action Report: 2009 the large print editions. It was a good show. Attendance was clearly down (preliminary Email that was sent after I left: Rick Loomis wanting to GAMA reports indicate about 10,000 people, down from the clean up some old paperwork. GAMA with “new and important” disappointing 13,000 last year). Lots of events were nearly empty information for GMs. Ken Burnside wanting my cell phone all over the show, although the “pay $12 to play all day” room number. was full most of the time. The dealer room was a third smaller Origins: We unloaded the car, and I gave instructions for and had "spacious" aisles and many obviously unsold booth nothing to be taken out of the front room until it had been spots, but there were far more attractive women than usual. inventoried and inspected. We’re going to take some time to do Sales were a bit MORE than last year, surprising due to the things we normally would not do until the day or two before we supposed bad economy and smaller crowd. GAMA team did a leave next year, so we can reduce the last minute stress next superb job. Trey actually asked me for any gripes since she knew year. I did the inventory of what we did not sell, which by reverse I'd be the first person to speak up if there were, but there were process tells us what we did sell. We already knew how much none, at least, none about GAMA. (The idiots who run the money was in the cashbox. convention center were trying to force us to pay $100 to park our ======van in the loading dock, but went away when we refused to be bullied. I don't know who owns the big carts, but they -- again -- MY DAY: 1 July (Wednesday) 2009 would not allow exhibitors to use them, doubling the time needed Got to the office at 9:50. Weather is 80F. Disturbing news to load and unload.) The convention food was much better. that, despite rampant and obvious vote fraud, Al Franken had Grilled chicken sandwiches were healthier than most offerings managed to steal a senate seat he did not actually win. and they got rid of those horrid "home-made potato chips" in Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: University of Wyoming closes favor of French fries. I got to go to North Market for the first time museum to fund football team. Industry mailing lists: Origins, ever (and that will be the last time I ever go there as it is mostly North Market, GenCon bad snafus. BBS ok. Forum has 6 active trendy ethnic food that I’m allergic to or just won’t eat. I refer to topics. APOD has a photo of three galaxies. Lunch: fish at that stuff one staffer brings back from there as “dog vomit” and Golden Corral. that’s when I am being polite.) The GPA booth was well Email: Jean about BBS. Mike about a BBS problem person. organized and very professional due to the delightful fashion Red Roof Inn hotel survey. model (Marcy) they hired to run it. The best part of the Origins: I spent the day digging through all of the returning experience, as usual, was seeing so many old friends. We boxes looking for receipts, hotel bills, money, notes, disposal learned some lessons and made some notes to change things in vouchers, business cards, and the like, and repacking things to the future. We will no longer bring 50 or 60 backlist SFB modules go back into storage for another year. just in case someone buys one or two of them; we will just bring ======stuff printed in the last two years. (We may use the space to MY DAY: 2 July (Thursday) 2009 bring a better cart since the decorator won’t let us use the big Got to the office at 9:25am. Weather is 80F and clear. ones any more.) We will stop bringing so many of the miniatures Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: asteroid impact database. and will just bring a representative sample of the ones more than Industry mailing lists: Origins. BBS ok, Origins 2010 F&E banter a year old. We will have better signs to tell people that we have started. Forum 11 active topics. APOD has a fascinating Lyman- products in boxes we don’t have room to display. (If GAMA offers Alpha blob. Sudoku 2:57, a “new record” (I had a faster time the “second booth for half price” next year, I may take them up on before computer crash a year ago). Ann Coulter was on a rant it and bring all of my magazine racks, since I have two complete about the New Haven case. Web crawl completed at 5:30pm; I sets due to forgetting to take them one year and having to buy a caught up the APODs but not the Dinos, one Video rental place second set at Office Depot.) Ken Burnside and I need to have but not the other, half of the websites I check for copyright each other’s phone numbers in our cell phones instead of relying violations. Lunch: turkey at J’s, and not one of their better days. on faulty memory. We will continue to sell Ken’s products and the Out box has 57 emails. Building carpenter list: the guy who is Factory Second starships. I plan to put Jean in “full charge” of the going to cut down the spray the weeds showed up. Worked with booth so I can spent more time “floating” around the convention. I Steve Petrick on Origins after action and reconstitution. plan to gather up a team of SFU staffers with military service and Email: Somebody asked if we were still considering Comic demolish the TerrorWerks scenario (again). The tournament guys Con (no, we are not, Tulsa convinced us not to do Comic Con). need to keep better records of who played in events (and who Origins: After action discussion over lunch, plans to take won them; I am tired of trying to figure out on Sunday morning less “backlist stock” next year. (Hint: if you’re going to want a who won which event). We need a sign in the booth telling copy of Module C2 or K or Gorn minis, order ahead of time.) people that demos are available (free!) if they just ask Jean Leanna completed the sales invoice and we didn’t have any where to find them. Event attendance was up for F&E and down money missing (which is good, for me, as I get beaten if I mislay for SFB and FC. We’re not worried since that seems to reflect the money). Went to Robinson’s BBQ at 6:45 with Petrick. economy and the overall attendance. The judges did a great job ======(so maybe next year Petrick and I can do TerrorWerks more often). Kudos to Chuck Strong, Tony Thomas, Mike Curtis, MY DAY: 3 July (Friday) 2009 Lieutenant Grant, Snacko Knipfer, Mike Filsinger, Paul Franz, Got to the office at 10am. Weather is warm and clear. and Roger Rardain. Paul put the seminars on Talk Shoe. Next Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Australovenator wintonensis. year, we plan to do more scenarios (unsure if we need a Industry lists: Origins, North Market, BBQ. The BBS is fine. Bruce Graw for cost data on seeking weapons minis. Found Forum has 9 active topics. APOD has a photo comparing the sun another old ‘things to do list” and integrated it into the new at the farthest and closest orbital points. Sudoku 3:33. Caught up primary list. Then I found another one and integrated that too. on the second video rental site and Dinosaur List. Web crawl Origins: Made reservations at Red Roof for next year. completed at 12:56. Lunch: fish at Calico. Starlist 72034. Out box Went home at 6:30, or rather, to Robinson’s BBQ. has 58 emails. Work sent to Eric: orders to create podcast page. ======Email: Bob Dingman reported a bad link on the site; I sent that to Eric. Hernan Ruiz Camauer reports that Valkenburg MY DAY: 7 July (Tuesday) 2009 Castle has been officially released. Graham Hunt suggests Got to the office at 8:52am. Weather is warm and clear. marking the crippled boxes on shuttle tracks (Petrick thinks this is Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Stegosaurus nomenclature. redundant clutter and extra work). Jean is travelling, and so did Industry mailing lists: GAMA’s official Origins report says “over not send her reports and reminders emails today. 10,000 attended” and that attendance was down 18%. BBS is Primary work: reconstitution and processing the Origins fine. Forum has 14 active topics. APOD has the Triffid Nebula. reports, materials, inventory, and other items back into storage Sudoku 3:27. Web crawl completed at 10:08. Lunch: Wendy’s. for next year. I wrote a long memo on the Dead In Space project. Starlist 34219. Out box has 46 emails. Work sent to Eric: add ======links on main index to the talkshoe page, add links on talkshoe page to 2008 seminars, add history PDF to Magellanics page; MY DAY: 4 July (Independence Day) 2009 add links to the Paravian page. Read FYEO for 25 May. MidY Got to the office at 9am. Weather is warm and clear. I was ships to FCOL: While I did not actually send any, I did the “batch here a short while, then went to the local Tea Party for most of delete” for the Feds (deleting unneeded items on all Fed Cards). the day. It was a fun party, with lots of people, triple the last one. Email: Jean about BBS. Jean about Origins display. Jean Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: dino mummy. Industry mailing about the work Eric did yesterday. Rev Bear about cleaning up lists: freelancing. BBS and Forum must have been fine because I the Starlist entries for him. Jay Waschak about Fed Admiral. Matt never went there. Lunch: BBQ I bought at the grocery store. Alleman about Omega minis. (I sent a memo to Petrick asking ======him to draft the formal memo on required fixes.) Gary Carney asked me to add the Magellanic history to that page. Gary MY DAY: 5 July (Sunday) 2009 Carney wanted links added to the Paravian page. Somebody Got to the office at 4pm. Weather is hot and clear. wanted to pay for a link on our site. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Tylosaurus. Industry lists: Old Email: (480 pending after morning triage): After government investigates Google Orphan Books. BBS ok but I consultation with the staff, I upgraded the Stinger-2 icons on all had to “give direction” to the Reflection Universe topic. Forum HA ships to an improved version. Somebody asked me to make has 19 active topics. APOD has a crashed space probe, one that him an Avatar. Another artist looking for work. Somebody wanted crashed several years ago (marginal astronomy posted years me to publish his new d20 RPG that he’s been working on for two after the fact). Sudoku 3:12. Web crawl completed at 5:29pm. entire weeks. I pounded on this and got it down to 450. Lunch: Leanna cooked roast at home. Out box 59 emails. Stacks Report at 30%: Cloned the Communique File. sent Email: Web requests. Jean reports her safe arrival at home. notes to Eric about Hailing Frequencies. Printed out Klingon Stacks Report: I spent most of today just making a list of Armada. Set up list of ships for Briefing #3. things I’m supposed to be doing. Worked with Petrick on the Primary work: Formally requested die-cutting quotes on two monstrous list of products due out this fall. of the 32 possible permutations of what we might print. Printed Went home at 7:30 with a pile of stuff to read. out the Klingon Armada rules and took them home to read. ======Worked until 8pm, played computer games for a while, took MY DAY: 6 July (Monday) 2009 a nap, woke up at midnight, went home. ======Got to the office at 7:50. Weather is overcast and warm. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Floating pterosaurs. BBS ok. MY DAY: 8 July (Wednesday) 2009 Forum has 8 active topics. APOD has a photo of the surface of Got to the office at 9:20. Weather is good. Mercury. Sudoku 3:33. Web crawl completed at 8:28am. Lunch: Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Dinosaur Valley Girls. Industry salmon at Logan’s. Starlist 72703. Out box has 62 emails. Work mailing lists: Gencon, what the Origins attendance numbers sent to Eric: add CL39 link and FC note to Early Years page; really mean. BBS ok. Forum has 11 active topics. APOD has the update link on Academy page; create Middle Years page; “dark river” dust cloud. Sudoku 3:26. Web crawl completed at rotating update to StoreList. Read FYEO for 24 May; copied a 10:04. Lunch: veggie plate at Cheddars. Starlist 95113. Out box month of FYEO emails into word. MidY ships for FCOL: I copied has 51 emails. Work sent to Eric: 21 pending work orders. Read the files so I can work on them later. Worked with Steve Petrick FYEO for 26 and 27 May. MidY ships sent to FCOL: F201. on schedule. Industry mailing lists: Origins after action. Worked with Steve Petrick on G3A scenario index. Email: Randy Steck about software. Jean’s reports. Dead in Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Somebody trying to Space contract. Francesc Xavier Cebrián about an old TFG sell me a new RPG “just like d20 but better!” Todd Boyce about game. Sent Todd Boyce a shuttle picture; he says he can do it shuttlecraft design details. next week. Jean has major ear infection and is unable to work. Old Email: (450 pending after morning triage.) Grafton found Others: Eric created a podcast page. a review of an old out of print illegal SFB expansion. Somebody Old Email: (490 pending after morning triage.) Gary Carney about whether the ADB R3 and the TFG R3 had the same ships. request for FC-CL39 note on Early years page. Told Gary to Anthony Cutcliffe sent something funny I finally had time to read. check the website master index to see if things he asks for (like Jean Sexton sent something funny that I finally had time to read. an X-ship page) already exist so he isn’t wasting my time. Gary Got this down to 435. asked for an update to the Academy page. Gary Carney’s Primary work: Spent a couple of hours talking with Hernan request for a Middle Years page. Memos about the contents of and looking at the Valkenburg Castle computer game, and FC Briefing #3. Miniatures seminar minutes received from Tony T figuring out what SFU games Hernan could do. and sent to Eric to upload. Went home at 6:30pm to spend time with Leanna. Stacks Report: Rebuilt the system. Status 21%. ======Primary work: Meeting with Petrick and Leanna to review new management system and update the TO DO list. Posted MY DAY: 9 July (Thursday) 2009 “Beg for fiction” notice for CL40. Contacted Jay W about iPhone Got to the office at 8:20. Weather is 90F and clear. games. Asked Todd to send fighter bronzes to Bruce. Asked Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: evolutionary losses of fingers and toes; footprints in Morocco; why did therizinosaurs go Got to the office at 8:10am. Weather is 75F and clear. I vegan? Industry mailing lists: Origins, Gencon. BBS ok, wanted heard most of Obama’s speech to Africa on the way in and have new topics, reorganized K2. Forum has 11 active topics. APOD to say I was surprised (and happy) with it. Tough love, partners has a map of known pulsars. Sudoku 3:30. Ann Counter on how not endless donations stolen by corrupt leaders. In 20 years it much liberals hate Sarah Palin (liberals refuse to vote for her or might be said: “Only Obama could make Africa wake up.” watch her TV show, but are terrified somebody else might). Web Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Creationist mistakes prove crawl completed at 12:51. Lunch: Turkey at J’s. Starlist: evolution is true. Industry mailing lists: What does low Origins Somebody asked for a listing but said the data he gave was turnout portend for Gencon? BBS ok. Forum has 12 active topics. going to change soon, so I told him to resubmit with new data APOD has clouds (which has WHAT to do with astronomy?). when he has it. Out box has 45 emails. Work sent to Eric: Omega Sudoku 3:33. Web crawl completed at 10:18. Lunch: steak at map; create sublight battles page with several SSDs. Read Hoffbrau; not bad, but too expensive. Starlist from British FYEO for 28 and 29 May. MidY ships sent to FCOL: F202. Columbia. Out box has 56 emails (creeping upward as I send (Doing FCOL ships is so much fun that I dabbled here and there work orders to Mike faster than he can do them). Work sent to in the file of 72 FCB2 ships yet to be done without finishing any of Eric: bad link report. Read FYEO for 1 & 2 June. MidY ships sent them.) Worked with Steve Petrick on scenario index. to FCOL: F206+F207. (I also “dabbled” in the file, doing random Email: Todd about shuttle mini. Jean checking Eric’s work. ships that will speed things up in future.) Russ Petersen about carrier escorts. Scott Johnson about the old Email: Jean found a bad link in something Eric did. sublight rules. Jean’s report from the doctor is that the infection Somebody else reported another bad link. John Christiansen will clear up in a few days and won’t go into something worse. asked if he could drop by. Mike Bennett asked if I had read his Somebody wants to buy ads on FederationCommander.com but scenario yet (not yet). Ed McGrady asked if the Steve Petrick won’t tell me what they want to advertise. Jerry Roalstad wanted working at ADB was his old game buddy from Melbourne Florida. to get some SSDs from Captain’s Log. Moellmer on fiction. Eric (While that is Petrick’s home town, I doubt if it’s the same Steve on work orders. Petrick who used to play wargames and went away to join the Old Email: (460 remain after morning triage, 440 when I got Army.) Art Trotman asked about doing some FC scenarios with done): Got rid of a bunch of this by forwarding it to Eric to upload unusual empire combinations. (Go ahead if you can explain why to the new sublight page. Roms are fighting Hydrans.) Todd Boyce sent his shuttle design, Primary work: Did Communique and sent it to the staff. Did which we had to have him change as it did not match ours. Mike a bunch of stuff for the Hailing Frequencies newsletter. Spoke West and Mike Filsinger about ship selections for boosters 92-97. with Daniel Kast about how to package Klingon Armada. Old Email: (432 remain after morning triage, 400 when I got ======fed up and moved on): Adam about booster covers. Kenneth Jones about fiction. Jean Sexton sent a scenario. Reviewed a MY DAY: 10 July (Friday) 2009 short story from Gary Nerroth but could not make heads or tails Got to the office at 9am. Weather is 86F with a few high of it; I sent it to ken Burnside who send me a list of corrections clouds. New reports indicate people are starting to wake up and which I sent to Gary. Some convention asked for support; send realize that the Stimulus Bill was a lot of spending for political standard form letter. Tony Thomas asked me to put “stickers” on pork and not many real permanent jobs. Fortunately, 90% of it my to do list. Somebody wanted us to add a link to the links hasn’t been spent and can still be stopped if anybody has sense. page. Update to Store list. Numerous obsolete emails (things Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Evolution in science fiction. already dealt with). Request for playtest materials. Question from Industry mailing lists: Origins success stories. BBS ok. Forum Jean about K20M. has 1(?) active topics. APOD has the pillars of creation (never Primary work: Sorted out the mess of the booster 25-26-27 gets old). Sudoku 3:41. Web crawl completed at 4:06pm. Lunch: covers and sent instructions to Adam. Staff meeting on Starmada awful. I don’t want to talk about it, and you don’t want to be Project decides to do it as a book, not a boxed game. anywhere near me until somebody brings me some cookies or It’s Saturday and I’m hot and I quit work at 4:30. something. (After I shot Petrick -- a mere flesh wound -- and Eric ======-- so ... he’ll limp the rest of his life, not a big deal -- Leanna took me out for ice cream.) No Starlist requests. Out box has 49 MY DAY: 12 July (Prochorovka Day) 2009 emails. Work sent to Eric: Newsletter files, cadet freighter, height- Got to the office at 5:30pm. Weather is 95F and clear. weight in GURPS, typo fixes on omega page, more stuff for the I suggested to Petrick that we should celebrate Prochorovka sublight page. Read FYEO for 30+31 May. MidY ships sent to Day as we usually do, by going to the nearby university campus FCOL: F203-F204-F205. Worked with Steve Petrick on and shooting communist professors. Petrick said that since they Newsletter and Communique #43. were now running the country, this might not be a good idea. Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Tim Stetzer about Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Baby T-rex. Industry lists: video SFBF. A zillion emails about the Hailing Frequencies newsletter. games vs alzheimer’s. BBS ok. Forum has 18 actives. APOD has Old Email: (442 remain after morning triage, 430 when I got a telegram to another civilization. Sudoku 3:51, really off my done): Cleaned out a lot of junk. Turned a memo from Gary game. Web crawl complete at 6:19. Leanna cooked porkchops. Plana into a website document. I put the guy with the new RPG Out box has 60 emails. Work sent to Eric: Cadet SSD to upload. in contact with Jonathan Thompson to get info on putting his Read FYEO for 3 June. MidY ships sent to FCOL: F208. games onto the on-line PDF stores. A new scenario from Mike Email: Gary Carney was trying to get me to overrule Ken on Bennett. Told Jeff Wile not to write an SFU story about Ogre-Bolo Magellanic history. I’m not going to do that. Scott Johnson sent tanks. Told Scott M and Steve P to resolve “the phaser repair another cadet thing which I passed to Eric. issue” and THEN I would read the fiction story Scott wrote. Scott Went home at 7pm. Johnson about Cadet Game uploads. ======Primary work: The whole day was kind of screwed up since I had to stop doing my daily routine and do the newsletter and MY DAY: 13 July (Monday) 2009 communique stuff first so it could be sent out. The newsletter was Got to the office at 10:04am. Weather is hot and clear. such a mess that I effectively got nothing else done all day. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: therizinosaurs. Industry mailing Quit work at 6pm, burned out, watched funny videos on lists: form of business (corp, LLC, etc.). BBS is cooling down youtube and other such places using Eric’s computer. Left at after Jean stomped. Forum has 11 active topics. APOD has a 6:30 and went to Robinson’s BBQ. picture of a volcano (interesting, but not astronomy). Sudoku ======3:18. Web crawl completed at 10:58. Lunch: Salmon at Logan’s. Starlist 93940. Out box has 57 emails. Work sent to Eric: MY DAY: 11 July (Saturday) 2009 rearrange forum topics. Read FYEO for 4+5 June. MidY ships sent to FCOL: F209+F210+F211+F212. Democrat hypocrisy on Supreme Court nominees. Web crawl Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Gary about his fiction completed at 2:04. Lunch: Turkey at J’s (awful!). Starlist 97034. articles. MPS says they are working on the die cutting quote. Out box has 61 emails. Work sent to Eric: an iPhone thing I Andy Palmer about cadet ships. Board Game Geek about needed to go see. Read FYEO for 9 and 10 June. MidY ships banners. Petrick about Booster #27 cover. Daniel Kast about how sent to FCOL: F221 +F222 + F223 + F224. to package Starmada (due for release in October!). Email: UN Department of Internet Fraud says the Nigerians Phone call from a local radio station wanting me to pay to that contacted me are ok. Jean reports that the BBS is ok. Daniel sponsor a public service message. (This is a common scam they Kast about starmada marketing. Art Trotman about Roxanna use to get companies that won’t buy advertising to contribute to Vulpes. Jay Waschak sent an iPhone thing for me to look at. their profit margin and satisfy their FCC requirement to do PSAs Old Email: (372 remain after morning triage, 338 when I got without giving up any advertising revenue.) done): Mike West on Briefing #3 ships. Lots of quick answers not Old Email: (410 after morning triage, 353 after I spent one listed. A store wanting al listing. Somebody sent an FC scenario. hour on this): Somebody wanted to know where to find the armed A guy who copied a story from a book and changed the names tug pods. Doug Howard about some art. Made a file for all of the thought it was a new story. Howard Bampton website fixes. stuff from Hernan. Mike West about ship list for Briefing #3. Jeff Primary work: Sent info to Adam on Cover for Booster 27. Johnson Ranger application. Several RPG writers asking for Worked on that local water company bookkeeping mess. jobs; send those to Jean. I got a new BBS map from Jean back in Went home at 6:30pm with a stack of stuff (fiction, scenarios, early June but just now reviewed it and sent it to Eric to upload. campaigns, other submissions) from my old Email. Primary work: Mostly, today was a day of working on admin ======stuff, cleaning up stacks of work on my desk. I did get price quotes on the drones and plasma torpedoes, and will work up MY DAY: 17 July (Friday) 2009 packaging and production tomorrow. I also spent some time Got to the office at 8:12am. Weather is 75F and clear. working on a non-ADB task, auditing the books of the water Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Silesaurus. Industry mailing company that supplies my house and is about to be sold. lists: Fake WOTC email. BBS ok. Forum has 21 active topics. Went home at 6:30pm. APOD has a nice galaxy. Sudoku 3:20. Web crawl completed at ======12:57. Lunch: BBQ at Country Barn. Starlist no requests. Out box has 58 emails. Work sent to Eric: new entries on index. Read MY DAY: 14 July (Tuesday) 2009 FYEO for 11-12 June. MidY ships sent to FCOL: F225 +F226 Got to the office at 9:30am. Weather is 85F and clear. +F227 +F228 +F229 +F230. Exercise: strider. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Kemkemia auditorei, a new Email: Bruce Graw about minis production. Jean’s reports theropod from Morocco, based on one vertebra. Industry mailing and reminders. Howard Bampton about website updates. Mike lists: ComicCon. BBS ok. Forum has 14 active topics. APOD has Curtis’s guest blog. Store listing. Moellmer about fiction. a stupid skyline photo. Sudoku 3:07. Web crawl completed at Old Email: (334 after morning triage, 310 when I had to 2:05. Lunch: Roast Beef at Cafe Marizon. Starlist 80104. Out box move on): Store wanting a listing. A website that was not has 60 emails. Work sent to Eric: Cadet page. Read FYEO for violating copyrights but had to be checked. A bunch of other stuff. 6+7 June. MidY ships sent to FCOL: F213 +F214 +F215 +F216. Primary work: Most of the day went into the Rockwell Acres Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Art Trotman about Water System. (If I don’t fix the mess the owner made, my house Roxanna Vulpes scenarios he is writing. Got quote on die cutting will have no water for months.) Memo to F&E staff about and asked for details. Daniel Kast about Klingon Armada. procedures for F&E-2010. Leanna needed me to make some Primary work: Talked with Leanna about pricing for seeking “name a starship” certificates but the file is only on the damaged weapon packs. They’re expensive little buggers. Six drones cost (and still un-repaired) hard disk #2, but thank God for CD more than most cruisers, plus stands (a cruiser has ones stand, backups! Updated the TO DO list. six drones have six stands, which adds a couple of bucks to the Left at 5pm to get to the water co-op meeting. cost). Plus the royalties for Todd. ======Took off a few hours to go meet with local businessmen about a business situation. Went home at 6pm. MY DAY: 18 July (Saturday) 2009 ======Got to the office at 9:17. Weather is 75F, high thin clouds. Last night’s water meeting went badly. One group of people MY DAY: 15 July (Wednesday) 2009 convinced others not to attend, then demanded that the water Got to the office at 10am. Weather is hot and cloudy. company provide better service for lower rates. (I finally Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Turanoceratops is a understand the California mentality.) So, now, the water company ceratopsian after all; Armadillosuchus. Industry mailing lists: card will raise rates (by $40 a month) to punish the malcontents. printers. BBS ok. Forum has 15 active topics. APOD has a dark Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Allosaurus attack. Industry nebula. Sudoku 3:04. Web crawl completed at 12:14. Lunch: mailing lists: GAMA is releasing podcasts of GTS seminars. BBS none. Starlist V1X6G9. Out box has 61 emails. Read FYEO for 8 heating up. Forum has 21 active topics. APOD has a worthless July. Clutter MidY ships sent to FCOL: F217 +F218 +F219 skylline photo. Sudoku 3:27. Web crawl completed at 12:23. +F220. Worked on a few random ships from the project. Lunch: Pizza Planet. Starlist no requests. Out box has 59 emails. Email: Steve Jackson with a nice comment on something I Work sent to Eric: Blogs for Jan, Feb, March. Read FYEO for posted. Daniel Kast about distributing Starmada. 13+14 June. MidY ships sent to FCOL: F231-F236. Exercise: Primary work: I had dental work today which took up the Strider-50. entire afternoon (and left me too sick to work). I left at 1:30. Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Todd Boyce about ======minis. Patrick True wanting statistical data. Michael Grafton about fiction. MY DAY: 16 July (Thursday) 2009 Old Email: (312 remained after morning triage, 276 when I Got to the office at 8:50. Weather is 75F with high thin got done): I cleaned out a lot of junk that didn’t need answering, clouds. Mike Curtis and his family stopped by. Leanna slapped just filing or deleting. him in the head for some reason I do not understand. Primary work: Progress on F&E-2010: work on the new Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Cretaceous Crocodile found in auto-kill and other rules. Cleaned out many archives. Created a Fort Worth. Industry mailing lists: print on demand cards, folder in the F&E-2010 file where I could put stuff I do not want to ComicCon. BBS ok. Forum has some active topics, but a get lost. Went home at 6pm. Still a ton of stuff on my reading computer crash means I cannot tell what they are. APOD has a clipboard. cluster of galaxies. Sudoku 3:19. Ann Coulter documents ======Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Phorusrhacids. Industry mailing MY DAY: 19 July (Sunday) 2009 lists: somebody wants to interview people in the industry. BBS Got to the office at 1:45pm. Weather is 90F. few high clouds. ok. Forum has 11 active topics. APOD has the blue lagood Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Falcarius. Industry mailing lists: nebula, spectacular! Sudoku 3:44, off my game. Web crawl Cthulhu Plushy. BBS ok. Forum has 13 active topics. APOD has completed at 8:52. Lunch: enchiladas at La Fiesta. Starlist: No a 40 year old photo we’ve all see before. Sudoku 3:16. Web Requests. Out box has 49 emails. Work sent to Eric: PD pages. crawl completed at 3:34. Lunch: Leanna cooked stew. Starlist No Read FYEO for 19-20-21 June. MidY ships sent to FCOL: F251- Requests. Out box has 61 emails. Read FYEO for 15 June. MidY F258. ships sent to FCOL: F237-F242. Exercise: strider-55. Email: Jean reports & reminders; she said that no matter Email: Jean about BBS problems (including a phone call). how depressed and bored I am, using my M16A1 to pick off Patrick True looking for ship data. Adam Turner about booster winos across the street was not allowed. Paul Cordeiro about FC art. scenarios. The Nigerians are only offering $12.5 million today, so Old Email: (277 remain after morning triage, 250 when I got I guess the economy is bad all around. Support request from done): mostly just filed stuff or deleted stuff that I was keeping as game fest. a self-reminder until I heard from them again (and I have). Dentist: Regular teeth cleaning, out of office 1:30-3:30pm. Primary work: Progress on F&E-2010: Went through posts, This left me sore and sick, and I have been feeling bad anyway. read posts, updated rules, posted rules, deleted processed posts. (Apparently, I’m neither fed up nor depressed, but just sick, my Went home at 6pm. blood chemistry is out of whack.) I basically didn’t do much the ======rest of the day and eventually went home. MY DAY: 20 July (Moon Landing Day) 2009 ======Got to the office at 9:30. Weather is 80F, partly cloudy. MY DAY: 23 July (Thursday) 2009 Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Dromomeron. Industry mailing Got to the office at 8:35am. Weather is 75F with few clouds. lists: print on demand services. BBS oik. Forum has 8 active Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Janenschia. Industry mailing topics. APOD has another 40-year-old picture we saw when it lists: interviews. BBS is fine. Forum has 12 active topics. APOD was new, and does not mention that Neil blew his line. Sudoku has an impact scar on Jupiter. Sudoku 3:15. Ann Coulter on 3:08. Web crawl completed at 10:40. Lunch: Salmon at Logan’s. health care. Web crawl completed at 9:42. Lunch: Denny’s. Starlist 46203. Out box has 60 emails (later, 52). Work sent to Starlist Canada V3R 4Y2. Out box has 40 emails. Work sent to Eric: Fix to shopping cart. Read FYEO for 16+17 June. MidY Eric: BBS. Read FYEO for 22-23-24-25 June. MidY ships sent to ships sent to FCOL: F243-F248. Worked with Steve Petrick on FCOL: F259-F262. Exercise: Strider-60. Module G3A. Exercise: Strider-60. Email: Art Trotman about his scenario. Jean’s reports and Email: Randy Green about his readiness inspection. reminders. Email 9-2 in favor of sanction integrity. Onstar report. Somebody wanted permission to do an iPhone App for use with Stacks Report: Updated Gift Giving page. SFB without paying royalties (no, thank you, but no). Todd Boyce Primary work: Tried to work on die cutting (which sets the about the seeking weapon minis. Daniel Kast about Starmada. fall schedule) but the quotes from the most likely source are Old Email: (253 remain after morning triage, 244 when I got contradictory. Asked for clarification. Waiting, Waiting... done): Cleaned out some old stuff. F&E-2010: Reviewed status of the source text files. Primary work: Progress on F&E-2010: read, answered, Project Fabulous: Scheduled a meeting for 3pm Saturday. deleted various posts. Had to spend way too much time checking Spent half an hour talking to the printer. out that unauthorized wiki thing and asking for it to be shut down. Went to Robinson’s at 7pm, then home, where I worked on I cleared a lot of stuff from my outbox. Quit working at 6pm but various stuff, including a Q-ship story and a “paint by numbers” did not go home until I had taken a nap. I wasn’t feeling well. adventure. Jean woke me up at 11pm which is never good. ======MY DAY: 21 July (Tuesday) 2009 MY DAY: 24 July (Friday) 2009 Got to the office at 8:30am. Weather is 75F and cloudy. Got to the office at 7:42am. Weather is 70F and thin clouds. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Wyoming Museum reopens. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Phorusrhacids. Industry mailing Industry mailing lists: Gencon. BBS ok. Forum has 10 active lists: Gencon. BBS is fine after Jean handled the guy trying to get topics. APOD has the horsehead nebula. Sudoku 3:11. Web himself kicked out so he can say we’re “mean”. Forum has 25(?!) crawl completed at 10:44. Lunch: Salmon at Logan’s (again, I active topics (none of which are about the problems on the BBS). was in a bad mood and Leanna thought it would cheer me up). APOD has a picture of an eclipse. Sudoku 3:45, off my game. Starlist no requests. Out box has 48 emails. Work sent to Eric: Web crawl completed at 9:44am. Lunch: Barnaby’s. Starlist Prime Directive pages. Read FYEO for 18 June. MidY ships sent 11370. Out box has 44 emails. Read FYEO for 26-27-28-29-30 to FCOL: F249-F250. Exercise: shooting my M16A1. June. MidY ships sent to FCOL: F263-F268. Email: Chuck about F&E-2010. Jean’s reports and Email: Question about Kzinti refits sent to Petrick. Question reminders. Robert Saint John about the PD web pages. The die about energy allocation sent to Petrick. Jean about the bad boy cutter hasn’t done the quotes yet. Scott Johnson BBS registration on the BBS. Mike Bullard about RPGs. problems. Somebody about the size of Gorn ships. Somebody Still not feeling well from whatever is ailing me. (I know it’s about what FC product to buy first. Die cutter. not blood sugar, but it’s probably blood chemistry; pending doctor Foul and Ugly Mood: I was pretty much in a foul and ugly appointment will tell the story.) I packed up and went home with a mood because of the idiots with the local water supply company, clipboard of stuff to read at 2:30pm. and wasn’t fit to be around people. Leanna and Jean tried to get ======me to go to the pistol range, but it was too much trouble to go dig out my ammo and hearing protection and fill out the paperwork, MY DAY: 25 July (Saturday) 2009 so I spent some time firing my M16A1 down the hallway at work Got to the office at 10am. Weather is 75F high thin clouds. into a cardboard box so I could save up the bullets to use again. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: pterosaur nesting. Industry For all intents and purposes, I just took the afternoon off to de- mailing lists: Gencon. BBS ok. Forum has 17 active topics. stress. APOD has a 40-year-old moon picture. Sudoku 3:30. Web crawl ======completed at 10:23. Lunch: fish at Furr’s. Out box has 44 emails. MidY ships sent to FCOL: F269-F272 (last ones!). MY DAY: 22 July (Wednesday) 2009 Email: Robert Gamble about another game company. Got to the office at 8:17am. Weather is 65F and raining. Project Fabulous: Meeting with possible partners 3-7pm. ======rain. It did rain last night, so I guess this is just the end of that. I really enjoyed dinner with my old chaplain last night. MY DAY: 26 July (Sunday) 2009 Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Cretaceous Arctic. Industry Lunch: Leanna cooked steak & potatoes. mailing lists: how to promote a game website. BBS: ok. Forum: Got to the office at 2:15pm. Weather is 93F, partly cloudy. 20 actives. APOD has an eclipse photo. Sudoku 3:27. Ann Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Phorusrhacids. Industry mailing Coulter about invented Liberal “facts” in the Cambridge case. lists: World of Warcraft RPG. BBS is ok. Forum has 17 active Web crawl completed at 9:11. Lunch: awful turkey at J’s; I had to topics. APOD has a corona image. Sudoku 3:01, very good! Web be dragged there. Starlist no requests. Out box has 45 emails. crawl completed at 2:51. Out box has 45 emails. Work sent to Eric: Business advice page. Read FYEO for 9-11 Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Went home at 3pm. July. Ships sent to FCOL: Fed BCP Fleet. Worked with Steve ======Petrick on battlegroup for CL40. Exercise: Strider-70. MY DAY: 27 July (Monday) 2009 Email: Jean sent in the last article for CL39-Sup. Today’s rumor (that a contract between two other companies stops ADB Got to the office at 8:27am. Weather is cloudy with rain. from doing something) is as hilarious as most rumors (and legally Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Gwangisaurus. Industry mailing impossible). Paul Cordeiro about FC scenarios. Mike Bennett lists: Gencon. BBS: ok. Forum: 6 actives. APOD has a about fiction. Some moron trying to sell me a service for “labor spectacular galaxy. Sudoku 3:34. Web crawl completed at 9:57. law updates”. Jean’s reminders and reports. Email from-to die Lunch: salmon at Logan’s. Starlist UK BS7 0UL. Out box has 46 cutting on why the two versions of the same quote are so emails. Read FYEO for 1-2-3 July. Worked with Steve Petrick on different. Jay Waschak about a fiction story. G3A finalization. Primary work: Exchanged memos on PD status with Jean. Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Report from a Ranger. Eric fixed a typo on the SSJ page (494), and another one on Notes from Paul Franz about counters for FCOL. the about page (495); added links to master index (496). Primary work: Worked on CL39 supplementary file. Major staff meeting to review countersheet plans and set the Project Fabulous: Long memo to one of the possible schedule. Some details won’t be set until tomorrow, but it seems partners about how this could be done. most likely that we will print Hydran Attack in October and F&E ======2010 in November. MY DAY: 28 July (Tuesday) 2009 Project Fabulous: Conversation on project philosophy with Got to the office at 9am. Weather is 75F with a few clouds. a key team member who mistakenly thought I was a liberal. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: energetics. Industry mailing Went home at 6pm. lists: Google copyright lawsuit. BBS: ok. Forum: 17 actives. ======APOD has a vivid aurora. Sudoku 3:38. Web crawl completed at MY DAY: 31 July (Friday) 2009 12:17. Lunch: KFC. Out box 46 emails. Read FYEO for 4-5 June. Got to the office at 8:15am. Weather is 70F and partly Email: Jean about Paul Scott’s inaccuracies, stunts, and cloudy. Note that this is the weather at 8:15; it will get hotter. mis-statements; I let her handle this, mostly. Mike West’s report Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Theropod pelvic muscles. for CL39 Supplemental. Jean’s regular reports and reminders. Industry mailing lists: Gencon. BBS: ok. Forum: 18 actives. Annual meeting with Kyocera dealer; went well. APOD has Jupiter impact scar. Sudoku 3:17. Web crawl Primary work: Worked on the CL39 supplementary file for completed at 9:02. Lunch: BBQ at Country Barn. Starlist none. most of the day. Took a stack of stuff to read home at 6:30. Out box has 43 emails. Read FYEO for 12-13-14-15 July (16 ======days behind). Ships sent to FCOL: Fed BCP Sqdn. Sent to Eric: Captain’s Log index through #39. Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Peter Montroy about a newsletter subscription. Another game company about a printer MY DAY: 29 July (Wednesday) 2009 we use. A bunch of greeting eCard virus stuff. Revised seeking Got to the office at 8:15am. Weather is 75F and cloudy. weapon minis prices from Bruce Graw. Internet was off line. I restarted the router and it worked ok. Primary work: CL#39 Flap List: Did CapLog index and gave Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: earliest ancestor of humans. it to Eric to upload. Industry mailing lists: Google copyright lawsuit. BBS: ok. Forum: CL#39 Supplementary File: Made ship fixes from Mike West 10 actives. APOD has a stupid skyline photo. Sudoku 3:18. Web and others. Installed Petrick’s revised FCEY rules file. I did crawl completed at 9:33. Lunch: Der Weinerschnitzel (never Jean’s fixes to one of the articles. Made all of Petrick’s fixes and again!). Starlist 00745. Out box has 46 emails. Read FYEO for 6- sent some pages to Jean. 7-8 July. Project Fabulous: Reviewed a similar publication in another Email: Joe Carlsson about BBS. Daniel Kast about state. Discussed website promotions with project webmaster. Starmada. Mike West about FCEY conversions. Chuck Strong’s Went home at 6pm with a stack of stuff to read. report for CL39SF. Jean’s daily reports and reminders. ======Old Email: (269 remain after morning triage, 243 when I got MY DAY: 1 Aug (Saturday) 2009 done): Notice of a store that closed; removed from storelist. Did a Got to the office at 10am. Weather is 75F, a few clouds. lot of other stuff on old mail. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Monolophosaurus, new Primary work: Progress on CL39 Supplemental: I had it all chinese Jurassic theropod. Industry mailing lists: Retailer mailing done last night except for the history page (still waiting for Jean), lists. BBS: busy. Forum: 9 actives. APOD has a spectacular Chuck’s report (received and inserted), and the FCEY ships. I supernoval remnant. Sudoku 3:29. Web crawl completed at sent pages out to be proofread. Did the three FCEY ships and 11:10. Lunch: Furr’s (fish with veggies). Starlist NR. Out box has the squadron scale Fusilier and gave them to Petrick at 2pm. 43 emails. Work sent to Eric: Back of ISC painting Guides. Read Project Fabulous: Got the contact info for a printing FYEO for 16-17-18-19 July. Ships sent to FCOL: Orion BR. company that might be able to handle the project. Worked with Steve Petrick on reviewing victory articles. Left at 6pm to have dinner with the chaplain of my old Guard Email: Mike West’s last fix on FCEY ship cards (it had unit, who serves as “my confessor” when I’m feeling upset about BETTER be his last). Lots of Jean reports on CL39Sup. George jerks on the BBS or start shooting employees. Ghan about maps. Jean’s reports and reminders. ======Went home in mid-afternoon to go shopping with Leanna MY DAY: 30 July (Beer Summit Day) 2009 and work in the yard. Got to the office at 7:47am. Weather is 65F, cloudy, trying to ======Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Cassowaries. Industry mailing MY DAY: 2 Aug (Sunday) 2009 lists: Gencon. BBS: 26. Forum: 12 actives. APOD: Betelgeuse. Got to the office at 3:30. Weather is 95F, a few clouds. Sudoku 3:09. Web crawl completed at 10:51. Lunch: BBQ at Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Carniadactylus. Industry Country Barn. Starlist NR. Out box has 31 emails. Work sent to mailing lists: retailer mailing lists. BBS: ok. Forum: 12 actives. Eric: links to add. Read FYEO for 29-30-31 July. Ships sent to APOD: Gorgeous nebula. Sudoku 3:21. Web crawl completed at FCOL: Orion DBR. 4:12. Lunch: Leanna cooked chicken and potatoes. Starlist NR. Email: A bunch of stuff from Jean on K20M. Jean’s reports, Out box has 46 emails. Work sent to Eric: Orion slaver painting but she forgot to send the reminders file (I remembered anyway). guides. Read FYEO for 20 July. Ships sent to FCOL: Orion DW. Got an article on play-by-internet from Tony Cutcliffe which I Worked with Steve Petrick on CL40. Exercise: Walked Ramses. cannot really understand, but sounds amusing. I asked Paul Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Franz to tell me what it means. It’s Sunday, and I did not stay long enough to do more than Primary work: Progress on F&E-2010: did the 27 July the daily routine stuff so I don’t have a double load tomorrow. Archive. Did the 28 July Archive. ======Communique #44: Finished the Klingon Tug. MY DAY: 3 Aug (Monday) 2009 CL#39 Flap List: Somebody found two glitches in the CL#39 supplemental file, so we fixed them and re-uploaded it. Got to the office at 7:47am. Weather is 75F and clear. Spent two hours at the dentist having that crown put on. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: illustrators. Industry mailing Went home at 7pm. lists: NA. BBS: ok. Forum: 13 actives. APOD: birth of a star. ======Sudoku 3:14. Web crawl completed at 8:57. Lunch: salmon at Logan’s. Starlist NR. Out box has 46 emails. Work sent to Eric: MY DAY: 6 Aug (Thursday) 2009 missing Klingon painting guides. Read FYEO for 21-22-23-24 Got to the office at 8:45am. Weather: 79F, few high clouds. July. Ships sent to FCOL: Orion BC. Worked with Steve Petrick Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Pterosaur hair. Industry mailing and Jean Sexton on a memo. lists: GenCon. BBS: ok, 35. Forum: 16 actives. APOD: galaxies Email: A note from my cousin in Denver about seeing each in Pegasus. Sudoku 3:34. Ann Coulter is ranting about other when I am there for that game convention. Douglas J. conspiracy theories. Web crawl completed at 10:26. Lunch: Romero thanked me for solving his BBS log-in issue. Jean’s Barnaby’s. Starlist 11370. Out box has 27 emails. Work sent to reports and reminders. Eric: Revised gorn sublight BB. Read FYEO for 1-2-3-4-5 Aug. Staff Meeting: Set schedule and sent confidential memo to Ships sent to FCOL: Orion Slaver, Free Traitor; Commercial department heads to see if anybody has a problem before the Platform. Target shooting today was really awful; I must be schedule is published. Also sent individual memos to department distracted. heads with key information relating to their projects. Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Loren about F&E. Primary work: Progress on F&E-2010: 22+23 July archives. Primary work: Progress on F&E-2010: Processed the two CL#39 Supplemental File: Jean’s reports on the FCEY ships. archives for 30 July. Project Fabulous: Meeting with advertising director. CL#39 Flap List: Sent Leanna the high-def PDFs to print the Stopped working at 6pm, did some target shooting, cleaned hard copies. She put it on the shopping cart and I added a up a few files on my desk, and eventually went home. product description. ======Communique #44: Selected Lyran DNL for large format, and MY DAY: 4 Aug (Tuesday) 2009 Seltorian CA for the revised ship. Klingon d20M: did the first 11 pages. Got to the office at 8:14am. Weather is nice. Drove around with Leanna looking at warehouses we might Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Avian descent from buy to replace the one we are renting. Called Realtor to look at maniraptoran coelurosaurian theropods. Industry mailing lists: one of them. Gencon. BBS: 21. Forum: 12 actives. APOD: sunset (huh?). Project Fabulous: One of the guys trying to start a local Sudoku 3:30. Web crawl completed at 9:29. Lunch: CFS at conservative newspaper thinks I am arrogant (that’s about the bowling alley; I don’t think I had been there since we changed nicest of the things he said) because I won’t give his buddy my buildings. Starlist NR. Out box has 46 emails (dropped to 32 as money without any conditions or strings. (Apparently, the buddy Eric cleared old work orders). Work sent to Eric: Missing Tholian has been claiming that I will do so; my refusal was a surprise.) painting guides. Read FYEO for 25-26-27-28 July. Ships sent to I left at 6:45pm to go to the Tea Party committee meeting. FCOL: Orion BCH. ======Email: Hernan about Asteroid Zero Four. Jay W about the Fed Admiral project. Sent FCB3 ship card list to Mike W, Mike F, MY DAY: 7 Aug (Friday) 2009 and Jay W. Mike West, Jay W, and Jean Sexton signed off on Got to the office at 8am. Weather: 75F, partly cloudy. the schedule. Another artist looking for work. Scott Johnson with Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Tinker the teenage T-rex. sublight ships. Phone call from Gorilla Games. Industry mailing lists: Gencon. BBS: 26, ok. Forum: 21 actives. Primary work: Progress on F&E-2010: 24 July archive. APOD: individual stars in a galaxy a long way away. Sudoku CL#39 Supplemental File: Did Jean’s changes. Finished it 3:23. Web crawl completed at 9:01. Lunch: Arby’s. Starlist NR. and sent it to Eric, who uploaded it. Out box has 29 emails. Work sent to Eric: Cadet base station. Conference with Eric on doing the computer version of Star Read FYEO for 6-7 Aug (caught up!). Ships sent to FCOL: both Fleet Battle Force. Q-ships. Target shooting with M16 scored 97 (18 x5, 1x4, 1x3). Did the Squadron version of the Klingon Tug for FC. Exercise: Leanna dragged me to the “garage sale” at the Project Fabulous: Told one of the guys trying to put this civic center. (Two or three times a year, a radio station rents the plan (for a local conservative newspaper) together that I was not place and sells booths, so it’s like 300 garage sales in one air going to invest money in a company he is going to run; if he conditioned place.) I spent $1.25 on a book and a do-dad. wants my money, I’ll be in a senior leadership role. Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. A ton of stuff from Went home at 7pm. Jean on K20M. Mike W and Art T about ships for communique. ======Dan Carroll (who used to do art for us a million years ago) with MY DAY: 5 Aug (Wednesday) 2009 some new art of his. Matt Galer about Dragon Con. Shopping Cart: This was down most of the day, apparently Got to office at 9:20am. Weather is 85F and clear. Today in a directed denial of service attack on the server farm. 1864, Farragut damned the torpedoes and went full speed Primary work: Progress on F&E-2010: 31 July archive. ahead. Communique #44: Finished it, printed it out, and gave it to Petrick to review, but he didn’t get a chance to do that. enter the products into the accounting. Klingon d20M: Got to page 31 making Jean/JT’s fixes. Primary work: Communique #44 (10 Aug): Finished, Went home at 6pm. My left eye is hurting me, a lot. PDFed, sent to Eric. He uploaded it. ======CL#39 Flap List: Officially blew off sending review copies. Updated the Text Catalog and sent it to Eric. MY DAY: 8 Aug (Saturday) 2009 Squadron Box #91 (24 Aug): Told Eric to go shoot the photo Got to the office at 8:05am. Weather: 75F, thin clouds. for the back cover so Mike can start packing these. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: bargain books. Industry mailing Communique #45 (10 Sept): Selected/placed Hydran DNH. lists: Gencon. BBS: whatever. Forum: 12 actives. APOD: eclipse. F&E Sheet W (19 Oct): Posted the notice on the site that this Sudoku 3:31. Web crawl completed at 8:53. Lunch: enchiladas. would be done this fall. Starlist NR. Out box has 30 emails. Work sent to Eric: More Went home at 6:30pm. cadet ships, links on cadet page to the fleet scale ships in ======commander’s circle. Read FYEO for today. Ships sent to FCOL: 123, 124. Target shooting: 98 out of 100. MY DAY: 11 Aug (Tuesday) 2009 Email: Lots of K20M stuff from Jean, plus daily reports and Got to the office at 9:35. (Due to my medication, each night reminders. is a series of 90-minute naps. On Leanna’s orders, I am taking an Primary work: Actually, I pretty much took the afternoon off, extra one each morning.) Weather: 75F and light rain. cleaning up my office and files, puttering, de-stressing. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Phorusrhacids. Industry mailing Communique #44: Emailed it to the staff after making lists: Gencon. BBS: 29 ok. Forum: 12 actives. APOD: meteor Petrick’s changes. crater in Arizona (been there, twice). Sudoku 3:44. Web crawl Like I said, I didn’t work in the afternoon, and plan to stay completed at 10:23. Lunch: baked cod at Calico. Starlist NR. Out home tomorrow. (Did anybody notice I was pretty stressed out?) box has 30 emails. Work sent to Eric: corrections to cadet page. So I guess when I went home didn’t matter much. Read FYEO for today. Ships sent to FCOL: 127 SeaHawk, 128 ======Monitor. Target shooting: 98.5, best this month. Email: Jean about K20M. Somebody about G3. Mike B MY DAY: 9 Aug (Sunday) 2009 about Juggy. Jay W about Fed Admiral campaign books. Joe W I did not go to the office at all, or even check the BBS from about defective parts. Die cutter about which quote is right. home. I stayed home and relaxed. We watched some four-hour Primary work: Updated the product release schedule and chick flick on Hallmark Channel. Leanna cooked turkey for lunch got it posted on the BBS. and her famous hamburgers for supper. I went back to APOD the CL#39 Flap List: Added the ships to the F&E SITs. Posted next day and found a fascinating photo of Iapetus, a moon of the F&E Q&A and Rulings. Saturn. Pity that I have had to come to grips with the idea that Module G3A (24 Aug): Worked up the cover specs. when men land on the moons of Saturn, I won’t be here. I wonder Squadron Box #91 (24 Aug): This project is complete and if I’ll even make it to the Mars landing, or the next Moon landing. ready for release. ======Communique #45 (10 Sept): Selected WYN DW for the MY DAY: 10 Aug (Monday) 2009 revised ship and placed it into the file. Starmada (14 Sept): Did not get the cover art from DK as he Got to the office at 9:45am. Weather: 80F with high thin missed the connection to Leanna (who has the FTP keys) by clouds. Leanna has directed that, to reduce stress, I shall not go about three minutes. We hope to get it tomorrow. to the office early or stay late this week, and that any Email which F&E Sheet W (19 Oct): Went through the file. Apparently, upsets me will be deleted or will wait for next week. As predicted nobody wants this and I can use the sheet for an SFB product. by Petrick, we had a heavy rain at 6pm. Rural Water Co-Op: Talked with the guy from the state Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: what was going on just before government, who cleared the way for me to fix this mess. the KT boundary. Industry mailing lists: GenCon. BBS: ok. Went home at 7pm. I was just here this late so that Eric Forum: 25 actives. APOD: a rainbow, are you freaking kidding could finish the newsletter, which was sent to Jean to check. me? Sudoku 3:53, way off my game. Web crawl completed at ======11am. Lunch: salmon at Logan’s. Starlist NR. Out box has 30 emails. Work sent to Eric: Communique #44. Read FYEO for 9 MY DAY: 12 Aug (Wednesday) 2009 and 10 Aug (caught up). Ships sent to FCOL: 125 Lyran MP, Got to the office at 10:22am. That extra sleep is helping, and 125L LDR MP, 126 Gorn FF. Worked with Steve Petrick on it was “inventory the cat toys day” so I had to stay and help Isis reviewing Adam’s art for Booster 25, Module G3A, and Klingon and Ramses. Weather: 80F, a few high thin clouds. The last of Armada. Exercise: strider 60; target shooting 96.5. the rain was this morning; we sure enjoyed it. Email: Bruce Graw about minis production and his going to Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Protoavis. Industry mailing Gencon. Supportive emails from a dozen people concerned over lists: Gencon. BBS: 31 ok. Forum: 9 actives. APOD: nice galaxy. my health and state of mind (but some of them -- names I do not Sudoku 3:08. Web crawl completed at 12:08. Lunch: burger at recognize -- seem to think I need to buy a fake Rolex to cheer Brahm’s. Starlist NR. Out box has 29 emails. Work sent to Eric: myself up). Reports on Communique 44. Art from Adam. Jean’s corrections to miniatures page. Read FYEO for today. Ships sent BBS report for the 9th and 10th. A hilarious email from Glenn to FCOL: B29 OK6. Worked with Steve Petrick on G3A cover Hoepfner. Some art from Dan Carroll. A shocking revelation specs. Exercise: Strider 70. Target shooting: 97. about Jean which has forever changed my view of her world. Die Email: Daniel Kast about Starmada. Scott Johnson about cutter continues to confuse me, saying that two quotes which are sublight. Jean’s reports and reminders. $1350 different are “basically the same”. Matt Galer at Primary work: CL#39 Flap List: Updated the FC Master Dragoncon wanted some poster-art and found it on our website Ship Chart with the CL#39 ships and with communique ships download pages. back to #31 which had never been added to the MSC. This Old Email: (291 remain after morning triage, 274 when I got project also required me to create the FCEY-MSC, and while I tired of working on this): I answered a key Starmada Email that was at it I also did the FCMY-MSC and sent all three to Eric to got misfiled. Support request from Nuke Con. Answered some upload. This took about three “core design time” hours but questions about Orions that provoked some evil thoughts. finished the CL39 flap list. Staff meeting: Decided to try, one more time, to get the list Module G3A (24 Aug): Sent Eric the full workup cover specs. of things to do organized, and actually do the things on the list. Eric got Hailing Frequencies finished and sent out. Set the release schedule. Set the stock # for Fed Admiral. Booster #91 (24 Aug): Sent an Email to Adam to get the art I Leanna had me pull the Starmada contract so she knows how to thought we had for the counters on the back (we don’t have it). Starmada (14 Sept): Sent Daniel the FTP codes to send us Local Conservative Newspaper: I have completed my the cover art. Discussed distribution contract. survey of this business opportunity and have decided not to Went home: 6pm, with card games to pack. participate in it because I don’t think the other people involved ======know how to run a business. Went home at 6pm because Leanna thought I was starting MY DAY: 13 Aug (Thursday) 2009 to fray around the edges. Got to the office at 8:45am (but I went to be early, so my ======stress-reduction plan is intact). Weather: 70F, cloudy, rain in AM. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Pteranodon. Industry mailing MY DAY: 15 Aug (Saturday) 2009 lists: Gencon. BBS: ok. Forum: 18 actives. APOD: meteorite on Got to the office at 10am. Weather: 77F and clear. Mars! Sudoku 3:38. Ann Coulter ran out of interesting column Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Climate change. Industry ideas. Web crawl completed at 9:47. Lunch: Barnaby’s. Starlist mailing lists: Gencon. BBS: ok. Forum: 11 actives. APOD: stupid NR. Out box has 28 emails. Work sent to Eric: Covers, ships to skyline photo. Sudoku 3:40. Web crawl completed at 2:43. add to commander’s circle (ISC FF, Lyran BCH, Romulan WE, Lunch: Furr’s (the good one). Starlist NR. Out box has 35 emails. Fed DDM, Klingon E7D, E7J). Read FYEO for today. Ships sent Work sent to Eric: Repeated called to find out why he was not to FCOL: B30 Orion DN. Worked with Steve Petrick on covers. here when he said he would be. Read FYEO for today. Ships Target shooting: 99, best ever, but not perfect. sent to FCOL: Vudar CA. Target shooting: 98. Email: Paul Franz says the FC counters he got from Tony T Email: Jean’s reports. A note from Daniel Kast. are good to go. Robert Pomroy about decals. Jean Sexton and Primary work: I did what work I could on the five covers that Gary Plana about K20M. Jean’s BBS report. Sent Jean a note to Eric was supposed to finish on Thursday and has still not create a Starmada thing on the BBS. Randy Woods with FC finished; he did not show up. This is a problem that I will have to questions. Some Tea Party stuff. (Leanna thinks that the Tea solve. Party thing may fill the role of the State Guard in my life, giving FC Starship Guide: I set up a pagemaker file for it and me something to relax with.) inserted the Romulan Attack ships. Actually, I just hollowed out Stacks Report: the Romulan Attack rulebook. Primary work: Updated the GGIC spreadsheet. Went home at 7pm. Module G3A (24 Aug): Sent cover graphic to Eric. ======Booster #91 (24 Aug): Sent cover specs to Eric. FC Booster #25 (19 Oct): Sent cover specs to Eric. MY DAY: 16 Aug (Sunday) 2009 Starmada (14 Sept): Got the cover from Daniel. Got to the office at 5pm. Weather: 90F and clear. Klingons d20M (14 Sept): Reviewed Vergarian and Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Impact. Industry mailing lists: Bargantine files. Sent Jean some data she needed. Gencon. BBS: ok. Forum: 18 actives. APOD: boring. Sudoku NR. Starline 2400: Leanna and I reviewed seeking weapon Web crawl completed at 6pm. Lunch: Leanna fixed roast. Starlist prices, packaging, and so forth and came up with a workable NR. Out box has 36 emails. Read FYEO for today. Exercise: plan. I sent that to Todd so we can compare notes. Walked the Cat. Left work at: 5pm, I need to pick up some new reading Email: Jean’s reports. Dale McKee about the Hood. glasses, then have dinner with my old chaplain before going to Went home at 7pm. the Tea Party meeting. ======MY DAY: 17 Aug (Monday) 2009 MY DAY: 14 Aug (Friday) 2009 Got to the office at 8:30. Weather: 76F and cloudy. Got to the office at 10:40am, the last day of my “sleep late to Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Impact. Industry mailing lists: de-stress” week. Weather: 80F and a few clouds. Gencon. BBS: ok. Forum: 7 actives. APOD: meteor trails. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: new papers published. Industry Sudoku 3:30. Web crawl completed at 12:31. Lunch: salmon at mailing lists: Gencon. BBS: ok. Forum: 16 actives. APOD: stupid Logan’s. Starlist NR. Out box has 37 emails. Read FYEO for skyline photo. Sudoku 3:37. Web crawl completed at 1:42. Today. Ships sent to FCOL: B10-Squadron, battlestation-fleet. Lunch: Furr’s (the yucky one that Leanna likes). Starlist NR. Out Worked with Leanna on covers. Target shooting: 94. box has 33 emails. Work sent to Eric: Starmada covers. Read Email: Daniel Kast about Starmada fonts. The newspaper FYEO for today. Ships sent to FCOL: B31 Orion CA. Worked with guys wanting me to write them an article. Jean’s reminders and Steve Petrick on Battle Group for CL40. Exercise: Strider-60. reports. Jean about K20M Bargaintines. False statements on Target shooting: 95 (score dropped when I tried to pick up the Ebay reported to Ebay fraud squad. WTAMU about interns. speed and shoot faster). Aleksander Rødner about postage to Norway. Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Primary work: Prepped a bunch of ships for FCOL, so that I I had a bizarre phone call from Sam Lowry. Seems Parker don’t have to stop every morning and do just one. Brothers gave him our phone number and told him to work Module G3A (24 Aug): Finalized the cover; sent it to press. through us to sell his product to them, but it’s not a trek product Told Eric to do me one for advertising. (it’s some kind of toy with something about sketching pictures) so Booster #91 (24 Aug): Finalized the cover; sent it to press. I have no idea and assume they gave him the wrong number. Told Eric to do me one for advertising. Scott Johnson got upset because Scott Johnson sent me the Booster #25 (19 Oct): Finalized the cover; sent it to press. wrong files and Eric posted them to the sublight page. Starmada (14 Sept): Finalized the cover; sent it to press. Primary work: I packed 50 copies of SFBF last night Told Eric to do me one for advertising. watching television after the tea party meeting. Klingon Armada (14 Sept): Finalized cover; sent it to press. Starmada Admiral Core Rulebook (release 14 Sept): Did the Told Eric to do me one for advertising. cover specs for Eric, who did the cover. Boosters #92-#95: Sent the staff a memo on ship selection. Klingon Armada (release 14 Sept): Did the cover specs for Starline 2400 (Varies): Sent memo to Todd (again) about the Eric, who did the cover. drones so I can make the announcement. Module G3A (release 24 Aug): cover completed. Communique #45 (10 Sept): Did the fleet scale version of Booster #91 (release 24 Aug): cover completed. the KD5R. Booster #25 (release 19 Oct): cover completed. Klingons d20M (14 Sept): Jean and Gary finally fixed the Captain’s Log #40 (7 Dec): Approved the Battle Group thing. Bargantines. Communique #45 (10 Sept): I did the squadron-scale Went home at 6pm. Romulan KD5R ======fixes and countersheet stuff. Read FYEO for today. Ships sent to MY DAY: 18 Aug (Tuesday) 2009 FCOL: King Condor, E7D. Worked with Steve Petrick on G3A. Got to the office at 8:50. Weather: 66F, cloudy, bits of rain Exercise: I skipped because tonight is the company dinner and I can be seen in several directions. didn’t want to get sweaty. Target shooting: 98.5. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Legendary Pictures plans new Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Adam got the word to Godzilla movie. Industry mailing lists: D&D-related attempted do the missing counter art. Daniel Kast about the Klingon murder. BBS: ok. Forum: 10 actives. APOD: stupid skyline photo. Armada cover. Mike West report on FCHA counters. Unusually Sudoku 3:20. Web crawl completed at 10:18. Lunch: Wendy’s. large order from Esdevium. Starlist NR. Out box has 38 emails. Work sent to Eric: New BBS Status Report, 24 Aug releases: Booster #91 (no change). map done by Howard Bampton. Read FYEO for today. Ships Squadron Box #91 (done). Module G3A (final layout in progress). sent to FCOL: Klingon D5S. Worked with Steve Petrick on G3A. Primary work: Wrote the star fleet alert (G3A, booster 91, Exercise: strider 70. Target shooting: 94. squadron box 91) and sent it to Jean to proofread. Keep Email: Jean’s daily reports and reminders. Mike West about hounding Eric to get the website work orders done. booster selections. Daniel K about Starmada. Some stuff from Countersheets (to press 1 Sept): I figured out that the the local newspaper guys (I sent them an article on Arab culture.) drawing I had of the new counter layout wasn’t accurate and Status Report, 24 Aug releases: Booster #91 (cards asked for a new one. MPS sent me a computer file I cannot open printed, cover at printer). Squadron Box #91 (everything on hand, so I asked them for another version. covers, packaging to commence). Module G3A (cover at printer, Module G3A (24 Aug): Talked to Petrick as he finished the final page layout in progress). table of contents. Primary work: Communique #45 (10 Sept): did Klingon D7E Starline 2400 (Varies): Went over the cost day and Todd’s and gave it to Petrick to check. plans and came up with the packages we plan to release. Countersheets (to press 1 Sept): Did the unit selections and Klingon Armada (14 Sept): Talked with Daniel about when to text for the FCHA and FCB9 sheets and sent them to the staff to send me the final version. check the designations, unit numbers, and ship descriptions. Klingons d20M (14 Sept): Jean seems to have done the Module G3A (24 Aug): Yitlians and Vudar. Starmada and Klingon Armada (14 Sept): Checked proofs of Left the office at 6pm to go to the company Origins Victory the covers at Trafton-Cenveo. Dinner and that should last until 9pm. FC Briefing #3 (16 Nov): Did the Klingon D7E. ======Went home at: 7pm. ======MY DAY: 21 Aug (Friday) 2009 Got to the office at 8:10am. Weather: 70F and clear. MY DAY: 19 Aug (Wednesday) 2009 Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: dinosaur body mass. Industry Got to the office at 8:35. Weather: 68F and clear. mailing lists: PAX. BBS: ok. Forum: 7 actives. APOD: galaxies! Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Pterosaur landings. Industry Sudoku 2:53, a very good time. Web crawl completed at 9am. mailing lists: CDC study on video gamers says that are 35, Lunch: Arby’s. Starlist 20602. Out box has 26 emails. Work sent overweight, and depressed. BBS: ok. Forum: 11 actives. APOD: to Eric: I had better find something, as he is caught up on work some kind of nebula. Sudoku 3:12. Web crawl completed at 9:49. orders and is taking the day off. Read FYEO for today. Ships Lunch: BBQ at Country Barn. Starlist NR. Out box has 36 emails. sent to FCOL: Fleet scale B10, Klingon SD7. Worked with Steve Work sent to Eric: two fixes to typos. Read FYEO for today. Petrick on G3A. Exercise: Carrying boxes. Target shooting: 96. Ships sent to FCOL: D1 Fed BB, Gorn Carrier. (I just cannot stop Email: UPS set a note that the minis ordered from Bruce are working on these, since it’s fun, easy, and brainless to convert a en route. Vanessa sent a photo of her new baby. Jean’s BBS ship card to the FCOL version.) Worked with Steve Petrick on report and reminders of stuff to do. MPS sent a die pattern I can G3A. Exercise: Strider-70. Target shooting: 97.5. actually use. Email: Jean’s reports. Paul Franz about SFBOL. Jean and Primary work: Made Jean’s fixes to star fleet alert 90821 Gary about Vudar. FC staff wants coalition to get the non-combat and sent it to Mike to email and to Eric to post on line. Posted tugs, not the armed versions. cover art on BBS. The covers arrived, and the printer screwed up Status Report, 24 Aug releases: Booster #91 (no change). and trimmed them to size instead of leaving them oversized for Squadron Box #91 (done). Module G3A (final layout in progress). the trimmer to take care of. We don’t know yet if they have to be Primary work: Personally did quality control check on 800 done over. map panels before they went into games; rejected about 100. F&E-2010 (16 Nov): I set up the pagemaker master file, and Countersheets (to press 1 Sept): Changed Kzinti, Lyran, and did the “warbook” version of the table of contents, and sent that Klingon tugs to the non-combat types. to the staff. Hey, it’s a start. I pulled the Q&A and Ruling files out Module G3A (24 Aug): Worked with Petrick on final layout. of CL#30 through CL#39 and put them into one word file so I can Communique #45 (10 Sept): Made Petrick’s fixes to D7E. reformat them into an actual change list. I starting working Klingons d20M (14 Sept): Jean finished the Bargantines and through this, reformatting stuff that was Q&A-ish into actual ruling seems to have the Vudar under control. line items, and got through 7 of the 14 pages. Hydran Attack, Boosters 25-26-27 (19 Oct): Eric got the Countersheets (to press 1 Sept): Got a workable die layout. megahex counters 90% done. We have to order more ship icons FC Starship Guide: Inserted the ships from Klingon Attack. from Adam. Starmada (14 Sept): We printed the first test book today (to FC Briefing #3 (16 Nov): Added several Campaign- warm up the bookbinder). Conjectural ships to the list. Module G3A (24 Aug): Steve P worked on this all day. (He FC Starship Guide: Inserted ships from Klingon Border. got wrapped up in Paul Scott’s articles and lost most of a week Went home at 7pm. that should have been spent on G3A). We’re about to wrap this ======up. MY DAY: 20 Aug (Thursday) 2009 Booster #91 (24 Aug): The covers came in and Mike loaded cartons of this stuff in my car so I can do them watching TV (and Got to the office at 8:40. Weather: 70F and clear. maybe then I won’t eat constantly). Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Tianyuraptor. Industry mailing Klingon Armada (14 Sept): The covers came in. lists: PAX. BBS: ok. Forum: 10 actives. APOD: a photo of some I went home at 6:30pm to pack Booster #91 and watch TV. buildings? Sudoku 3:22. Ann Coulter exposed liberal lies abut ======healthcare. Web crawl completed at 9:31. Lunch: Whataburger. Starlist NR. Out box has 36 emails. Work sent to Eric: website MY DAY: 22 Aug (day) 2009 Got to the office at 9:08. Weather: 75F and clear. emails. Work sent to Eric: BBS fixes, FLAP list items, updates to Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Dino hunt in Angola. Industry just released page, updates to schedule page. Read FYEO for mailing lists: ancient dice. BBS: quiet. Forum: 4 actives. APOD: today. Ships sent to FCOL: Gorn battleship (squadron), Klingon nebula! Sudoku 3:39 (without the brute force computer system, D6M squadron, Romulan Vulture (both scales). I have to force 19:050. Web crawl completed at 10:16. Lunch: Furr’s; roast pork myself to just do three cards per day as I have other things to do. and veggies. Starlist NR. Out box has 25 emails. Work sent to Steve Petrick worked on CL40. Target shooting: 96.5. Eric: link to ancient dice. Read FYEO for today. Ships sent to Email: Jean on K20M. Jean’s reports. FCOL: Kzinti battleship (both), large armed freighter (sq), Primary work: Updated the master fall schedule memo. Romulan KD5R (both). Worked with Steve Petrick on G3A. Countersheets (to press 1 Sept): I got the Fed, Klingon, Target shooting: 95. Orion, Romulan, and Tholian counters done for F&E 2010. Email: Jean’s reports & reminders. Daniel K about starmada Module G3A (24 Aug): Shipped to wholesalers. Did the Primary work: I actually got some work done. I had not FLAP list. expected to; I expected to work on G3A all day, but Petrick had it Booster #91 (24 Aug): Shipped to wholesalers. Did the FLAP pretty much under control, just needing me to check some stuff. list. Countersheets (to press 1 Sept): I set up the basic layout Squadron Box #91 (24 Aug): Shipped to wholesalers. Did and need to have MPS check it before I do a lot of work. the FLAP list. Module G3A (24 Aug): After many adventures, we started Klingons d20M (14 Sept): Answered Jean’s questions on ear printing books at 2:30. We will print more tomorrow and Monday. of the emperor. Sent her the dagger text. Discussed which Booster #91 (24 Aug): I packed what we needed last night. daggers can be thrown, slashed, or stabbed. F&E-2010 (16 Nov): I finished converting all “rulings” from Hydran Attack, Boosters & Squadron Boxes 25-26-27 (19 CL#31-#39 into line items, but that still leaves 18 pages of stuff in Oct): Discussed covers with Adam. (We have HA and B25.) Q&A (covering CL#31-#39) which need to be converted into F&E-2010 (16 Nov): I worked on converting the Q&A file into rulings. I converted one page of that. action line items (deleting those in which no action is needed) Klingons d20M (14 Sept): Discussed Vudar with Jean and and got this down to 15 pages. Gary Plana. FC Briefing #3 (16 Nov): Discussed cover with Adam. Captain’s Log #40 (7 Dec): Discussed possible solutions to Captain’s Log #40 (7 Dec): Discussed with Petrick. the fiction shortage, and the tactics shortage, and Border Box #9 (7 Dec): Discussed cover with Adam. FC Starship Guide: Inserted ships from Romulan Border. Staff meeting to discuss work schedule. Went home at 7pm. Stopped at 6pm to go home and do some maintenance on ======Leanna and her house. ======MY DAY: 25 Aug (Tuesday) 2009 Got to the office at 8:10. Weather: 75F partly cloudy. The MY DAY: 23 Aug (Sunday) 2009 Obama Administration announced it is more interested in a Got to the office at 4:12pm. Weather: 98F with a few puffy political witch hunt than in US security. clouds. Ten days to the Denver convention trip. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Camptosaurus. Industry Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Stegosaurus leg ratios. mailing lists: Ace of Cakes. BBS: ok. Forum: 9 actives. APOD: Industry mailing lists: PAX, D&D Wiki. BBS: OK. Forum: 12 rings of Saturn. Sudoku 3:26. Web crawl completed at 12:19. actives. APOD: galaxy cluster. Sudoku 3:02. Web crawl Lunch: chicken at Cheddars. Starlist NR. Out box has 35 emails. completed at 5:10. Lunch: Leanna cooked porkchops. Starlist Read FYEO for today. Ships sent to FCOL: Neo-Tholian NR. Out box has 27 emails. Read FYEO for today. Ships sent to battleship (fleet), Klingon D5D (both), Romulan Falcon FCOL: Gorn Battleship (Fleet), Gorn HDD Leader (both scales), (squadron). Target shooting: 97. small armed freighter (squadron). Worked with Steve Petrick on Email: Jean about K20M. Nuke Con wants cash for ads and guarding the building from the nearby Hells’ Angels Convention. we do not do that. Daniel Kast about the launch convention for Exercise: walked the cats and repaired the fence. Target Klingon Armada. Esdevium asked why we jumped from shooting: 97. booster/squadron 24 to 91. Email: Somebody’s BBS password got lost. I have got to Primary work: Took a half-hour off to get a haircut. I did the find out why those emails are going to me when I haven’t a clue star fleet alert for the fall schedule. Leanna figured out how to how to fix that. I sent it to Jean and Eric. Loren Knight about renew my onstar account. fiction. Jean about Vudar. Paypal says I have to reset my security Countersheets (to press 1 Sept): I finished the fronts of the code. Some criminal wants to use a stolen credit card to buy lots F&E sheets and posted them. and lots of my products (he doesn’t seem to know what our Klingon Armada (14 Sept): Sent Daniel some ship cards. products are) to be shipped to New Zealand. Jean’s BBS report. Klingons d20M (14 Sept): Daggers again. A new Nigeria scam. It seems that the client and his whole family Hydran Attack, Boosters 25-26-27 (19 Oct): Booster 26 art died in an air crash and I’m just one of his relatives in the US. received. Would I mind hunting them down and passing out the $14.7 Went home at 6pm with the Valdon file to read. million? ======Went home at 6pm to enjoy a quiet evening with Leanna. ======MY DAY: 26 Aug (Wednesday) 2009 MY DAY: 24 Aug (Monday) 2009 Got to the office at 8:30am. Weather: 70F and cloudy. Rest Got to the office at 8:20. Weather: 80F and clear. Nine days in Peace, Ted Kennedy; your family has paid enough. Today is until the Denver convention trip. Chuck Schumer totally cracked the anniversary of the Battles of Crecy and Tannenburg. Last me up this morning (I had to pull the car over until I could stop night, I packed another 200 Booster 91s because orders laughing) when he said that the president had “bent over exceeded expectations and we ran out before finishing the backwards to work with Republicans” on health care. (Yeah, “do wholesaler orders. it my way or else” sure is bending over backwards, and yeah, he Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Paper dinos. Industry mailing has the total support of the blue dogs. Riiiigggghhhht.) lists: website architecture. BBS: ok. Forum: 10 actives. APOD: Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: CretOlamna. Industry mailing Orion nebula. Sudoku 3:28. Web crawl completed at 10:24. lists: loyalty plans. BBS: quiet. Forum: 4 actives. APOD: Lunch: wonderfully delicious roast beef at Furr’s. Starlist NR. Out Clouds?!? Sudoku 3:47, just awful. Web crawl completed at 9:11. box has 37 emails. Work sent to Eric: art needed for ads, wolf Lunch: chopped steak at Logan’s. Starlist NR. Out box has 28 pictures, link fixes. Read FYEO for today. Ships sent to FCOL: Neo-Tholian BB squadron, Klingon G2 both, Romulan SPB on a contract for a future joint venture with another company. (carrier) squadron. Target shooting: 97. Starline 2400 (Varies): Todd says that the shuttle bronzes Email: My old chaplain asking about the Russians. Gary will be to Bruce on Monday, so I have ordered that master molds Plana about Tacticon. Daniel Kast about Starmada. Another old be spun up. friend wanting to find a private detective in Kashmir. Email and I went home at 7pm. phone calls with Denver Gamers about the convention. ======Staff meeting: Eric’s schedule, countersheet production, setting the prices for F&E 2010 ($60) and FCHA ($30). MY DAY: 29 Aug (Saturday) 2009 Primary work: Star Fleet alert sent to Jean to proof. Got to the office at 10:11 because Leanna thought I should Countersheets (to press 1 Sept): Corrections to sheets get another nap to avoid getting stressed by the counters. (My Alpha and Beta. Did the sheet for FCHA, which was a pain. whole night consists of a series of naps of 90-120 minutes due to Klingons d20M (14 Sept): Jean found major screwups with my medication.) Weather: 71F and clear. the Klingon infantry weapons in K20 that need fixing. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Jeholopterus, Herrerasaurus. FC Starship Guide: Inserted ships from Tholian Attack and Industry mailing lists: not much. BBS: ok. Forum: 8 actives. Battleships Attack. APOD: galaxy group. Sudoku 3:35. Web crawl completed at Went home at 8pm. 11:01. Lunch: Pizza. Starlist 30474. Out box has 28 emails. Work ======sent to Eric: Update to FAQ page, stuff for Hailing Frequencies. Read FYEO for today. Ships sent to FCOL: Seltorian BW MY DAY: 27 Aug (Thursday) 2009 squadron, Romulan SPC scout (both), fleet scale large freighter. Got to the office at 8:55am. Weather: 70F, whispy clouds. Target shooting: 99, a personal best. The ACLU committed 45 felonies, exposing CIA agents. Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Ankylosaur tail club. Industry Stacks Report: I ran through the entire website update list. mailing lists: websites. BBS: ok. Forum: 13 actives. APOD: Primary work: Countersheets (which go to press 1 Sept): worthless cloud/skyline photo. Sudoku 3:33. Ann Coulter refutes Spent more time shuffling F&E counters, including an hour on the more lies about health care. Web crawl completed at 10:18am. phone with Chuck. Lunch: BBQ at Country Barne. Starlist NR. Out box has 37 Communique #45 (10 Sept): Completed the issue and emails. Work sent to Eric: Star Fleet Alert. Read FYEO for today. emailed it to the staff with a stern warning not to send reports Ships sent to FCOL: Seltorian BW Fleet, Klingon E5D both, prior to my leaving town. Klingon D6V squadron. Target shooting: 96.5. Klingons D20M: Answered a slew of emails from Jean about Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Several items below. Klingon weapons. Primary work: With Jean’s report, I finished the Star Fleet Went home at 9pm. Alert and sent it to Mike to sent to everybody. Mike confirmed at ======3:30pm that it had been sent. Eric was uploading it. Countersheets (to press 1 Sept): Mike West solved the MY DAY: 30 Aug (Sunday) 2009 problem of what to do with excess FCHA counters. I did a bunch Got to the office at 11am. Weather: 74F and overcast. of work on the F&E sheets and whipped up the bases sheet. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Heterodontosaurs. Industry Starline 2400 (Varies): Todd Boyce has finished the mailing lists: noir artists. BBS: ok. Forum: 15 actives. APOD: shuttlecraft and will send it to Bruce so we can start making bacteria? Sudoku 3:42. Web crawl completed at 12:07. Lunch: molds of the fighters. turkey at Furr’s. Starlist NR. Out box has 36 emails. Work sent to Starmada (14 Sept): Daniel Kast sent the final Stamada file Eric: Asteroid sheets. Read FYEO for today. Ships sent to FCOL: so we can start printing those. starbase-fleet, Gorn CLE-both, planet killer-Fleet. Worked with Klingon Armada (14 Sept): Eric sent Daniel the cover art Steve Petrick on the situation in Sri Lanka. Target shooting: 95.5 which will be used as the cover for a local convention where the using “quickfire” and “snapshot” techniques. product will officially debut. Email: Jean’s reports. Loren Knight about fiction. Mike West Klingons d20M (14 Sept): Jean is sending me a lot of about the cloak-asteroid rules in FC, which contradict each other. memos that I hope I find time to read. Ordered replacements for defective minis. Hydran Attack, Boosters 25-26-27 (19 Oct): I finished the Primary work: Countersheets (which go to press 1 Sept): I countersheet and posted it. did the stuff so Eric can do the back of the two megahex sheets. I F&E Sheet W (19 Oct): Looks like we will do the bases sheet did the back of the bases sheet by 2pm, went to lunch, then did instead. I did it and posted it. the back of ALFA by 4:30pm, took a break to read FYEO, then Went to dinner at 7pm and home for a quiet evening. did BRAVO, and posted it at 6pm and made the first four fixes to ======mistakes on the back of ALFA. Klingons D20M: Jean is slowly going crazy since JT won’t do what he promised on the schedule he promised. I reviewed the MY DAY: 28 Aug (Friday) 2009 memo on the B10 and confirmed that she should fix the errors. Got to the office at 10:30am after taking my car in for minor Went home at 7:30pm as ordered. repairs and Leanna to a romantic breakfast. We ate way too ======much as it was very good. Weather: 80F and clear. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Oviraptorid. Industry mailing MY DAY: 31 Aug (Monday) 2009 lists: not much. BBS: ok. Forum: 7 actives. APOD: star cloud in Got to the office at 10:05; Leanna insisted on another sleep cephus. Sudoku 3:49, way off my game (too much breakfast, I cycle so that I will be rested for the long drive Wednesday. guess). Web crawl completed at 11:34. Lunch: never had it, too Weather: 65F and partly cloudy, unusually cool. much breakfast. Starlist NR. Out box has 30 emails. Read FYEO Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: government funding for for today. Ships sent to FCOL: none; Paul hasn’t confirmed paletontology. Industry mailing lists: Disney to buy Marvel. BBS: receipt of the last dozen so I don’t know if they’re getting through. ok. Forum: 20 actives. APOD: star cluster in Sagitarius. Sudoku Target shooting: 96.5. 3:35. Web crawl completed at 12:45. Lunch: chopped steak at Email: Daniel Kast needed something for Archon. Jay Logan’s. Starlist NR. Out box has 38 emails. Work sent to Eric: Waschak sent some kind of movie of the first iPhone game. everything he needs for the 10 September newsletter. Read Jean’s reports and reminders. Paul confirmed the ships at 5:30. FYEO for today. Ships sent to FCOL: starbase-Squadron, Orion Primary work: Countersheets (to press 1 Sept): Made Mike Medium Raider (both), Tholian BW Squadron. Target shooting: West’s changes to the FCHA counters. Mostly spent the entire 99. day shuffling F&E counters around. I did spent two hours working Email: Bruce about mold problems with minis production. Ryan Opel about getting copies of the SIT files. Mike West about already on the road and a call to his cell phone diverted him to an FC ruling. Apparently, Western Union has a money transfer the warehouse, where the problem was resolved. waiting for me to supply them my bank account number. I hope I We made it to the hotel in Denver and checked in. Then we remember to do that. Jean’s reports and reminders. Jay W sent set out to explore a city that I knew very well in my youth. We another demo iPod game. Kuzurikon is asking for support. My saw two stores that carry our games, the botanical gardens (just drug refill is ready (but at a pharmacy I never heard of?). Adam to see the dinosaur sculptures), the Museum (the Denver sent some more art which is incredibly cool. Museum of Natural History has evolved into the Denver Museum Primary work: Countersheets (to press 1 Sept): Sigh. All of Nature and Science, which means that the dinosaur exhibit freaking day chasing mistakes on F&E counters. And triangles. I has been reduced to a pathetic afterthought), and then spent the did the asteroids for the back of the single-sided half-inch FCHA afternoon and evening at the Rocky Mountain Wildlife counters. I got that DIS contract ready for the first step of review. Conservation Center, where rescued lions and tigers and nursed Wrote the iPhone contract and gave it to Petrick to read. He read to health and then allowed to roam in packs in 20-acre pens. them both and put them on Leanna’s desk. Petrick kept calling every 30 minutes about this or that until Klingons d20M (14 Sept): Does anybody know where the we turned the cell phones off. He said that the Tholian starbase mortar rules are? Jean is looking for them. got fixed and that the mistake Ryan found was the one we had Went home at 7:30pm. already fixed. ======MY DAY: 1 Sept (Tuesday) 2009 MY DAY: 4 Sept (Friday) 2009 Dinosaur list: Theropod footprints in Morocco. Industry 70th Anniversary of World War II begins mailing lists: Googlebooks. APOD: Saturn at various angles. Got to the office at 9am. Weather: 65F and high thin clouds. Denver Trip: We enjoyed a big breakfast, then spent the Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Fossil colors. Industry mailing day at the Denver Zoo. We generally had a swell time, but the lists: not much. BBS: ok. Forum: 10 actives. APOD: Saturn’s high heat left me desperate for a place to sit down after about 3 Rings. Sudoku 3:17. Web crawl completed at 10:20. Lunch: minutes on my feet. Fortunately, there were lots of benches. The chicken strips at Appleby’s with my Aunt Joyce. Starlist NR. Out Sea Lion show was disappointing, but then, all of the “shows” box has 37 emails. Work sent to Eric: Revise megahex sheets. were disappointing and the cats are in enclosures much too small Read FYEO for today. Ships sent to FCOL: Fed Old CA (both), for my liking. Klingon B9 Fleet, Klingon E7J (both). Target shooting: 98. We had dinner with my cousin Justin, who is also an Email: Bruce Graw about molds. Jean’s reports. Jay engineer. His delightful wife Cindi hit it off with Leanna when they Waschak about the Iphone contract (since the first game is ready discovered many previously unknown things they have in to upload). Ken Burnside sent in a sample of the Star Fleet common. The two had never had a chance to talk before. version of Squadron Strike. Wandered down to the convention and had a couple of Primary work: Leanna didn’t have time to read the contracts hours with Chuck Strong and Scott Moellmer. so she took them home to read tonight and we can email them in ======the morning before we go. Countersheets (to press 1 Sept): I got the key information MY DAY: 5 Sept (Saturday) 2009 from MPS (the die cutter) which will require Eric to do the two Dinosaur list: Dinosaurs from Niger. Industry mailing lists: sheets he has done over again, but that will work. The day was Somebody looking for a graphic designer. APOD: supernova very intense and stressful. First, we sent F&E-Bravo since it was remnant that is a cylinder, not a sphere. finished. Then, I made the D6V change to F&E-Alpha and we Denver Trip: I spent the day at Tacticon. Leanna shopped sent that. I sent Eric the F&E-bases sheet and the FCHA sheet I the dealer room, read her books, and took a nap, unwilling to had done for the half-inch scale. Eric modified the two megahex drive to the mall in Denver traffic. I happened to see some guys sheets he had done to account for the changed die. Eric then did playing INTRUDER, a game we published back in 1980. I talked the (gorgeous) asteroids for the back of the megahex sheets. to FC, SFBF, F&E, and SFB players. Nice chat with Gary Plana Then, we had to combine the “halves” into the “wholes” and about PD. Nice chat with Scott Moellmer about a lot of things. check them and fix the mistakes we found and check them again. LONG chat with Chuck about F&E 2010 and F&E Civil Wars. I wrote up the purchase order. Then we uploaded those to MPS Then, off to bed for a good night's sleep. and called it a day, a very trying day. ======Hydran Attack (19 Oct): Counters sent to press. F&E-2010 (16 Nov): Counters sent to press. MY DAY: 6 Sept (Sunday) 2009 Went home at 6:30pm to pack for the trip. Dinosaur list: new brachiosaurid. Industry mailing lists: not ======much. APOD: some kind of radiation map I don’t understand. Denver Trip: Spent the morning at Tacticon, had breakfast MY DAY: 2 Sept (Wednesday) 2009 with Scott Moellmer. Had a quiet drive home, and a less than Got to the office at 8:58. Weather: cool and clear. spectacular lunch in Raton. Got home at 7:30pm, watched some Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Angola. Industry mailing lists: television, and fell asleep. GPA nominations. BBS: ok. Forum: 10 actives. APOD: launch of ======a space shuttle. Out box has 37 emails. Work sent to Eric: Fix to tholian starbase. Did not read FYEO. Ships sent to FCOL: MY DAY: 7 Sept (Monday) 2009 Klingon b9 squadron, Tholian TK5 (both). Got to the office at 11am. Weather: 80F, high thin clouds. Email: Trip update from Gary Plana. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Bald eagles. BBS: ok. Ship Denver Trip: Left at 10am for Colorado. We got to Castle sent to FCOL: Klingon E5. Forum: 22 actives. APOD: worthless Rock without trouble, and had a long dinner chat with Daniel skyline. Sudoku 3:17. Web crawl completed at 12:28. Lunch: Kast. We got a good night's sleep. Furr’s: fish, ham, and veggies. Starlist 32920. Out box has 39 ======emails. Work sent to Eric: graphics needed for Communique. Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Paul Cordiero about X- MY DAY: 3 Sept (Thursday) 2009 ships. Mark Michalik about the Denver trip. Bruce Graw reports Dinosaur list: torso proportions. Industry mailing lists: that the drone and plasma production run is in the mail. Dragoncon. APOD: Despina, Moon of Neptune. Primary work: Did Jean’s reports on Communique for the Denver Trip: At breakfast, we were alarmed when a 10th. Answered Jean’s questions on K20M. Mostly I just cleaned neighbor of the warehouse called with a problem, but Petrick was up my desk and email and went home to rest. ======interacting galaxies. Sudoku 2:51, a very good time. Web crawl completed at 12:46. Lunch: BBQ at Country Barn. Starlist NR. MY DAY: 8 Sept (Tuesday) 2009 Out box has 26 emails. Work sent to Eric: animal photos, update Got to the office at 9:15. Weather: 70F and clear. for master index, fix for communique page. Read FYEO for 8-9 Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Barrosasaurus casamiquelai. September. Industry mailing lists: graphic designer, getting into BBS: somebody drooled in RWM. Ship sent to FCOL: Klingon distribution. E5E. Forum: 7 actives. APOD: Jupiter Impact. Sudoku 3:41. Web Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Eric fixed the crawl completed at 11:39. Lunch: sandwich from home (new communique issue. diet). Starlist NR. Out box has 30 emails. Work sent to Eric: take Primary work: I worked on starmada and F&E 2010. photos of fighters and build a web page about them. Read FYEO Klingons d20M (14 Sept): Jean and Gary were discussing for 2+3+4 Sept. Target shooting: 94 (out of practice). Industry how many cargo holds the D6E has. mailing lists: GameX, the “game expo for everyone” (as long as Went home about 7pm. you like video games and don’t know board games exist). ======Email: Jean’s daily reports and reminders. FC reports on Communique. Somebody did not like one of Petrick’s blogs, and MY DAY: 12 Sept (Tea Party Day) 2009 says it is “as un-American as it gets” for Petrick to dare to speak Got to the office at 1:30. Weather: 70F and cloudy, trying to an opinion which this guy does not agree with. I suggested he rain. I spent the morning at the Tea Party, where I worked the move to North Korea where he won’t ever hear anything he does registration table. It was great to be part of something so big, so not agree with. honest, so real, so American. News people kept asking me “what Primary work: Meeting to review the fighter minis organization do you work for?” and would not believe that there (approved) and request pricing from Bruce. Current plan is to was no organization, just a dozen or so citizens who don’t like the release these in October. Updated communique so it will be way things are going. I told one reporter “If there is an ready for release on time. Reviewed the sample Squadron Strike organization behind this, why am I using a rock to hold down the ships. Went home at 6:30pm with a stack of stuff to read. registration forms instead of a clipboard?” ======Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Hyoid bones. BBS: ok. Sent to FCOL: Romulan SP Leader. Forum: 9 actives. APOD: worthless MY DAY: 9 Sept (Wednesday) 2009 skyline. Sudoku 3:38. Web crawl completed 2:41pm. Lunch: Got to the office at 9:30. Weather: 72F and clear. Wendy’s. Out box: 31. Work sent to Eric: I told Petrick to send Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Pterosaur take-off. BBS: ok. Eric the fighter data he needs. Read FYEO for 10-11-12 Sept. Ship sent to FCOL: Fed CLC (NCL-CC). Forum: 4 actives. Industry mailing lists: card game databases. Ann Coulter’s APOD: star trails. Sudoku 3:52. Web crawl completed at 11:00. website will no longer talk to my Mac, but I went to the PC and Lunch: Famous Dave’s (for the first and last time). Out box has read her last two columns which, over and over, disprove the lies 32 emails. Read FYEO for 5 Sept. Industry lists: Candy boxes. and myths liberals claim about Pelosicare. Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Primary work: Spent most of the day on a project that isn’t Primary work: Got Leanna to set a price for the fighters and ready to be announced. Had a meeting with an RPG designer posted the news. who has his own version of d20. Reviewed Petrick’s revision to a Klingons d20M (14 Sept): Discussed Klingon ship designs 10-year-old book that is out of print and converting to Kyocera. and the chronic errors in the Klingon RPG book starship section ======with Jean Sexton, who was not happy with my sloppy work. MY DAY: 10 Sept (Thursday) 2009 Communique #46 (10 Oct): Set up file, selected Seltorian DD and Federation BCP. Got to the office at 9:25. Weather: 64F and overcast. Hydran Attack, Boosters 25-26-27 (19 Oct): did the WYN Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Argentina. BBS: ok. Sent to AuxC squadron scale and gave it to Petrick to check. FCOL: Fed CVS. Forum: 4 actives. APOD: Butterfly nebula Went home at 6:30pm. (cool!). Sudoku 3:28. Web crawl complete at 12:57. Lunch: ======sandwich from home (new low-calorie diet). Starlist 30122. Out box: 26. Sent to Eric: Communique. Read FYEO for 6 Sept. MY DAY: 13 Sept (Sunday) 2009 Target shooting: 96. Industry mailing lists: Reports from PAX. Got to the office at 2:55pm. Weather: 66F and cloudy. We Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. I sent notes to the two have had a light rain all morning. I cleaned out my email and guys with draft contracts to send comments. I asked some went home to spent the evening with Leanna. people about the “better version of d20” product that a local Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: genera vs. species. BBS: designer did. A dear personal friend had some bad news from getting a little political. Ship sent to FCOL: Klingon E7. Forum: 3 the doctor; our prayers are with her through a difficult time. actives. APOD: gibberish. Sudoku 3:38. Web crawl completed at Primary work: Updated and replaced Chapter One of my 3:38. Lunch: Leanna cooked roast. Starlist NR. Out box: 34. book on game companies. Got the first file ready for uploading to Work sent to Eric: 582 replace an old logo. Read FYEO for today. e23; Now I have to go find the instructions. Target shooting: 97.5. Industry mailing lists: nothing. Starline 2400 (Varies): Helped Eric lay out the new web Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. I talked with Jean by page for the fighter minis. phone about priorities. A better balance must be found between Communique #45 (10 Sept): Finished this and sent it to Eric getting products finished, customer service, and putting up with to upload. time-wasting problem children. It may be better to just ignore Klingons d20M (21 Sept): Jean seems to be working her way some people totally than try to reason with spoiled brats. We may through the starship section. have to set quotas on new game pages done and let the most Went home at 7pm. important customer service issues have what time is left. ======MY DAY: 11 Sept (Remembrance Day) 2009 MY DAY: 14 Sept (day) 2009 Got to the office at 9:15am. Weather: 68F and cloudy. This is Got to the office at 8:51. Weather: 62F, overcast, low clouds, a day to remember that security can never be taken less than fog, still trying to rain. seriously, and that closing Gitmo and prosecuting intel people Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: SVP Conference. BBS: 26, who were told they what was legal is monumentally stupid. quiet. Ship sent to FCOL: Klingon D5L. Forum: 4. APOD: star Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Herrerasaurus. BBS: ok. Ship cluster. Sudoku 3:25. Web crawl completed at 9:33. Lunch: steak sent to FCOL: Hydran Baron. Forum: 8 actives. APOD: at Logan’s. Starlist NR. Out box has 27 emails. Work sent to Eric: link to trek wallpaper. Read FYEO for today. Target shooting: (500 each of the two Roms) for delivery starting 5 Oct. 98.5. Industry lists: distribution & Fulfillment. Starmada (21 Sept): Leanna started printing books today. Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Medical updates from Klingon Armada (21 Sept): Numerous Emails with Dan about Jean Sexton and from John Sickels about his wife. how to format the book; I think we finally got on the same page. Primary work: Staff meeting to check counter proofs and FC Starship Guide: Added Distant Kingdoms ships to the discuss Jean’s Christmas trip to Amarillo. book. Went home at 7pm. Countersheets: Got the proofs. Checked them. Problem with ======where they lined up the cuts (marked) and a mistake on one counter that nobody caught except Petrick (marked). MY DAY: 17 Sept (Wedding Day+32) 2009 Starline 2400 (Varies): Tony Thomas reports that Juggy and Got to the office at 11:30. Weather: 65F and cloudy. It’s out Fed DD should be in the mail on 21 September. 32nd anniversary and Leanna and were in no hurry to get her. Klingon Armada (21 Sept): Leanna downloaded the final files We had a romantic breakfast and went shopping for new rose from the FTP site and said she wanted to discuss page layout. I bushes for her garden. I may not be here much today. got the first 10 pages edited. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: food sources. BBS: 25 ok. Sent Klingons d20M (21 Sept?): Jean sent a status report. to FCOL: LDR CWL. Forum: 9. APOD: Andromeda! Sudoku 3:49. Hydran Attack, Boosters 25-26-27 (19 Oct): I got the WYN Web crawl completed at 12:43. Lunch: steak at Country Barne. AuxC back from Petrick, and did the fleet scale version. I also Starlist NR. Out box: 31. Sent to Eric: Starmada page. Read completed the renumbering of the FCHA ships from playtest to FYEO for today. Target shooting: 99. Industry mailing lists: publication card numbers. Asked Petrick to send me the text of Google moves into publishing. the energy monster scenario. Email: Bruce about huge fighter order. Jean’s reports and I went home at 7pm to pack boosters in front of the TV. reminders. Dan K about Klingon Armada. Jean called in as she ======was headed into surgery and seemed upbeat. I had to deal with AOL sending automated spam complaints for their customers MY DAY: 15 Sept (Tuesday) 2009 who asked (twice) to be on our press release list. Got to the office at 8:45am. Weather: 61F, a few clouds. The Primary work: I got the FCHA cards back from Petrick but Democrats once again show their double standard in the House. didn’t have time to make the changes. I packed a run of Booster 2 last night watching television. Starline 2400: Reviewed the new packing for the fighters. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Pterosaur seen flying in (12 stands won’t fit the current pack.) If anything, it’s too big, but Argentina. BBS: 33. Sent to FCOL: Lyran Saber-tooth. Forum: 4. we’ll switch to a smaller size after the first run. APOD: beautiful nebula. Sudoku 3:21. Web crawl completed at Klingon Armada (21 Sept): Continued discussing format with 10:08. Lunch: sandwich from home (diet). Out box: 26. Sent to Daniel Kast. Eric: rework FC page, add Z articles. Read FYEO for today. Leanna suggested that we leave early, and I went with her. Target shooting: 98. Industry mailing lists: artists looking for work. ======Email: Jean’s status report on K20M and her overnight reports on Klingon Armada. Jean’s BBS reports and other MY DAY: 18 Sept (Friday) 2009 reminders. Daniel Kast on Klingon Armada. Got to the office at 9:10am. Weather: 60F, thin clouds. Primary work: Star Fleet Alert for next releases finished, Obama proves, one more time, that he cannot be trusted with sent out by Mike, uploaded by Eric. Then I did the alert for the national defense issues as he wrecks the missile defense grid. fighters and asked Petrick to proofread it. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Raptorex. BBS: 27. Sent to Countersheets: Had a cryptic note from the die cutter, but FCOL: Klingon F6. Forum: 7. APOD: silly 3d astronaut photo. they did not reply to my reply. Sudoku 3:18. I finally got a chance to go to a PC and read Ann Klingon Armada (21 Sept): I finished editing the last 7 pages. Coulter’s column of yesterday, which proves that Joe Wilson was The “Klingon Armada” rules are only about 15 pages, which right and Obama did lie. Web crawl completed at 10:23. Lunch: should shock the heck out of SFU players. sandwich. Starlist NR. Out box: 34. Sent to Eric: Starmada page Hydran Attack, Boosters 25-26-27 (19 Oct): I completed the ideas. Read FYEO for today. Target shooting: 99. Industry last FCHA ship card (energy monster, subject to editing when I mailing lists: Gencon reports. actually write the scenario) and gave the whole set of 16 to Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. A guy I met at Tacticon Petrick to review before sending them to the staff. who was doing game books and wanted artists to illustrate them Squadron Boxes 25-26-27 (16 Nov): Went over the ships to asked me for addresses and I sent him some. Bruce about fighter be included with Mike Sparks so he could inventory what we production scheule. Jean about RWM and politics. have and write the purchase order. Primary work: Dabbled a bit on the Civil Wars counter sheet Went home at 7pm. for F&E, doing the basic Lyrans, LDR, and Vudar. ======Hydran Attack, Boosters 25-26-27 (19 Oct): Updated the cards and sent them to Mike West. MY DAY: 16 Sept (Wednesday) 2009 Countersheets: Got revised proofs from MPS. They fixed the Got to the office at 9:40am. Weather: 61F and cloudy. one typo for us, no problem. We have another issue but it is Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: why dinos taste like chicken. minor and may not be fixable anyway. We also had that “rich BBS: 23 ok. Sent to FCOL: Fed GSC. Forum: 7. APOD: blue” thing happen and we’ve never figured out why, but since all gorgeous nebula. Sudoku 3:11. Web crawl completed at 10:45. the counters have it, this seems a non-problem. Lunch: Barnaby’s. Starlist NR. Out box: 32. Sent to Eric: work Klingon Armada (21 Sept): I spent most of the day on this orders for fighter page links. Read FYEO for today. Worked with project, adding the new rules Daniel wrote, reformatting, making Steve Petrick on FCHA cards. Target shooting: 97.5. Jean’s fixes, and so forth. Went home at 7pm. Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. My old chaplain sent ======me an encouraging note. A friend sent photos of the Washington Tea Party. I got a story proposal from Randy Green and told him MY DAY: 19 Sept (Saturday) 2009 to get moving on it. Jay W about the iPhone contract. Got to the office at 12:25pm. Weather: warm, I forgot to look Primary work: Star Fleet Alert for the fighters sent to at the thermometer in my car, or the sky. Leanna and I had a wholesalers, retailers, and media. I had an urge and did the first honeymoon flashback, so I was late getting here. Deal with it. tiny big of work on the F&E Civil Wars countersheets. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Raptorex. BBS: 16 quiet. Sent Countersheets: Die cutter is making corrections and sending to FCOL: Romulan SPJ. Forum: 10. APOD: nice galaxy. Sudoku new proofs. 3:54. Web crawl completed at 1:18. Lunch: Pizza. Starlist NR. Starline 2400 (Varies): Ordered 1000 each of the fighters Out box: 33. Read FYEO for today. Target shooting: 98. Industry mailing lists: Belated Gencon reports. the draft book. There are no more to add until I actually do the Email: Lots of email from Jean and Daniel about the final Hydran Attack book. push to finish Klingon Armada. Jean’s reports and reminders. Went home at 7:30pm. Jean is riding herd on some misbehavior, warning people that if ======they again claim (elsewhere) things that are not true that she has the documentation to expose them. Sent a note of concern to a MY DAY: 22 Sept (Tuesday) 2009 friend who is unaware of the danger he placed himself in. My Got to the office at 9:36am. Weather: 49F and cloudy. We chaplain invited me to a radical political meeting and I slipped out did get some rain over night, but nothing close to snow. for an hour to see what the local domestic terrorists were up to. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Gallardosaurus. BBS: ok. Sent Turns out that drug dealers broke into the office of that new local to FCOL: Romulan K7R. Forum: 10. APOD: aurora skyline. conservative newspaper and stole their computers. Mike West Sudoku 3:46. Web crawl completed at 10:28. Lunch: enchiladas got the FCHA ship cards and will report by Monday. at La Fiesta. Starlist NR. Out box: 40. Sent to Eric: Stuff from the Primary work: I took ten minutes to put the basic Setorian FLAP list. Read FYEO for today. Target shooting: 98. hull shapes into the F&E CW countersheet. Email: Warren Mathews about F&E 2010. Jean’s reports Klingon Armada (21 Sept): I did the layout for the actual and reminders. The final Klingon Armada thing from Daniel. Klingon Armada rules, and sent the PDF to Jean and Dan (and a Primary work: Worked on the FLAP list. Added Starmada, hard copy to Petrick). We now know that the book is 86 pages, drones, plasmas, and Klingon Armada to the cart. two of which (the catalog pages) I haven’t done yet. Starline 2400 (Drone & Plasma): Shipment to wholesalers Starmada (21 Sept): Books were coming out of the printers begins and going into the bookbinder. Starmada: Shipment to wholesalers begins Went home at 7pm to read the Starmada book. Klingon Armada (21 Sept): Shipment to wholesalers begins. ======Went home at 7pm to read my homework for business school tomorrow. Should be fun. See you Friday. MY DAY: 20 Sept (Sunday) 2009 ======Got to the office at 10am. Weather: 70F, clear skies. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: the genus problem. BBS: ok. MY DAY: 23 Sept (Wednesday) 2009 Sent to FCOL: WYN CWL. Forum: 12. APOD: Ganymede. Got to the office at 7:20am. Weather: 49F, a few clouds. I Sudoku 3:09. Web crawl completed at 1:53. Lunch: turkey at was only here for 20 minutes before business school. I came Calico. Starlist NR. Out box: 33. Read FYEO for today. Worked back for a few minutes at 5:30pm. with Steve Petrick and Jean on Klingon Armada. Shooting: 99. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: moon rocks. BBS: ok. Sent to Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. FCOL: Klingon D7V. Forum: 13. APOD: CoRoT-7b. Sudoku 3:18. Primary work: Web crawl never got done. Lunch: BBQ at business school. Starmada (21 Sept): Books are being printed. Starlist NR. Out box: 40. Industry mailing lists: our starmada deal. Klingon Armada (21 Sept): I worked on this most of the day, Email: Jean (wondering where I was). doing the reports from Dan, from Jean, and from Petrick. By Primary work: I spent the entire day at the “business boot lunchtime, I had done Jean through 27, Petrick through 26, and camp” seminar, learning to make ADB, Inc, bigger and better. Dan through 22. By 2:30, I had finished all of the Petrick and Dan Nothing earth-shaking, but I did learn some catchy ways to say reports and Jean was through 33. We had to fiddle with a few things I already knew, and heard some great business stories. things, adding Prox Photons and changing probes-as-weapons to ======non-interceptable. By 5pm, I had everything done, and sent the MY DAY: 24 Sept (Thursday) 2009 final PDF to Dan and Jean. (Dan sent back a list of a few minor Got to the office at 5pm. Weather: 65F a few clouds. things, mostly format things.) Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: food storage. BBS: ok. Sent to Klingons d20M (21 Sept): there is no way in heck for this to FCOL: LDR STT. Forum: 17. APOD: stupid sunset photo; NOT release on Monday, or even Tuesday. Kick the product to 19 Oct. astronomy. Lunch: sandwiches at Business school. Out box: 40. Went home at 6pm. Email: Art Trotman about FC scenarios. Jean’s usual email. ======Primary work: I spent more or less the entire day at the MY DAY: 21 Sept (Monday) 2009 “business boot camp” seminar, learning ways to make ADB, Inc, Got to the office at 8:45am. Weather: 62F, a few high clouds. bigger and better. Lots of Dilbertisms but little that I did not know. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Russian eggs. BBS: ok. Sent to ======FCOL: Tholian CWL. Forum: 8. APOD: gravitational lens. Sudoku MY DAY: 25 Sept (Friday) 2009 3:53. Web crawl completed at 9:38. Lunch: salmon at Logan’s. Starlist UK CM2 6GF. Out box: 34. Sent to Eric: Tholian Cadet Got to the office at 1:25. Weather: 65F with some clouds. ships. Read FYEO for today. Worked with Steve Petrick and Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Cuban Jurassic fossils. BBS: Leanna on Starmada. Target shooting: 98.5. ok. Sent to FCOL: Lyran heavy destroyer. Forum: 7. APOD: Email: Die cutter asked if we had sent the proofs back. The center of the glaxy. Sudoku 3:11. Web crawl completed at 3:16. call from Jean was cautiously hopeful that she will be ok. Lunch: Chicken at Mayor’s dinner. Starlist 95662. Out box: 37. Primary work: I took a few minutes to look into the finances Sent to Eric: answers to his questions on previous work orders. of doing Megahex 2 and found we’d lose money, as I suspected. Read FYEO for the 23rd. Target shooting: 97. Industry mailing We had a staff meeting to identify good things, things lists: GPA elections, Essen. needing improvement, goals, visions, mission, and values. This is Email: Jean’s reminders and reports. A guy with an RPG for the Business School I will be attending Wednesday-Friday. book he wants me to print. Eric got a bunch done (cycling photos Starmada (21 Sept): book printing begins, but the release on fighter page), added links on painting diagram page to fighter was delayed one day by Leanna’s orders. minis. I got the annual engineer newsletter which I have to read Klingon Armada (21 Sept): I made the changes before lunch. as they change the laws on engineers every year, but none of The new graphics were worse than the old ones so I just left those stuff applies to me. them. I changed the H4 headings to Eurostile Bold, a change Staff meeting: What I learned in Business Boot Camp. The Dan asked for. Petrick was checking the last minute math new way I am going to run ADB starting tomorrow. changes in point values. Leanna and I were scrambling to get the Meeting with Leanna: picked new cell phone pouch. F&E graphics for the “catalog pages”. We finally had the book put countersheet part numbers. together but not in time to ship today, so we will ship tomorrow. Primary work: I spent the first half of the day at the FC Starship Guide: I added the ships from Orion Attack to “business boot camp” seminar, learning ways to make ADB, Inc, bigger and better. I got to shake hands with the mayor of won’t go there any more); she showed that Clinton lost congress Amarillo, something that I have never done in my lifetime. in 1994 because he tried to pass HillaryCare and that the myth of I went home at 5pm, exhausted. our low longevity has no relation to our healthcare system. (Take ======out gun and car deaths and we have the best longevity rate in the world, and therefore, the best health care.) MY DAY: 26 Sept (Saturday) 2009 Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Scott Johnson sent Got to the office at 10:20. Weather: 65F and clear. cadet Q-ships. Way too much about the BBS Flap. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: new feathered troodon. BBS: Old Email: (381 after morning triage, 350 at end of day): I 23 ok. Sent to FCOL: Fed NCD. Forum: 5. APOD: the whole did all of the Mike West mail as part of the communique. I deleted galaxy. Sudoku 3:31. Web crawl completed at 11:05. Lunch: a bunch of spam that wasn’t on the screen due to being dated pizza. Starlist NR. Out box: 35. Sent to Eric: everything for months earlier than it was actually sent. October HF newsletter. Read FYEO for 24-25-26 Sept. Target Primary work: This is the first day of the post-boot camp shooting: 98.5. Industry mailing lists: GAMA show March 22-26th. schedule system, which allots an hour on Wednesday for Email: Jean about the blog I wrote for today, along with her customer requests and an hour on Friday for deal making, and reports and reminders. A G3 question I sent to Petrick. Burt schedules regular leadership meetings. We will see how it goes. Ashman found something useful on the web and asked if he Countersheets: Emailed MPS about freight shipment. could post the link and I not only told him it would be ok, I told Starline 2400 (Varies): Bruce confirmed fighters en route. Eric to add it to the master list of useful links. Communique #46 (10 Oct): Finished this and sent it to the Primary work: Everybody around here was busy getting Federation Commander staff. New ships are the Kzinti Drone ready for the mail order release on Monday. Frigate and the Klingon D5G commando ship. Staff meeting: Based on business boot camp, it has been Hydran Attack, Boosters 25-26-27 (19 Oct): Did the first decided that we will have a weekly staff meeting at 2pm every seven pages of the rulebook. Saturday. At this one, Leanna, Petrick, and I worked on the work Left at 5:30 to go have dinner with the chaplain. schedule, plotting specific days for specific work for two weeks. It ======was agreed that Leanna will take over uploading PDFs to e23 (since I have never done it; I did put the file on her computer) and MY DAY: 29 Sept (Tuesday) 2009 that Leanna will get one old CapLog reprint on the cart per week. The burglar alarm went off at 2:10am. Leanna and I drove to Leanna will also get the backer cards done for the larger fighter the office to meet the police, but nothing was wrong, nothing was clamshells. We agreed to renew the annual ad contract with broken. Best guess, some wino stumbled into the front glass it Greater Games Catalog. As directed by the meeting, I emailed was enough vibration to trip the alarms that detect broken glass. Trafton and Zip Print for cover quotes. Got to the office at 9:45am. Weather: 60F and clear. Eric was told to be prepared to do the FCHA cover Tuesday. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Walking with Dino-Birds. BBS: Mike was told to expert fighter minis by Friday or Monday. 25, plus David Cheng makes my case for me. Sent to FCOL: Petrick was told to work on CapLog 40 and C3A, and LDR HDD. Forum: 11. APOD: Orion molecular cloud. Sudoku promised a weekly 4pm meeting with me on CapLog. 3:29. Web crawl completed at 10:57. Lunch: sandwich from Starline 2400: Bruce says fighters will ship on Monday. home. (This is a matter of better food and keeping to my diet. I Communique #46 (10 Oct): Did the Kzinti Drone Frigate as don’t want anyone to think we’re going broke and have to brown the new ship, and the Klingon D5G as the madness ship, and bag it.) Starlist request from Australia. Out box: 42. Sent to Eric: wrote a scenario using the D6G. Old Galaxy Raider for playtest page. Read FYEO for today. Klingons d20M (19 Oct): Told Jean to send me the files. Worked with Steve Petrick on FCHA. Target shooting: 100, for Captain’s Log #40 (7 Dec): Set up workbook file. the second time in a row, and the second time in my life. Industry Went home at 6pm to read a story by Moellmer that might be mailing lists: Total Confusion. used in Captain’s Log. Email: Mike Johnson asked to have his BBS account ======deleted (so he can lie and say we kicked him out, which we did MY DAY: 27 Sept (Sunday) 2009 not). Cover printing quotes; Printer B saved us $500. Jay W says Got to the office at 2:45. Weather: 95F and clear. he is working on the iPhone contract. Die cutter says printing Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Anchiornis huxleyi. BBS: ok. done, mounting next, and is arranging freight shipments. Forum: 9. APOD: worthless 20 year old astronaut photo that is 2PM Mini-Meeting: The new system is working. I have done NOT ASTRONOMY. Sudoku 3:26. Web crawl completed at 3:52. Communique, 9 pages of FCHA rulebook, and got Eric to do Lunch: Leanna cooked. Starlist NR. Out box: 37. Sent to Eric: Hailing Frequencies. Petrick has made progress on CapLog and scanning old SFTs. Read FYEO for today. Worked with Steve is better organized at asking me for what he needs. Leanna has Petrick on find the box of old SFTs. Target shooting: 100, the first orders up to date, has done the backer cards for the fighter minis time I ever got a perfect score. Industry mailing lists: NA. (which take a different package from our standard clamshell), Email: Mike Filsinger about FC events at Origins. Jean’s and is studying how to upload stuff to e23 PDF store. reports and reminders. Jean confirming Eric did his work orders Primary work: I sent Eric the instructions for the covers for correctly. A note from Chaplain Denton about dinner next week. Boosters #26 and #27. Shawn Hantke about out of print products. (Maybe we can find a Starline 2400: Leanna took the backer cards for the fighter copy somewhere.) minis to the printer. Primary work: I didn’t come here to do primary work, just to Communique #46 (10 Oct): Eric finished the 10 October clean up my desk and de-spam my email. Went home at 6:40pm. Hailing Frequencies, and Petrick checked it. I sent it to Jean. ======Having this done 12 days early will save hassle later. Hydran Attack, Boosters 25-26-27 (19 Oct): I finished the MY DAY: 28 Sept (Monday) 2009 rulebook, and gave it to Petrick to review. Got to the office at 8:54. Weather: 56F and clear. Captain’s Log #40 (7 Dec): Discussed heavy fighter Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: pterosaur hair. BBS: 19; Mike development article with Petrick. Read a story by Jay W which John was misbehaving and Robert C wasn’t helping. Sent to might (if he does some work) go into a Captain’s Log someday. FCOL: Klingon D7D. Forum: 12. APOD: water on the moon. Went home at 7pm to read some stuff Petrick gave me. Sudoku 3:18. Web crawl completed at 9:46. Lunch: salmon at ======Logan’s. Starlist 80104. Out box: 40. Sent to Eric: Cadet Q- Ships. Read FYEO for today. Industry lists: GTS date change. MY DAY: 30 Sept (Wednesday) 2009 I finally went down the hall to read Ann Coulter (my Mac Got to the office at 9:22am. Weather: 72F and clear. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Primeval has been renewed. for Leanna so we can take one car). Weather: 58F and clear. BBS: 24. Sent to FCOL: Lyran CWL. Forum: 3. APOD: Saturn at Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Komodo dragons. BBS: 33, ok. equinox. Sudoku 3:14. Web crawl completed at 10:07. Lunch: Sent to FCOL: Tholian PCW (last one for a few weeks). Forum: BBQ pork at Country Barn. Starlist NR. Out box: 37. Sent to Eric: 8. APOD: Orion Nebula. Sudoku 3:05. Web crawl completed at Starletter page, issues to upload, mail order bonus page, issues 10:41. Lunch: Barnaby’s. Starlist NR. Out box: 55. Sent to Eric: to upload, subspace news page, issues to upload. Read FYEO stuff for covers and cards. Read FYEO for today. Worked with for today. Target shooting: 98 (sigh). Industry mailing lists: New Steve Petrick on intruder for star fleet battle group in CL40. England Conventions. Target shooting: 100. Industry mailing lists: Starcraft vs 40K. Email: Mike West, Mike Filsinger, and Art Trotman about Email: Jean approved a link somebody wanted to post. scenarios for FCHA. Jean’s regular reports and reminders. Jean’s last email before surgery. Glenn H said he has sent his Leanna says that the company is buying her a Kindle and she’s copies of the lost SFT issues to us. Jean’s dad called at 3:30 and going to see about selling Kindle-books for SFU. said Jean was out of surgery and doing fine. Primary work: Primary task today is the FCHA rulebook. 1pm Micro-Meeting: Leanna wrote the check so I could go Hydran Attack, Boosters 25-26-27 (19 Oct): I made Petrick’s pick up the fighter package cards. We arranged to have the fixes to the rulebook and sent it to the staff at 1:36pm. counters delivered to the un-manned Taylor warehouse, marked Customer Request Wednesday: The theory is that for them to call us before the truck goes there. We discussed anything customers want (that I cannot do in 2 minutes) goes into how to handle the flash and packing on the fighters. We got the the list for CRW. Each Wednesday, I will spend 30 minutes doing new intercoms in the mail (more boxes for the system we have) all of the easy stuff and 90 minutes doing the hardest stuff from and taught Mike and Eric how to use them. We decided to use oldest to newest. This time, since I just started, I had no easy the leftover spot on the cardstock chart for a few Lyran and stuff, just one big hard thing. I reviewed the box of old SFTs and Hydran cards for Star Fleet Battle Force. Starletters, made a list of what we have, and sent two people Spam: Satisfy your lover. Replica watches. Under-reported requests for PDFs of SFTs that are missing. I think we will be income. Bank notifications. Viagra. Prescription drugs. Software. able to complete the whole set of SFT-V2s. (Of the 50, 8 are Thank you for the order you never made. Oxycodone. College already on line, and I have hard copies of 30 of the rest. I sent degrees. Fast shipping (not sure what they’re shipping, but it’s Emails to two guys who have collections asking them for the 12 fast). Inheritance from somebody. Girls want to meet me. missing issues.) Then I turned my attention to Starletter. We Embroidered shirts. Phentermin. Dog potty. Steamy babes. have on-disk backups of #65-#91. (I Emailed somebody who has Ritalin. Car warranties. Ebay account suspended. Who’s Who. #57-#64 and #92.) This is not an easy process. Fonts and This is a pretty typical day’s trash mail. formats have changed over the years, sometimes the SSD won’t Deal Making Friday: Dead in Space and iPhone had not yet print (I asked the guy for scans of missing SSDs), all the white sent responses, so I could not work on those contracts. I worked text on black blocks turned to white text on white blocks (fixable), on the deal sheet for the Star Fleet Battlestations contract and and sometimes I have to reformat something. Takes about 2-3 pretty much wrapped it up. minutes per issue. I got the ones I had complete ready for Eric to Primary work: Eric created the new Starletter page. upload. I also found five issues of subspace news and two Mail http://www.starfleetgames.com/starletter.shtml Order bonus documents and sent those to Eric to upload. Countersheets: Die-cutting complete, the counters will ship Countersheets: Meeting with Mike Sparks and Steve Petrick Monday for delivery on Thursday 8 October. to discuss how to handle the incoming countersheet shipment. Starline 2400: Tony Thomas says Juggy will be in the mail Starline 2400: Approved the proof of the backer cards for the by Monday. The fighter minis arrived. I went and picked up the fighter packages. backer cards for the fighter packages. Mike started packing them. Went home at 7pm to work on my clipboard reading stuff. Hydran Attack, Boosters 25-26-27 (19 Oct): Jean’s ship card ======reports. Mike West’s rule reports. Klingons d20M (19 Oct): I was scheduled to work on this MY DAY: 1 Oct (Thursday) 2009 today, but the time got “stolen” by the “crisis” to do SFBF cards to Got to the office at 9:20. Weather: 65F and clear. fit into the empty spot on the stuff going to press. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: T-rex “sampson”. BBS: 18 ok Went home at 6pm. active topics. Sent to FCOL: Romulan SPM. Forum: 6 active ======topics. Astronomy Picture of the Day: Carina Pillar (magnificent). Sudoku 3:10. Web crawl completed at 10:10. Lunch: Wendy’s. MY DAY: 3 Oct (Saturday) 2009 Starlist No Requests. Number of emails in my out box (people I Got to the office at 9:40am. Weather: 52F and cloudy. am waiting for to do something): 57. Sent to Eric: new BBS map Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Samson the T-rex. BBS: 23 ok. to upload. Read FYEO for today. Target shooting with my airsoft Forum: 9. APOD: something stupid that is NOT astronomy. M16: 98.5. Industry mailing lists: GAMA releases its first Sudoku 3:21. Web crawl completed at 11:43. Lunch: Furr’s. newsletter in a while, and many think it’s a joke, being two pages Starlist NR. Out box: 52. Sent to Eric: Starletter 42. Read FYEO of no real information, but it seems good they’re trying again. for today. Target shooting: 98.5. Industry mailing lists: Podcasts. Trey Reilly resigned from GAMA suddenly, but says it’s cordial. I Email: Phil Shaton found Starletters and sent a PDF. Jean wonder what’s up with that? Is the new director cleaning house? reported in; things are hopeful and her parents are with her. Phil Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Mike West sent the Shanton sent PDFs of Starletters 43-56. last of the FCHA stuff I needed. Scott Johnson sent Eric more 1PM Work ON Company: The theory is that I will spend one Sublight and Cadet stuff to upload. hour per week working “on” rather than “for” ADB. I used the time 2PM Mini-Meeting: Petrick and I reviewed progress. to review the schedule for the next two weeks. Primary work: Today’s primary task was done yesterday, 2PM Staff Meeting: Leanna is still working on e23. Petrick but I got the specifications for the Hydran Attack cover sent to has made progress on CL#40. Plans are in place to send stuff to Eric and worked on cleaning up my email so I can work on K20M press, receive stuff, and pack stuff for the release in two weeks. tomorrow. The day was sort of a mental break after three intense SVC met all of his goals for the week. days of getting stuff done. I read a bunch of CL40 stuff that 4PM CapLog Meeting: Heavy fighters for C4R. Petrick had written and given to me to review. Primary work: Worked on Hydran Attack and Klingons Went home at 7pm. d20M. Read some CL40 stuff. ======Went home at 7pm. ======MY DAY: 2 Oct (Friday) 2009 Got to the office at 9:40 (it’s green day, when I have to wait MY DAY: 4 Oct (Sunday) 2009 Got to the office at 2:50. Weather: 60F and cloudy. On the to close, received a primer, waiting for battlegroup tactics). Steve way in, I spent an hour chatting with the owner of the only Petrick also called for the re-established of “game night” so we wargame store in Amarillo about the industry and business. could play non-ADB games. Mike Sparks reported on getting the Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Herrerasaurus. BBS: 26. warehouse ready for the Hydran Attack shipments, and on Forum: 12. APOD: some stupid thing that is not astronomy. progress packing the fighter minis. Eric reported progress on his Sudoku 3:32. Web crawl completed at 3:28. Lunch: Leanna website upgrades. burgers. Starlist 29204. Out box: 52. Read FYEO for today. Primary work: I finished the Star Fleet Alert about the 19 Target shooting: 99. Industry mailing lists: Print on demand. Oct releases and had Mike Email it and had Eric upload it. Email: FCHA ship card reports. Adam Turner says art is on Countersheets: Shipment yesterday confirmed. These schedule. Jean’s reports and reminders. should be delivered to the warehouse on Thursday or Friday. I just stayed long enough to clean up my desk and email. Hydran Attack, Boosters 25-26-27 (19 Oct): I fixed the BPV ======of the Kzinti FFK and the Energy Monster rules and sent the cards to the printer. They should be done by the 14th or 15th. MY DAY: 5 Oct (Monday) 2009 Klingons d20M (19 Oct): I did a few pages of this. Got to the office at 9:55. Weather: 54F, fog, and rain. Went home at 7pm with stuff to read. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Ceratopsine phylogeny. BBS: ======20. Forum: 6. APOD: space station picture. Sudoku 3:13. Web crawl completed at 10:23. Lunch: steak at Logan’s. Starlist MY DAY: 7 Oct (Wednesday) 2009 22554. Out box: 51. Read FYEO for today. Sent Eric links for Got to the office at 9:02. Weather: 55F and cloudy. astronomy sites to add to links page. Target shooting: 97.5. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: gracile tyrannosaurid. BBS: 20 Industry mailing lists: GTS show. ok. Forum: 11 ok. APOD: double-ring crater on Mercury. Sudoku Email: Last FCHA card reports. Some NASCAR team wants 3:32. Web crawl completed at 10:01. Lunch: sandwiches (@#$% us to buy an ad on their car. Jean’s daily reports and reminders. diet!). Starlist NR. Out box: 52. Sent to Eric: Mail Order Bonus Marketing Monday: I did a blog reporting what happened in #3. Read FYEO for today. Target shooting: 100, with 15 of those the last week. I did a Star Fleet Alert for the 19 October releases in a bull’s eye of half the diameter, so maybe my score was 115 and sent it around the office for review. I checked the Alliance out of 100? Industry mailing lists: new FTC rules on reviews warehouse inventory and pointed out a number of errors they require you to state if you got the item you are reviewing for free need to fix. I talked with a guy I know about doing some or have another financial link to the publisher or manufacturer. marketing work for us; next I have to talk to Leanna (again). Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Ken Kazinski sent the Primary work: Leanna and I got the “extra piece” for the missing MO#3 file, but it is not readable. Shawn Hantke sent SFT cover print run done and sent to Zip Print, which marks off the #7 and #12 and Starletters #57-#64. We got an unusually huge “send covers to press” item on today’s planning sheet. I did work restock order from Alliance, which changed some of the work on K20M but didn’t get very far. schedule for some of the people around here. Starline 2400: Tony Thomas says that Juggy and the Fed People: Petrick was working on CL40. Mike was packing DD will be sent today. Will McCammon says F5W is going in fighter miniatures; I went back there and counted stands into FedEx today. paper cups for a half-hour just to make life easier. Eric was off Hydran Attack, Boosters 25-26-27 (19 Oct): I did the ship today. Leanna did mail orders, tried to get the Starletter scans to card reports from Mike West, Art Trotman, Scott Moellmer, Jean work, and uploaded our very first book to e23 (the old Module Sexton, Mike Filsinger (with the help of Steve Petrick) and placed Prime Alpha, which is no great loss if my fears of piracy prove the cards into the megasheet for printing. Steve checked those more true than everyone says they will be). Next will be the and they’re good to go. Starmada ship cards from Klingon Armada. Stopped work at 7pm and played computer games for an Customer Request Wednesday: I spent most of my CRW hour before I went home. time trying to get the scans people sent me to work. None will ======open on my Mac, and they are all gigantic files (5MB, compared to 50K for the files I uploaded). Not sure what is happening, but I MY DAY: 6 Oct (Tuesday) 2009 will look into it more at some future time. I burned up my entire Got to the office at 9:05. Weather: 51F and cloudy. The new share of “Leanna time” for the week on her trying to make the management concept is working (I think); I have marketing and files work without anything to show for it. I found the Star Fleet contract stuff clamoring for me to delay work on K20M, but that Assault PDF and sent it to Eric to upload to the playtest page. stuff has to wait for Contract Friday and Marketing Monday. Primary work: I went to the printer to check on the proofs, Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: pterosaur take-off. BBS: ok, which were goofed up and had to be done over. Sigh. Did some moved some lost RWM stuff to that topic. Forum: 12. APOD: work on K20M (the supposed primary project) despite problems. Lagoon Nebula. Sudoku 3:24. Web crawl complete at 10:20. Countersheets: Got word that they only shipped 88% of our Lunch: Cheddars. Starlist NR. Out box: 52. Sent to Eric: order, but that will be enough for years. Historical documents page. Read FYEO for today. Target I left at 6pm to take Leanna to dinner. I tripped over a curb shooting: 99.5. Industry lists: what game has the most die rolls? and fell hard, feels like cracked ribs (which I have had before). Email: Somebody found some more old SFTs and is ======emailing PDFs. Jean’s reports and reminders. Alliance about database updates. Spam note: I am getting a dozen “install.zip” MY DAY: 8 Oct (Thursday) 2009 attachments a day; these are virus packs from infected comuters. Got to the office at 9am. Weather: 60F and raining. Eric: Created the subspace news page with all five issues: Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Pterosaurs vs. marine reptiles. http://www.starfleetgames.com/subspace.shtml BBS: 30, ok. Forum: 11, ok. APOD: target crater for the moon Eric and I went to the printer to get to the bottom of a file crash. Sudoku 3:24. Ann Coulter demolishes the life expectancy glitch and figured out something I did not know about Photoshop. myth. Web crawl completed at 9:48. Lunch: enchiladas at La 2pm Tuesday Mini-Meeting: This lasted 40 minutes as we Fiesta. Starlist NR. Out box: 53. Sent to Eric: communique. Read went over a lot of stuff that’s going on. I reported that my work list FYEO for today. Target shooting: 97. Industry mailing lists: NA. was up to date, and the status of the counters, ship cards, and Email: Jean’s reports & reminders. I sent Jean a special get miniatures. Leanna reported that the first PDF was ready for well eCard which she enjoyed. upload to e23 and came to get information from me to do so. People: Petrick working on CL40. Leanna working on major Leanna reported that the high rate of orders continues and that orders. Mike working on major orders. Eric created the Mail everything was shipping on time. Steve Petrick reported on his Order Bonus archive page, updated the BBS map, and added work on CL40 (finishing the fighter article, waiting for the S8 topic some ships to the Commander’s Circle. 2pm Thursday Mini-Meeting: This lasted 25 minutes, and I stayed home all day with a heating pad, trying to get my reviewed the status of projects and who is doing what. cracked ribs to stop hurting so much. I did paint my space marine Primary work: Petrick asked me to go ahead and finish and and gene stealer figures to be ready for game night. release Communique #46 and the newsletter, so I did. ======Starline 2400 (Varies): Got the F5W (gorgeous) and sent it back to have the missing phasers added. MY DAY: 12 Oct (Monday) 2009 Hydran Attack, Boosters 25-26-27 (19 Oct): I approved the Got to the office at 9:45pm. Weather: 55F and cloudy. The proof of the ship cards, which we should have Wednesday. heat isn’t working in the office, and I have threatened to go home Captain’s Log #40 (7 Dec): I read the Triaxian primer. if the repair crew doesn’t show up soon. Klingons d20M (19 Oct): Completed the global capitalization Staff Meeting: Reviewed progress on projects. Voted to kick of Subject Race at 4:33pm, and for Warrior Caste at 4:37. F&E 2010, Fed Admiral, and FCB3 to next year and move Completed the global hyphenation for city-state at 4:41. Got Eric Captain’s Log up to 16 November. to bring me the new chapter title graphics, which didn’t work, so Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Late jurassic alvarezsaurid. he will do them over tomorrow. I finished Chapter Zero by 6PM BBS: 39. Forum: 20. APOD: stupid skyline photo (yesterday was and went home to swallow pain meds (I have cracked ribs, even more stupid). Sudoku 3:18. Web crawl completed at 11:09. remember?) and vegetate in front of the television. Lunch: Salmon at Logan’s. Starlist 92592. Out box: 35. Sent to ======Eric: SFT #1. Read FYEO for Saturday, Sunday, and Today. Industry mailing lists: FTC rules. MY DAY: 9 Oct (Friday) 2009 Target shooting: having mastered what I was doing, I backed Got to the office at 8:55am. Weather: 39F and cloudy. up (50% farther) and shot standing instead of sitting. My score Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: multi-year mating fidelity. BBS: dropped to 72, and the point is to bring this tougher test up to 90. 22 ok. Forum: 7. APOD: dwarf galaxy. Sudoku 3:44. Web crawl Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Psicorps sent a scan completed at 9:40. Lunch: BBQ at Dyers. Starlist NR. Out box: of SFT1. Jean called and told Petrick that everything was ok with 45. Sent to Eric: link fixes. Read FYEO for today. Target her medical scare, but Petrick didn’t think to let me talk to her so I shooting: 97.5. Industry mailing lists: Booths at trade shows. don’t know much more than that. Email: Jeans reports and reminders. Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna did orders and got the Klingon Deal Making Friday: After all that happened today (and the Armada stuff ready for e23. Mike Orders. Eric off today. cracked ribs which have caused a lot of pain and crankiness), I Stacks Report: Reminded Leanna to get the old Caplogs kicked Contract Friday to Saturday, or maybe Sunday. back into print. Sent email to sculptors about the Pegasus. Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna Orders. Mike counters arrived, Marketing Monday: I worked on the fall schedule and the fighters being packed. Eric Uploaded Comm 46, sent Hailing 2010 schedule, did a Star Fleet Alert telling people about them, Frequencies, uploaded ground combat draft rules, added and sent that around the office and then to Jean. Did the astronomy sites to links page, fixed some links, Uploaded that marketing text about the Klingon Armada ships, so Leanna can lost Master chart stuff (left out of G3 and put into G3A) that upload them to e23. I did not do the full marketing day due to the Petrick sent him, uploaded a bunch of old starletters. time lost last week when my injury kept me from working, so I did Primary work: I had to run over to the printer and clear the not check the Alliance inventory, for example. final proofs for the cover print run. We’re expecting the counters Primary work: Being Columbus Day, we did not received today, and the covers and ship cards by Wednesday afternoon. the Fed DD engine so we are still on hold on the new minis. At Countersheets: arrived and look gorgeous. least we did get the corrected F5W. Starline 2400 (Varies): Got the juggernaut, but the DD Hydran Attack, Boosters 25-26-27 (19 Oct): Lots of staff engine didn’t make the trip (called Tony, who sent it) and the reports on the “new rules” which are for the boosters, not FCHA. F5W is back at the shipyard being fitted with new phasers, so in Klingons d20M (19 Oct): I have two different lists of changes the end, no progress was made, but maybe next week. If we from Jean, the “typo list” and the “replace text list”. I worked on assume that the juggy will work in the mold, which is unknown. the typo list, doing all of pages 11-32. I needed to insert new text Communique #46 (10 Oct): Released at noon today. on 13 (but had to ask Mike to find it). I inserted new text and a Hydran Attack, Boosters 25-26-27 (19 Oct): Lots of staff new chart on 32 (which continues onto and takes almost all of discussion on the new rules for special sensors. page 82.) I also need new chapter titles from Eric. That brought I was going to work more, but the pain reached a point at me to 5pm, and I took a break. Then I did pages 33-45 (typos 6pm that I’m going home to take some “do not drive while taking” only on those) and sent them to Jean at 6pm. pills and strap a heating pad to the side of my chest. Captain’s Log #40 (16 Nov): We need fiction. Note that this ======has been moved up three weeks in the schedule. I read the stuff about the Tholian police ships and marked changes. MY DAY: 10 Oct (Saturday) 2009 Went home at 7pm. Got to the office at 9am. Weather: 45F and cloudy. I stopped ======at the butcher store and ordered 400 pounds of meat (heart, kidney, liver) to take to the wolf party on the 24th. MY DAY: 13 Oct (Tuesday) 2009 Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Archaeopteryx bones. BBS: 20 Got to the office at 8:55. Weather: 53F, rainy and cloudy. I ok. Forum: 17. APOD: Lunar impact. Sudoku 3:01. Web crawl bundled a few thousand paperclips last night watching “Becket”. completed at 9:58. Lunch: Furrs. Starlist NR. Out box: 33. Sent to Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Dinosaurs Decoded. BBS: 18, Eric: work order 663 link fixes. ok. Forum: 17. APOD: Saturn’s dust ring. Sudoku 3:18. Web Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Jean found a possibly crawl completed at 10:48. Lunch: BBQ at Dyers.. Starlist NR. Out illegal copy of a book on a website, but it turned out to be legit. box: 43. Sent to Eric: two old SFTs. Read FYEO for today. Long- Primary work: None. It was a strange day, wet and cold. range off-hand target shooting: 77. Industry mailing lists: Pitching Eric stayed home to do homework, Mike went to a church articles to game publishers. function, Leanna and Steve Petrick took the day off, and I went Email: Psicorps sent two more old SFTs. Jean’s daily report home to sit quietly with a heating pad on my cracked ribs. and reminders. Somebody asked why the “buy now” buttons Starline 2400: Will says the F5W is on its way back. don’t work for the fighters. (We start taking mail orders on the Hydran Attack, Boosters 25-26-27 (19 Oct): Staff Email 19th.) An old friend is planning to stop by next month. Daniel discussion on the rules for scouts and escorts. Kast needed an SSD to finish the extra ships for Klingon Armada. ======Jay W and John S about fiction. Wolfcon asked for support. Rumors: I was seriously amused when I heard speculation MY DAY: 11 Oct (Sunday) 2009 (wishful thinking? deliberate lies?) that ADB, Inc., was in financial trouble. Nonsense! We have no debt, sales are good (Alliance mountains and caves). Web crawl completed at 12:06. Lunch: just sent in their biggest restock in company history), and there is grilled chicken at Calico. Starlist NR. Out box: 47. Sent to Eric: cash in the bank that would get us to the end of the year without customer link requests, minis example forum, stuff for FCHA rule one dollar in sales coming in. Leanna and I have always been book. Read FYEO for today. Industry mailing lists: trademarks. paid last, after all other bills are paid, and we’ve been paid Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Dave ? asked for a regularly and on time for many years. Does the company have Romulan C7 and I suggested Petrick do one in CL40 or CL41. enough spare money to buy me a new Hummer? No, but those Staff: Petrick out sick. Leanna admin stuff. Mike packing things are hard to find parking places for anyway. We do have new products. Eric did the counters for the FCHA rulebook. enough money to pay for the printing we just ordered (or we 2pm Thursday Mini-Meeting: We skipped. wouldn’t have ordered it), to meet the next two or three payrolls, Primary work: Focused on new products K20M, FCHA. and to pay for our half of the next joint venture game project. Starline 2400: Fed destroyer engine arrived, but Petrick is Consider the source when you see nonsense like this (and never out sick so I cannot send minis to casting house. believe that source again). Hydran Attack, Boosters 25-26-27 (19 Oct): I got all but one Staff: Petrick working on CL40. Leanna got the PDF of the piece of interior art from Adam. Klingon Armada ships sent to e23. Mike sent out the review Klingons d20M (19 Oct): Continued slogging. Sent Jean copies of Klingon Armada. Eric uploaded the alert and did the pages 104-109 at 3pm. After a break and a trip to the dentist to new chapter headings for K20M. have bits of former employees cleaned from between my teeth, I 2pm Tuesday Mini-Meeting: We reviewed the projects and worked on this again, and sent her pages 110-118 at 6:30. I sent brought each other up to date. I was given a list of things to do Jean page 119-128 at 8pm. We spent an hour on the phone and (cost of counters, lost command note, talk to trafton about ship got the final fixes made through page 67. cards, check on cover printing, give Leanna the build list for the Leanna called at 10pm so I picked her up and went home. boosters) and did them all. ======Primary work: I updated the schedule and sent out Star Fleet Alert, and a schedule memo to the staff. MY DAY: 16 Oct (Friday) 2009 Starline 2400: Tony Thomas conferred on the size of the Got to the office at 9am. Weather: 54F, some clouds. My ribs new Pegasus mini. are very sore and if I didn’t have 2 books to finish I’d stay home. Klingons d20M (19 Oct): Jean had me change all of the Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Giant impact near India. BBS: footers to PD20M. I did all of the typos from 46-67 (12:30). The I 18, ok. Forum: 15. APOD: first Hershel photo. Sudoku 3:18. Web got distracted by other things and other projects and did not get crawl completed at 9:48. Starlist 97405. Out box: 47. Read FYEO back to work on KD20M until 5pm. By 6:40pm, I had completed for today. Lunch: Chicken at Cheddars. Worked with Steve the text insertions for pages 46-67 and sent that to Jean. I sent Petrick on minis. Industry mailing lists: Barnes & Nobel e-reader. her 68-79 by 8:00 and went home for the evening. Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. ======Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna Orders. Mike and Eric packing. Primary work: Focused on new products K20M, FCHA. MY DAY: 14 Oct (Wednesday) 2009 Starline 2400: We reviewed the available minis and sent Got to the office at 8:50. Weather: 65F and cloudy. several (Juggy, Fed DD engine, F5W, terminator, B9, ISC BB, Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: dinontogeny. BBS: 28 ok. Vudar DN, Vudar FF, Vudar DD) to Bruce. Forum: 21. APOD: Pleiades. Sudoku 3:15. Web crawl completed Hydran Attack, Boosters 25-26-27 (19 Oct): I finally got to at 10:24. Lunch: Wendy’s. Starlist 34601. Out box: 43. Sent to work on this about 3pm, and by 8pm I had sent the final revision Eric: The missing Starmada ships. Read FYEO for today. Long- of the rulebook to the staff with a warning to report tomorrow. range off-hand target shooting: 75. Klingons d20M (19 Oct): I need to finish this, so I started Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Will’s OCA. Loren had early, before finishing the daily rounds. 129 typos, 130 nothing, some interesting information I will look at later. Gary C fiction. 131 major problem inserting new longer character stats, 132-134 Staff: Petrick went home ill with a cough. Leanna did huge typos and caps, that was 11am and I took a break for lunch. Back mail orders. Mike was packing the new products. Eric off duty. to work at noon. 135-136-137-138-139-140 were just typos and Customer Request Wednesday: I talked with Leanna about caps and were done by 12:30. Then the nightmare began. The the large format art thing, but reached no conclusion. new character stats on pages 141-142 were much much larger Primary work: Starline 2400: Wil’s old CA design is fine. than the originals. That was done by 1:45pm, but I was missing a Hydran Attack, Boosters 25-26-27 (19 Oct): The covers and file I had to ask Jean for, and I had to add two pages. The four ship cards arrived. publisher info pages were easy. Sent the last pages to Jean at Klingons d20M (19 Oct): I finally got past the clutter to work 2:35pm. Since I was still here waiting on FCHA reports, Jean and on this at 1pm. I started on the typo file on page 80, and had to I spent an hour getting final changes pushed to page 103. Jean insert new text on that page. This became a nightmare as Jean had me do more de-capitalizing. replaced everything on 11 pages, and all of the new files were I finally went home at almost midnight. different sizes than the old files, so a long of stuff had to move ======around, but nothing was lost. I finished pages 80-90 at 3pm and send the PDF to Jean and took a break. I sent pages 91-97 at MY DAY: 17 Oct (Saturday) 2009 4:30pm and took another break before starting through Jean’s Got to the office at 9:32am. Weather: 65F and cloudy. “war on capitalization” again. Sent pages 98-103 at 6pm. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Impact craters and chains of Went home, too mentally exhausted to do more. them. BBS: 35, ok. Forum: 12, ok. APOD: Triangulum galaxy. ======Sudoku 3:09. Web crawl completed at 10:33. Starlist 11372. Out box: 49. Sent to Eric: Final FCHA items. Lunch: pizza. Read MY DAY: 15 Oct (Thursday) 2009 FYEO for today. Worked with Steve Petrick on FCHA final Got to the office at 11am. Weather: 65F and clear. I had stuff review. Long-range off-hand target shooting: 79.5. to do at home, and I’m scheduled to stay at the office until 10pm, Email: Last minute FCHA reports, appeals, and tweeks. and we brought one car (and this is when Leanna was ready to Jean’s usual reports and reminders and final K20M items. come to work; she’s going to see Mama Mia tonight.) Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna printing FCHA. Mike packing Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: transitional pterosaur. BBS: 41 fighters, FCHA, and K20M. Eric helping pack fighters and FCHA; ok. Forum: 14. APOD: Fireball meteor. Sudoku 2:54 (unusually uploaded SFT 1, 2, 3, and Mail order Bonus #3, added a bunch fast). Ann Coulter: explained why Iraq (sane, educated people, of links to the SFT, Starletter, and Mail Order Bonus pages. tons of resources, open country for airpower) was a better place 1PM Work ON Company: I reset the My Day file, but did not to fight a war than Afghanistan (crazy people, no resources, give this the full hours due to finishing books and being tired. Noon Staff Meeting: Early so we wouldn’t have the noise of Primary work: Mostly, today, I helped with packing since we the book printers, we reviewed the product releases for Monday, have so much going out. I packed three cartons of FCHA before the unexpectedly large orders, and the things to be done. lunch. After lunch, I packed two more cartons during the power Primary work: I finished the FCHA rulebook at 1pm with a blackout, and then spent two hours shrinkwrapping stuff with lot of help from Mike West, Art Trotman, and Jean Sexton. Then Steve Petrick. we couldn’t get the software to make the booklet right, so I did a Starline 2400: Fighters go on sale. loose leaf PDF and Leanna “joined” the pages with her software. Hydran Attack, Boosters 25-26-27 (19 Oct): Goes on sale. This took two hours. Then the printers were acting up, but Klingons d20M (19 Oct): Goes on sale. Leanna got one of them dialed in and we had the initial run of Captain’s Log #40 (16 Nov): Mike West suggested we do the FCHA books done by 7pm. (Sixteen page books print fast.) Frax and SFGs for FC. Starline 2400: Emails with Bruce about production. Went home at 6pm to try to get some sleep and watch my Klingons d20M (19 Oct): Jean got the missing lieutenant favorite TV show, “Becket”. from Tony and I installed “Katia” in the book. Jean and I spent an ======hour on the phone and got to page 123. Jean still has about 25 pages to read as of 3:20pm. I worked on some other stuff, and MY DAY: 20 Oct (Tuesday) 2009 spent an hour on the phone with Jean (6pm-7pm) and we got Got to the office at 9:16. Weather: 61F, a few clouds. I got a everything done except the index. I went and helped pack better night’s sleep than usual (due to the rib injury) but I still felt games, and at 9pm I was still waiting for Jean’s index report. At pretty rocky from the pain medication. 10pm, Jean said she wouldn’t finish the new index until Sunday Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Neovenatoridae. BBS: 23 ok. morning. I worked on a few other things and finally went home at Forum: 6+8, ok. APOD: solar flare. Sudoku 3:34. Web crawl 11:30pm. completed at 10:13. Starlist 98513. Out box: 56. Sent to Eric: ======priority list, updated FC MSC, schedule pages update. Read FYEO for today. Lunch: Barnaby’s. Worked with Steve Petrick on MY DAY: 18 Oct (Sunday) 2009 shrinkwrapping, which brought back old times. Industry mailing Got to the office at 12:30. Weather: 70F and clear. lists: How many retailers attend GTS? (Answer: Not enough to be Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: dino smell. Lunch: Marty’s, a worth going, but the huge turnout at the Diamond summits is pretentious place that charges twice as much as Furr’s for food 90% comic stores with no interest in games.) that is not as good. BBS: 22 ok. Forum: 10 ok. APOD: star pillars. Email: FC and PD staff claiming their freebies. David Dotson Sudoku 3:17. Web crawl completed at 2:09. Starlist NR. Out box: asking about F&E spare parts. Notification of the next Tea Party 48. Sent to Eric: Cover art for shopping cart, fighter page buy in Amarillo (5 Nov). The usual serving of spam. now links. Read FYEO for today. Worked with Steve Petrick on Staff: Petrick CL40, warehouse. Leanna Mail orders, royalty shrinkwrapping. Industry mailing lists: gaming via texting. statements. Mike shipping orders, book binder. Eric uploaded Email: Jean’s final reports. Jean’s daily reports. stuff to website, put the photos on the shopping cart, then packed Primary work: I got Jean’s final reports, made the changes, card sets for us to make more copies of FCHA, then Eric created and built the PDF. I gave this to Leanna, who printed the final the Miniatures Painting Example Forum where people can upload check copy (FCC-tm) which showed one page had to be their pictures (and easily find them later). replaced due to a glaring typo. I fixed this at 2pm and she printed 2pm Tuesday Mini-Meeting: We made plans to get through another FCC, which was fine, so full production started on K20M. the mail order shipments on Monday, and to get stuff ready for We (barely) printed enough books for the Monday shipments, my trip to the wolf sanctuary on Friday. Eric and Mike will pack and with printing Monday we should make the big shipments on more games today (for the final wholesale orders and the staff) Tuesday. Petrick and I were back on Shrinkwrapping duty for the and then more games for mail orders on Friday and Saturday. first time in two or three years, which was kind of fun. We got Primary work: I updated the FC MSC and sent it to Eric to enough done to ship the Monday orders, but stopped. I still feel upload, and worked in the warehouse, but was otherwise not pretty rocky due to the cracked ribs, and Petrick is still getting feeling well enough to get anything done. I wrote the annual wolf over the chest cold he had, so we didn’t want to push it. blog which Jean will post on the 23rd. We all jumped in to help Staff: Petrick heat-sealed fighter packs and did a lot of when UPS got here at 5pm. There were 40 boxes to go out, and shrinkwrapping. Leanna was invoicing and working on the it was a pouring rain. We covered the two carts with plastic tarps shopping cart. Mike spent the whole time I was here doing and rolled them out to the street, and loaded boxes into the truck bookbinding. Eric was off duty. as fast as we could. I’d love to say it was like a well-trained Indy Leanna and I finally went home at 6pm. pit crew, but Chinese Fire Drill may be closer to the truth. After ======that, I packed more FCHAs with the card sets that Eric made. I went home at 6pm to try to rest. I’m not getting much sleep MY DAY: 19 Oct (Monday) 2009 due to the rib injury and run out of steam by mid-afternoon. Got to the office at 8:52am. Weather: 60F at 9am, 91F at ======4pm, and mostly clear. Electric power went out at the building for about an hour, the second time this year that has happened. The MY DAY: 21 Oct (Wednesday) 2009 cracked ribs continue to keep me from getting much sleep, Got to the office at 10:10. It was the first decent night’s sleep making me kind of a zombie wandering around the office. since the accident and Leanna made a decision to let me keep Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: science education. BBS: ok. sleeping. Weather: 59F and raining. Green day, one car, so I will Sent to FCOL: Klingon D7E. Forum: 8. APOD: Mars rover photo. be going home earlier than I normally do. Sudoku 3:26. Web crawl completed at 9:37. Starlist 99506. Out Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: secrecy in dino publishing. box: 51. Sent to Eric: fighter page link. Lunch: steak at logan’s. BBS: ok. Forum: 10. APOD: dust devil tracks on Mars. Sudoku Read FYEO for today. Worked with Steve Petrick on 2:58. Web crawl completed at 10:54. Lunch: Taco Villa. Starlist shrinkwrapping. Industry mailing lists: two of eight law suits over bogus address rejected. Out box: 47. Sent to Eric: ships from illegal PDFs of D&D manuals settled for six-figure fines. Comm-40 for upload. Read FYEO for today. Email: Jean’s reports. Mike West about FC stuff. Somebody Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Jean’s review of Eric’s asked me to email the PDFs Eric hasn’t uploaded yet (done). work done yesterday. A store manager asking about boosters 91 Staff: Petrick helping pack products, shrinkwrap, pack to 95. orders. Leanna invoicing, doing royalty statements. Mike packing Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna Mail orders, office work. Mike orders, sent the Alert. Eric off duty. review copies, convention boxes, store support. Eric off duty. Marketing Monday: I did a Star Fleet Alert about the new Deal Making Friday: Did the next step in the Battlestations product releases. contract, finishing the deal notes sheet. Next step is to actually write the contact itself. three pounds of meat that I brought. Genghis loved his heart, and Customer Request Wednesday: Leanna and I studied the stole the heart we gave his lady friend. We took photos and video “selling high resolution images” request again and found no and will post them shortly. practical way to do it. It would cost about $20 per image to make Staff: Petrick CL40. Mike packing products. Eric web stuff them available, and at 99 cents per download and no proven and packing products. market for more than one copy, there is no way to make money. APOD: Pegasus galaxy 7331. We also have no way to charge customers for a $1 transaction ======that does not cost us more than $1 in bank fees. Primary work: I continued working on the FLAP list, and did MY DAY: 25 Oct (Sunday) 2009 the memo to send the staff freebies. Leanna and I drove home from New Mexico and did not go Communique (10 Nov): Did the scenario, updated the stuff, by the office. I did scan the BBS from home. and selected two of the four ships. APOD: Crab Nebula. FC Briefing #3 (2010): did Lyran CWS. ======I left at 5:30pm to take Leanna to an appointment and run MY DAY: 26 Oct (Monday) 2009 some errands in preparation for Friday’s wolf trip. Got to the office at 10:25am. Weather: 41F and cloudy. ======My cousin Justin (another engineer) and his lovely wife MY DAY: 22 Oct (Thursday) 2009 Cindy came by from Denver and we had lunch together. Got to the office at 9:15. Weather: 40F and cloudy, trying to Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Wikipedia editing. BBS: ok. rain, a cold and damp morning. I stopped at the slaughterhouse Sent to FCOL: Klingon D5G. Forum: 32. APOD: Galactic Zoo. to confirm my order for 400 pounds of meat for the wolves. Sudoku 3:41. Web crawl completed at 3:16. Lunch: Salmon at Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: demolishing the Indian crater Logan’s. Starlist 14043. Out box: 57. Sent to Eric: Scott theory. BBS: 32 ok. Forum: 14+8, the new paint examples area is Johnson’s fixes to sublight page. Read FYEO for 23-24-25 Oct. very popular. APOD: skyline, but ok. Sudoku 3:39. Ann Coulter: Industry mailing lists: Maximizing facebook value. shows the hypocrisy of White House attacks on Fox news. Web 1PM Saturday Work ON Company: Reset the My Day file. crawl completed at 10:32. Starlist NR. Out box: 51. Sent to Eric: Sigh: My email program locked up about five minutes after I new priority list. Lunch: enchiladas. Read FYEO for today. left the building on Friday, and the person who should have Industry mailing lists: Wookie. checked it did not, so it had to download all 4000 emails that got Email: FC Staff about ships to put in Communique. Jean’s through the Spam filters while I was gone after I got here. This reports and reminders. Alex F about selling art files. Two artists took 45 minutes, and 99% of it was spam. looking for work got the usual form letter. Email: Jean’s reports for all three days, and her Monday Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna articles, getting the video reminders. Alex Fulton about using art. Bruce Graw about minis. camera to work. Mike shipping staff boxes. Eric uploaded the Note from Chaplain Denton. Scott Johnson about sublight page. FCMSC and worked on the Starmada page. Joshua A. Norrid about starlist. 2pm Thursday Mini-Meeting: We had this at 4:30 due to Staff: Petrick CL40, and looked at minis with me. Leanna interruptions and schedule mis-matches. We reviewed plans for mail orders. Mike mail orders. Eric off duty. the guys to get inventory built to handle the mail orders. We Stacks Report: discussed the developments in the battlestations game. Leanna Marketing Monday: I did the MY WEEK blog and sent it to and Eric tried to get the video camera to take still photos. Jean, who posted it. Deal Making Friday: Well, at last I remembered to send Primary work: Mostly I spent the day catching up. Battlestations the memo I wrote yesterday. I made the latest Starline 2400: Reviewed the new masters. Scheduled round of changes to the iPhone contract and sent it back. releases for new ships. Ordered F5Winto production. Arranged to Primary work: I did the Hydran CWS. I set up the file for have Juggy fixed. Mail order shipments of the fighters began. Booster 92 and identified the two missing cards. Hydran Attack, Boosters 25-26-27 (19 Oct): Mail order Communique 47 (10 Nov): Petrick marked up the two CWS shipments began. End item. cards so I could finish this. I gave it to Petrick to read. Klingons d20M (19 Oct): Mail order shipments began. End F&E-2010 (2010): Wrote a memo explaining the delay and item. posted it to the BBS; the forum wasn’t working. I left at 6:15pm. Federation Admiral (2010): Wrote a memo explaining the ======delay and posted it to the BBS; the forum wasn’t working. MY DAY: 27 Oct (Tuesday) 2009 FC Briefing #3 (2010): Discussed some possible ship list Got to the office at 9:50am. Weather: 49F and clear. nominations with Mike West and Mike Filsinger. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Ouranosaurus. BBS: 22 ok. Went home at 6pm to pack and get a good night’s sleep. Forum: 11. APOD: Butterfly nebula. Sudoku 3:37. Web crawl ======completed at 10:54. Lunch: Chicken at Cheddars. Starlist 28625. MY DAY: 23 Oct (Friday) 2009 Out box: 46. Sent to Eric: Alex Fulton’s art. Read FYEO for 26 Got to the office at 10am. Weather: 54F, partly cloudy. and 27 Oct. Long-range off-hand target shooting: 73.5. Industry Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: hadrosaur. BBS: 27 ok. Forum: mailing lists: Essen reports. 16 ok. APOD: stupid skyline. Sudoku 3:18. Web crawl completed Email: A web store wanted to use our photos (no, only brick at 10:37. Lunch: BBQ at Country Barn. Starlist NR. Out box: 58. and mortar stores get them). Bruce Graw about getting juggy Email: Bruce Graw about minis (waiting for news of Juggy). masters to Tony for neck enlargement. Alex Fulton about some Jean’s reports and reminders. art he did. Jean’s reports and reminders. Staff: Petrick CL40. Mike packing products. Eric web stuff Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna Mail orders. Mike Mail orders. (more sublight ships uploaded) and packing products. Eric Uploading web stuff. Primary work: None. I left at 10:50 to go to the wolf party in Marketing Monday: Did two Star Fleet Alerts and sent them New Mexico. You guys behave while I’m gone. I hope to have to Jean to review. video when I get back. 2pm Tuesday Mini-Meeting: Discussed Jean’s trip, ======miniatures production, Captain’s Log #40, art. Primary work: Tried to keep up with Eric’s flow of reports on MY DAY: 24 Oct (Wolf Day) 2009 website work he did. Leanna and I spent the day at the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary Starline 2400: Juggy masters reported in priority mail to in New Mexico. I was the official meat cutter, and each wolf got Tony for neck thickening. Squadron Boxes 25-26 (16 Nov): F5W mold ordered. Cover specifications sent to Eric. MY DAY: 30 Oct (Friday) 2009 Captain’s Log #40 (16 Nov): Worked on possible fiction. Got to the office at 10:08. Weather: 38F, partly cloudy. Border Box #9 (2010): Ordered fixes for the cover. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Canadian triceratops. BBS: ok. Booster #92: Did Lyran CWE and Seltorian CLE and gave Forum: 13, ok. APOD: Bubble Nebula. Sudoku 3:35. Web crawl them to Petrick for his review. completed at 10:57. Lunch: CFS at bowling alley. Starlist NR. Out Stopped working at 7pm and went home a little later. box: 38. Sent to Eric: several work orders adding links to FC ======pages to update them for Hydran Attack. Read FYEO for today. Worked with Steve Petrick on CL40. Exercise: five minute walk MY DAY: 28 Oct (Wednesday) 2009 around the block. Long-range off-hand target shooting: 81. Got to the office at 9:10am. Weather: 50F and cloudy. Email: Carsten (German distributor) asked about minis. I got Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Sinotyrannus. BBS: ok. Forum: a customer request but had to ask them for sure what they want, 11 ok. APOD: Farthest galaxy cluster. Sudoku 2:54. Web crawl and got the answer. Mike Bennett about FC Scenarios. Jean completed at 9:56. Starlist NR. Out box: 36. Sent to Eric: checking Eric’s reports on work he did, and her daily BBS report Corrections to Starmada page. Read FYEO for today. Lunch: and reminder to take my medication. Robert Hineman looking for Roast and vegetables at Furr’s. Exercise: 5 minute walk around a master ship chart. Jean about doing an input guide article. Mike the block. Long-range off-hand target shooting: 80.5. Industry West reports on cards for Booster #92. Loren Knight with a mailing lists: book sales are dropping like stones. proposed new rule. Note from Chaplain Denton. Somebody trying Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Jean’s checking of to sell me web advertising but everything he has is RPG sites. Eric’s work order reports. Mark Kroll about FC spare parts. Adam Bob Nelson sent some marketing ideas, but we’re already doing Turner about art. all but one of them and I don’t think that one would work. Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna stayed home to read the new Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna mail orders. Mike mail orders. Joe Grey book. Mike bookbinding. Eric off duty. Eric website stuff. Customer Request Wednesday: I did a graphic upload Primary work: I pretty much spent the entire day trying to Jean wanted. I spent an hour trying to figure out the “selling find or write a story for CL40. I read five or six submissions, and images” thing without any solution and abandoned that request. I took the last one home with me at 6:30. did some decal requests. ======Primary work: Mike asked me to QC 1,100 map panels. I did the alert and sent it to Mike and Eric. MY DAY: 31 Oct (Halloween) 2009 FC Booster #92 (2010): Updated the six FCB1 cards and Got to the office at 9:30am. Weather: 48F, partly cloudy. gave all eight cards to Petrick for review. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: ceratopsians. BBS: pointless FC Booster #93 (2010): Updated the eight CL36 cards. rehash of Iraq War. Forum: 7. APOD: Nebula. Sudoku 3:41. Web Starline 2400: Discussed art needed for box covers (SqBx crawl completed at 10:24. Lunch: Iron Skillet. Starlist NR. Out 27, Juggy) with Adam. box: 39. Sent to Eric: Fix to sublight page. Read FYEO for today. Captain’s Log #40 (16 Nov): Worked on fiction. Worked with Steve Petrick on CL40. Game Night: Space Hulk. Email: Scott Johnson about the sublight page. ======Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna Orders, accounting. Mike orders. Eric sick. MY DAY: 29 Oct (Thursday) 2009 1PM Work ON Company: Reset the My Day file. Got to the office at 9:25am. Weather: 41F and cloudy. 2PM Staff Meeting: Status of CL40. Reprint of FC cards. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Ouranosaurus. BBS: 33 ok. Primary work: Most of the day on CL#40. Forum: 14 ok. APOD: stupid skyline. Sudoku 3:19. Ann Coulter: Communique (10 Nov): Did Jean’s reports. exposes the Democrat opt-out fraud, and points out that the Captain’s Log #40 (16 Nov): End of day, I have the fiction public option is cheaper because taxpayers subsidize it. Web done and have sent 30 total pages (one-fourth of the book) to crawl completed at 10:24. Starlist NR. Out box: 40. Sent to Eric: Jean so she could start proofreading. The goal for today was wolf movies, SqBx covers, Alert to upload. Read FYEO for today. 40% and we reached 42%. Lunch: Barnaby’s. Worked with Steve Petrick on CL40. Exercise: Quit work at 6:30 to avoid burnout. This is a marathon. 5 minute walk. Long-range off-hand target shooting: 81. Industry ======mailing lists: marketing. Email: Jean’s BBS report and meds reminders. MY DAY: 1 Nov (Sunday) 2009 Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna mail orders, accounting. Mike Got to the office at 2pm. Weather: 75F and clear. mail orders. Eric website work, covers for squadron boxes. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Utahraptors. BBS: ok. Forum: 2pm Thursday Mini-Meeting: Reviewed plans to finish 8. APOD: stupid. Sudoku 3:04. Web crawl completed at 4:19. Captain’s Log; fiction remains a perpetual crisis. Leanna Lunch: Leanna cooked steak and potatoes and green beans. checking into iPhones and e23. Need to get back covers done for Starlist NR. Out box: 38. Read FYEO for today. squadron boxes including back cover photos. Shortage of Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Dale says art will be Klingon Border cards means delaying Booster 93 to use those done for CL40 stories. slots for reprints (Booster 92 gets printed on schedule). Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna, Mike, & Eric off duty. Primary work: Revised the alert about boosters 91-95 and Primary work: Captain’s Log #40 (16 Nov): I called Jean sent it to Mike to send out. and got her reports on a few pages. We’re now up to 45%. Captain’s Log #40 (16 Nov): Set up the files. Went through ======the list of stuff. Sent memos and posted notes on the BBS. Did MY DAY: 2 Nov (Monday) 2009 page 1 (as much as I can). Moaned about the lack of fiction. Starline 2400: Restock on fighters. Checking on status of Got to the office at 8:40. Weather: 45F and clear. F5W mold. Scheduling future work. Tony got the Juggy masters. Deal Making Friday: I finally finished the iPhone contract If we can swing it, we will have a dozen or two Juggies for sale and gave it to Leanna, who wanted to read it one last time. for Christmas. Email: Jean sent reports on SSDs and recommendations for Communique #47 (10 Nov): Sent to staff. Apparently, I only awards for her staff. Nick S sent an article. Mike West sent dreamed that I had sent this when I did it a week ago. reports on Communique 47 and Booster 92. Squadron Boxes 25-26 (16 Nov): Eric did the covers. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Native American legends. BBS: Went home at 7pm. 31 ok. Forum: 8 Ok. APOD: rocket launch. Sudoku 3:40. Web ======crawl completed at 9:20. Starlist NR. Out box: 38. Read FYEO for today. Lunch: pork chop at Logan’s. Worked with Steve slaughtered over 100 gene-stealers without a single casualty. Petrick on CL40. Exercise: five minute walk. Long-range off-hand I went home at 8:30. Petrick and Jean were on the phone target shooting: 78.5. Industry mailing lists: Nada. fixing the style sheet problems in Paul Scott’s article, and this Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna orders, accounting. Mike took them over two hours. bookbinding. Eric off duty. ======Marketing Monday: I did the THIS WEEK blog and sent it to Jean. I did not have time for anything else. MY DAY: 5 Nov (Thursday) 2009 Primary work: Captain’s Log #40 (16 Nov): Reviewed a Got to the office at 8:10am. Weather: 50F, clear blue skies. class history article but scheduled it for CL#41. I did the MSC Petrick, Leanna, and I went to the Tea Party. page and sent it to Petrick, then sent all three shipyard pages to Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Oldest T-rex relative. BBS: ok. Jean. I did the 10Q page and sent that to Petrick, and then to Forum: 11. APOD: stupid. Sudoku 2:57. Ann Coulter: NY23 was Jean. I did the AA and CTF pages and sent them to Petrick, then no surprise. Web crawl completed at 2pm. Lunch: grilled chicken. Jean. (Total six pages to Jean today.) I did the WHY page and Starlist NR. Out box: 29. Sent to Eric: a bunch of stuff. Read sent that to Petrick. FYEO for today. Worked with Steve Petrick on CL40. Exercise: 5 I went to have dinner with Chaplain Denton and resolve my minute walk. Industry mailing lists: Eurowebsite. feelings on a particular issue, then came back and worked until Email: Jean’s daily reports and reminders. late 9pm. Captain’s Log is now 50% done. Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna Accounting. Mike restocking ======inventory. Eric website work. 2pm Thursday Mini-Meeting: We decided to try to release MY DAY: 3 Nov (Tuesday) 2009 Border Box 9 on the 16th. Wish us luck getting all of the parts. Got to the office at 9:00. Weather: 47F, clear skies. Primary work: Captain’s Log #40 (16 Nov): I sent the SFG Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Cretaceous-Paleogene stuff. I processed reports and graded term papers. I called and Boundary. BBS: Carl MC is being insulting again. Forum: 5. got Jean’s reports on a bunch of pages, bringing us to 65.73%. APOD: Pleiades. Sudoku 3:00. Web crawl completed at 9:55. I was sick most of the day and didn’t get a lot done, and Starlist NR. Out box: 39. Sent to Eric: delete some dead PHP finally went home at 8pm. topics. Read FYEO for today. Lunch: grilled chicken and veggies. ======Worked with Steve Petrick on CL40. Long-range off-hand target shooting: 82. Industry mailing lists: Little Cthuhlu. MY DAY: 6 Nov (Friday) 2009 Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Paul Franz sent in two Got to the office at 9:03pm. Weather: 59F and clear. of his three articles. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Postosuchus. BBS: 18, ok. Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna accounting. Mike warehouse. Forum: 1. APOD: Nebula and galaxy. Sudoku 3:12. Web crawl Eric website stuff and things I need for CL40. completed at 9:50. Starlist 83501. Out box: 29. Read FYEO for 2pm Tuesday Mini-Meeting: today. Lunch: Cheddars. Worked with Steve Petrick on CL40. Primary work: Captain’s Log #40 (16 Nov): I took the S8 Long-range off-hand target shooting: 76. Industry mailing lists: update that Petrick did, slapped it into format, and sent it (8 colleges teaching game design. pages) to Jean. I did the Starline page and gave it to Petrick to Email: Jean’s reminders and BBS report. read. I did the monster article (3.5 pages) and the Anarchist Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna accounting. Mike packing article (0.5 pages) and waited for Petrick to check the Anarchist. I products. Eric Packing products. Leanna and I took an hour off to did the Paul Scott Victory at Origins 2008 article (11 pages) and look at the plans the architect did for her new bathroom. sent that to Jean. That pushed us beyond 55% complete with 19 Deal Making Friday: iPhone contract finished and faxed. pages sent to Jean (total 55). Primary work: Captain’s Log #40 (16 Nov): I started by John Sickels stopped by on his annual trip to Arizona, and grading some command notes for Petrick. I did the squadron we enjoyed a nice dinner. scale versions of the FRAX ships, gave that to Petrick, got them ======back, fixed them, did the fleet scale ones, got Petrick to check them and did his fixes. Did the FRAX rules page. Sent the whole MY DAY: 4 Nov (Wednesday) 2009 thing to the staff and Jean. Petrick and I did the FC command Got to the office at 8:40am. Weather: 46F, clear skies. notes, SFB term papers, and F&E Tac notes and sent them to Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: teenage T-rexes fought. BBS: Jean. We are now 70% finished, and I went home at 6pm. ok. Forum: 5, ok. APOD: blue sun. Sudoku 3:05. Web crawl ======completed at 9:56. Starlist NR. Out box: 35. Sent to Eric: fixes to site. Read FYEO for today. Lunch: Applebys. Worked with Steve MY DAY: 7 Nov (Saturday) 2009 Petrick on CL40. Industry mailing lists: drawstring bags. Got to the office at 9am. Weather: 57F and clear. Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Note from John Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: fossil birds. BBS: ok. Forum: 4. Sickels. Jean sent some really funny stuff. APOD: Crater on Phobos. Sudoku 3:26. Web crawl completed at Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna accounting. Mike packing 10AM. Lunch: Furrs. Starlist NR. Out box: 29. Read FYEO for games to rebuild inventory. Eric off duty. today. Worked with Steve Petrick on CL40. Exercise: walk Appointment: 4pm, Architect designing Leanna’s new around the block. Long-range off-hand target shooting: 68. bathroom, which is bigger than some apartments I lived in. Industry mailing lists: colleges teaching game design. Customer Request Wednesday: I did two RPG play aides Email: not much. for Jean and did an FC MSC in point value order. Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna accounting. Mike checking in Primary work: Captain’s Log #40 (16 Nov): I got the minis shipment. Eric off duty. Anarchist article back from Petrick and sent it and the monster 1PM Work ON Company: Reset the My Day file. stuff to Jean (4 pages, total). I finished the WHY page and sent 2PM Staff Meeting: No art from Adam Turner; this may that to Jean (4+1=5). With Eric’s photos and Petrick’s help, I got mean Captain’s Log #40 will be delayed. All attempts to contact the minis page done and send to Jean (6) and then with Petrick’s him have failed. help I got the fighter page done and sent to Jean (7). With Primary work: Captain’s Log #40: I processed reports. I did Petrick’s report in hand, I sent Proposals Board to Jean (8). I got the Old Galaxy pirate for FC and gave it to Petrick to check. the tournament reports from Paul Franz and sent the news page Petrick finished battleforce but I wasn’t up to dealing with it. to Petrick and to Jean (9). This brought us to 61.77%, beyond the I was sick most of the day and did not get a lot done. goal for the day. I must have missed something, as Jean has ======now been sent 65 pages. MY DAY: 8 Nov (Sunday) 2009 Game Night: Space Hulk. Petrick’s Space Marines Got to the office at 2:10pm. Weather: 72F and clear. went to dinner and Jean dictated her S8 corrections to Petrick. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Feathered dinos. BBS: ok. I Jean then dictated her corrections on everything else she had began the “viewpoint only” experiment. Jean thinks it won’t work. done to me. I then sent out the OGP ships and rules to the FC Forum: 5 ok. APOD: My cluster. Sudoku 3:33. Web crawl staff. I was going to get more done, but I hit the end of my rope at completed at 3:45. Lunch: Leanna cooked porkchops. Starlist 10pm and went home. NR. Out box: 30. Read FYEO for today. Worked with Steve ======Petrick on CL40. Exercise: took Ramses hunting. Long-range off- hand target shooting: 71. Industry mailing lists: IRS vs MY DAY: 11 Nov (Veteran’s Day) 2009 Freelancers. Got to the office at 9:35am. Weather: 60F, whispy clouds. Email: Note from the Siadek brothers on the joint venture. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: dino voices. BBS: ok. Forum: 6 Note from Jean on the BBS. Jean called to check in and we ok. APOD: center of the galaxy. Web crawl completed at 10:31. discussed CL40 and some BBS issues. Lunch: CFS at Vicki’s. Starlist 52402. Out box: 32. Sent to Eric: Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna, Mike, Eric off duty. link checks. Read FYEO for today. Worked with Steve Petrick on Primary work: CL40: I did the SIT (which is mostly blank at CL40. Industry mailing lists: PAX East. I was going to blow it off, this point) and sent it to the F&E staff. Frank Brooks sent in the but Petrick convinced me to walk around the block. His fast pace PBEM articles, and I formatted them into the issue. I formatted left me gasping for breath for over an hour. the Galactic Conquest article but had to send a note to Jean to Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Staffers about CL40. provide some missing info. I sent the FCEM/OL articles to Jean Leanna reports that we got the biggest Alliance restock this year. and went home at 6pm. Got a surprise phone call from an old State Guard buddy (Dyer). ======Nicholas Sandberg offered to check the starmada cards. Staff: Petrick: CL40. Leanna and Mike: orders. Eric off duty. MY DAY: 9 Nov (Monday) 2009 Customer Request Wednesday: Somebody on the forum Got to the office at 9:50am. Weather: 54F and foggy. I found wanted the new FC scout rules so I posted them. an empty lady’s purse on the front porch, and (since in theory it Marketing Monday: I had to stop work on CL#40 and do the could be evidence of a crime) I called the police, who sent a press release that I could not do Monday because my system patrol officer to pick it up. Maybe it’s nothing, but maybe it’s hard disk was dying. (all of the data was recovered.) The alert will connected to some crime in the area. Not my business. go out tomorrow; Jean read it this evening. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Pteros might be dinos? BBS: Primary work: Leanna and I had to drive over and check the ok. Forum: 5, ok. APOD: galaxy collission. Sudoku 3:24. Web proofs for the CL40 covers. crawl completed at 12:43. Lunch: steak at Logan’s. Starlist NR. CL40: I was doing my morning routine, one step of which is Out box: 31. Sent to Eric: new vassal file, new BBS map. Read to clean out the attachments folder (which fills up with spam). I FYEO for today. Worked with Steve Petrick on CL40. Exercise: noticed four Starmada cards in TIF format (Dan Kast sent them) shopping. and put them into the issue (score 2 pages). I processed Growler Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Various staff reports. (which is such a horror of style book violations and convoluted Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna cover for CL40. Mike Inventory. writing that I seriously considered entering the priesthood to Eric off duty. avoid having to do it), and those four pages pushed us to 80% Marketing Monday: I did the THIS WEEK blog but with finished. (The plan was to be 95% finished today.) We called CapLog behind schedule I didn’t have time to do anything else. Jean and got a bunch of reports from her. After some planning Primary work: We got the CL40 cover art (finally). I discussions, I did the five-page battlegroup article, which brought requested quotes from the printers and helped Leanna with the us to 83% complete. I did four pages of Venues and sent that to cover. I did the Old Galaxy pirates for FC, but there was nothing Jean, which took us to 84%, and I went home at 10:30pm. else I could do on CL40 due to problems with my computer, Starline 2400: We got the revised art for Squadron Box #25. which has to be taken into the shop overnight to be fixed. So, we Eric did it last night, and we sent it to press. Unfortunately, Adam lose another day’s work and the odds of releasing this issue on put the wrong ships on the Border Box #9 cover and is doing this time drop like a rock. I left at 4:30pm because there was nothing I over tonight. We will print it tomorrow. could do. It would take six or seven hours to copy the CL40 files Game Night: Logistics puzzle. to another computer (due to all of the links) and doing so would ======gain nothing. My computer will be back in operation tomorrow, or we won’t be releasing CL40 this year. Whatever. MY DAY: 12 Nov (Thursday) 2009 ======Got to the office at 9am. Weather: 55F, a few clouds. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Aardonyx celestae. BBS: ok. MY DAY: 10 Nov (Tuesday) 2009 Forum: 7. APOD: supernova in a distant galaxy. Ann Coulter: Got to the office at 9am. Weather: 50F and foggy. I couldn’t why Moslems were the real victims at Fort Hood. Web crawl do much until my repaired computer was returned at 2pm. completed at 9:55am. Lunch: Barnaby’s. Starlist NR. Out box: 30. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Europaleo. BBS: ok. Forum: Sent to Eric: Alert to upload. Read FYEO for today. Worked with ok. APOD: Saturn. Sudoku no longer works on my mac. Steve Petrick on CL40. Industry mailing lists: PAX East. Bummer. Web crawl completed at 4pm. Lunch: taco salad. Email: Nicholas Sandberg found mistakes in two KA cards; I Starlist NR. Out box: 29. Sent to Eric: stuff for newsletter and sent a note to Daniel Kast to fix and replace them. Terry O'Carroll communique. Read FYEO for today. Worked with Steve Petrick sent some KA tactics. Scott Moellmer playtest report on FC SFG on CL40. Industry mailing lists: Flash banners. rules. Email: Dale McKee see CL40 art. Loren Knight sent the Staff: Petrick CL40 scenarios. Leanna and Mike on pirate logo. Jean’s reports and reminders. Daniel did four new wholesaler orders. Eric on website stuff and helping Mike. ships for Klingon Armada for CL40. 2pm Thursday Mini-Meeting: Discussion of CL40 and Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna fixing my computer. Mike Border Box 9. checking in minis. Eric newsletter and communique. Primary work: CL40: I did as much as I could to update the 2pm Tuesday Mini-Meeting: Petrick chaired the meeting. Table of Contents and awards pages, which are the numerically Leanna pointed out the need to send miniatures package covers earliest pages not finished, but they still aren’t finished, of course. to press immediately. I got the FC intro page and scenarios done and sent to the staff, Primary work: I needed to get to work on CL40, but instead which is a total of 100 pages sent to Jean. Moving on, I did the I had to finish the Hailing Frequencies newsletter and SFBF card game page, and the two Starmada pages, total now Communique #47 so Eric could upload them on time. I did not 103. That leaves 7 pages of F&E and 10 of SFB scenarios. get to start on CL40 until 5pm. After doing some work on it, I Petrick has done several scenarios (so they’re probably going to be ready to go into pagemaker tomorrow). I called Jean and got on the TOC and Awards page, then we went to lunch. Got back her reports to date. We are at 87% finished. from lunch and spent nearly two hours on the phone with Jean Starline 2400: After more trials and tribulations than you can fixing the scenarios, but finally started building the PDF at count, we got the Border Box #9 cover, but discovered that I had 2:10pm. The PDF went to Leanna at 2:30 and was approved for misordered a ship and we may not have enough to cover sales. printing at 2:55pm. Production began, and I took a nap. Then we discovered that Mike had misordered two ships, so we Then I took a walk, did target shooting, did the THIS WEEK contacted Bruce to get emergency shipments sent. blog, cleaned up my desk, did about half of the FLAP list. I finally went home at 11pm. Mike Sparks commented on how much work he had to do to ======get orders out Monday, so Petrick and I chipped in, helping run the printing plant, folding covers, and packing miniature boxes. MY DAY: 13 Nov (Friday) 2009 I finally went home at 8:30pm. Got to the office at 9:30am. Weather: 59F and cloudy. ======Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Tyrannosaurid Interrelation- ships. BBS: ok. Forum: 5. APOD: Rho Ophiuchi Cloud. Web MY DAY: 16 Nov (Monday) 2009 crawl completed at 10:40. Lunch: Furrs, turkey. Starlist NR. Out Got to the office at 9:53. Weather: 37F and clear. box: 29. Sent to Eric: stuff for CL40. Read FYEO for today. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Darwinopterus, Pterorhynchus Worked with Steve Petrick on CL40. Exercise: 5 minute walk. and Wukongopterus. BBS: ok. Sent to FCOL: Frax CA. Forum: 6. Industry mailing lists: Pax East. APOD: M83 Galaxy. Web crawl completed at 12:40. Lunch: Email: Aaron Somerville with clarifications on the Klingon chopped steak at Logan’s. Starlist NR. Out box: 31. Sent to Eric: Armada example. Jay Waschak about the iPhone contract. CL40 stuff. Industry mailing lists: RPG Covers. Daniel Kast about Starmada. Jean’s reports and reminders. Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna Orders. Mike orders. Eric stuff Staff: Petrick helping Mike get orders out. Leanna orders. for CL40. Mike orders and inventory. Eric off duty. Deal Making Friday: iPhone contract signed. Marketing Monday: I actually did the “this week” blog Primary work: CL40: I did the F&E new rule, F&E proposals yesterday. board, F&E why, and the Q&A and sent the whole F&E section to Primary work: I worked on the FLAP list some, but mostly the staff about 6pm. I went to dinner, then came back and did the cleaned up my desk and computer. I got a call at 3:30 to go meet first three scenarios by 8pm, and the next three by 8:30. These the contractor for the new bathroom and left to do so, and did not were sent to Jean, pushing us to 92.29%. I called Jean for some return. reports and kept her up as long as I dared. That got us a long ======way. I did the Table of Contents, which means 119 pages have been sent to Jean. We are 94.9% complete as of 11:30pm. MY DAY: 17 Nov (Tuesday) 2009 Petrick and I went home at midnight. Got to the office at 9:20. Weather: 42F and clear. ======Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Triceratops horrida. BBS: 46 ok. Forum: 6. APOD: very pretty and educational scifi painting. MY DAY: 14 Nov (Saturday) 2009 Web crawl completed at 10:35. Lunch: Chicken at cheddars. Got to the office at 10:05. Weather: 47F and cloudy. Starlist NR. Out box: 31. Sent to Eric: Alert. Read FYEO for Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: new book. BBS: ok. Forum: 5. yesterday and today. Exercise: two laps. Industry mailing lists: APOD: stupid non-astronomy. Web crawl completed at 10:35. Facebook Hackers. Lunch: BBQ at country barn. Starlist NR. Out box: 28. Sent to Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Tony el’tomas and Eric: minis back covers. Read FYEO for today. Worked with Mike West sent stuff for the CL40 supplemental file. Anthony Steve Petrick on CL40. Exercise: 5 minute walk. Cutcliffe asked about posting his scenario on the forum. Loren Email: Grafton proposals. Various reports. Jean’s reports Knight sent something about starbases. Patrick Doyle sent his and reminders. (She went ballistic over the idea of two gun article. Jack Huskey about a campaign game. Mat Scull about control topics, so she’s not going to like Life/Choice topics either.) train games. Chaplain Denton about a restaurant. Anthony Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna minis and accounting. Mike Cutcliffe about a scenario. minis. Eric came in to take photos of minis. Marketing Monday: Catching up, I did a blog for Jean and I 1PM Work ON Company: Reset the My Day file. did the new product released alert. I answered a customer 2PM Staff Meeting: Went well, and quickly. question on products. Support request from Communicon sent Primary work: CL40: I called Jean and got a bunch of her the usual Email. reports, which pushed us to 95.42%. I did the rest of the staff 2pm Tuesday Mini-Meeting: Eric was Chairman. SVC is reports, and by 8pm we were printing out the final check copy, working on CL40S, needs some stuff for it from Petrick, and doing the awards list, then going through the stack again and needs to call a few wholesalers. SPP is helping Mike get orders again and again, reprinting pages on which we found a glitch. We out and doing stuff SVC needs for CL40Sup. Leanna is printing are 98.23% finished, lacking only a few pages of Jean’s reports, books and doing orders, and was told to upload the two old and the F&E guys reporting in. CapLogs to e23. Mike Sparks is working on orders. Eric is We went home at 9:30. Or at least, we plan to as of 9:15. working on uploading stuff for the CL40 Flap List. Jean is busy ======with a real world crisis but is setting up plans for her trip. Primary work: CL#40 Supplemental File: I set up the MY DAY: 15 Nov (Sunday) 2009 format, transfered over the headings, and started inserting stuff I Got to the office at 10:03am. Weather: 56F and cloudy. had saved for this file. I did two Frax ships for this project. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: dinosaur soft tissues. BBS: ok. Starline 2400: We got a shipment of minis so that we can Forum: 3. APOD: Ring Nebula. Suduko 4:48 (new site, different fully ship all of the Border box orders. system). Web crawl completed at 10:20. Lunch: Turkey at Captain’s Log #41 (May 2010): As part of working on the Calico’s. Starlist NR. Out box: 27. Read FYEO for today. Worked CL#40 Supplemental File, I set up the blank formats for CL#41. with Steve Petrick on CL40. Exercise: 10 minute walk. Long- I called it a night at 7pm and went home. range off-hand target shooting: 63. ======Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. F&E staff reports. Staff: Petrick CL40. Leanna CL40. Mike packing minis, MY DAY: 18 Nov (Wednesday) 2009 binding books. Eric off duty. Got to the office at 9am. Weather: 37F and clear. Primary work: CL40: Unable to contact Jean, I did the F&E Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Archaeopteryx book. BBS: ok. reports, finishing them at 10:40. I called Jean and got her reports Forum: ok. APOD: lunar impact = water. Websudoku: 5:27 Web crawl completed at 9:49. Lunch: Dyer’s BBQ. Starlist 80003. Out packing orders. Eric website updates. box: 30. Sent to Eric: play aide, stuff for hailing frequencies. Deal Making Friday: I talked to the Dead In Space guys, Read FYEO for, well, I didn’t read it today. Worked with Steve who said they were sending the long-awaited email, but hours Petrick on CL40S. Exercise: two laps, counter-clockwise this later it had never arrived. time. Industry mailing lists: Facebook hacks. Primary work: I worked mostly on the CL40 flap list. I did Email: Paul Franz about ships sent to FCOL. Jean’s reports the large print edition (Petrick helped with the page numbers) and and reminders. Mike West about early Romulans. updated the text catalog. Petrick had me read the battlegroup file Staff: Petrick CL40S. Leanna doing invoices for orders. Mike so he could start that project. wholesale orders. Eric at school. Leanna called and wanted me home so I left at 5:30. Customer Request Wednesday: I did a Klingon Army ======insignia page for Jean and some other customer requests. Primary work: CL40 Supplement: I did the Frax DN and MY DAY: 21 Nov (Saturday) 2009 Petrick checked it. Petrick had left the Frax FF and POL on my Got to the office at 9am. Weather: 38F and clear. desk, so I made those fixes and sent those three ships to the FC Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Cretaceous Crocs. BBS: ok. Staff. I kept pounding on the Supplemental File, doing pages 1- Forum: ok. APOD: nice galaxy. Sudoku 5:58. Web crawl 14, 26-27, and 30-32, all sent to Jean. I’m not sure yet if I have completed at 12:05. Lunch: FDS at Malcomb’s. Starlist 13118. too much stuff or not enough. Out box: 30. Sent to Eric: link fix. Read FYEO for today. Worked Finally went to dinner at 7pm. with Steve Petrick on CL40S. Exercise: two laps. Game Night: We plan to play Die in Place during dinner. Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. ======Staff: Petrick Captain’s Log #41. Leanna processing mail orders. Mike packing orders. Eric at school function. MY DAY: 19 Nov (Thursday) 2009 1PM Work ON Company: Reset the My Day file. Got to the office at 8:40. Weather: 38F, a few clouds. 2PM Staff Meeting: A quick one. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: first pterosaur trackways from 4pm Saturday Caplog Meeting: Went over the list. Japan. BBS: 25 ok. Forum: 5 ok. APOD: stupid skyline. Primary work: A lot of time on phone with Jean to get her Websudoku: 4:45. Ann Coulter: explains why diversity is not reports on the Supplement. always a strength. Web crawl completed at 10:36. Lunch: Went home at 7pm. Barnaby’s. Starlist NR. Out box: 32. Sent to Eric: improvement to ======booster pack list. Read FYEO for yesterday and today. Worked with Steve Petrick on CL40S. Exercise: two laps. Short-range MY DAY: 22 Nov (Sunday) 2009 target shooting: 97. Industry mailing lists: Improv Radio. Got to the office at 1:30. Weather: 60F and clear. Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Todd Haffner looking Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: pterosaur. BBS: ok. Forum: 6. for impulse cards (Module A+). APOD: starflash. Web crawl completed at 2pm. Lunch: Leanna’s 2pm Thursday Mini-Meeting: Mike Sparks, Chairman. SVC home cooking. Exercise: I walked the cat. has finished the CL40 supplement and is working on the FLAP Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. list. He needs to do the Large Print Edition. SPP is proofreading Staff: Petrick CL41. Leanna was off duty. Mike was binding the CL40 supplement, and plans to start on CL41. Leanna is books. Eric was off duty. doing invoicing and accounting. She asked pointed questions Primary work: I spent an hour on the phone with Jean about why we are giving away nearly 200 pages of publishable finishing the CL#40 supplement. material per year in the newsletter and supplements. Mike has ======finished the wholesale orders and supervised the mechanic who MY DAY: 23 Nov (Monday) 2009 fixed the bookletmaker. Eric is uploading stuff SVC sent him. Got to the office at 8:30am. Weather: 45F and clear. Jean is proofing the CL40 supplement. Mike brought up the idea Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Ceratosauria. BBS: ok. Sent to of doing a series of YouTube movies to promote and explain our FCOL: Hydran CWS. Sudoku 6:06. Forum: 6 ok. APOD: Rosetta products. This got enthusiastic support and the goal is to have spacecraft. Web crawl completed at 11am. Lunch: ham at Furr’s. the first movies uploaded within two weeks and do at least two Starlist NR. Out box: 30. Sent to Eric: Index of Captain’s Log. more every month. Read FYEO for yesterday and today. Exercise: two laps. Primary work: I finished the CL#40 Supplement before Email: Jean’s BBS report, dealing with a previously banned lunch and sent everything to Jean. It is 32 very good pages. person who could not behave, and her reminders. Captain’s Log #41 (May): I processed some leftover bits and Staff: Petrick CL41. Leanna Orders. Mike bookbinding, notes into the actual CL#41 pages. orders. Eric website updates. CL#40: I worked on the FLAP list and notified everybody Marketing Monday: I did the THIS WEEK blog. getting free copies. Primary work: I did a little work converting FC cards from I left at 4:30 to go to the brick plant about the bricks for the CL40 and FCHA into FCOL cards. I updated the Index of addition to my house. Captain’s Log. Leanna and I had a long meeting with the ======contractor for the new addition/bathroom. MY DAY: 20 Nov (Friday) 2009 Quit work at 6pm, went home at 7pm. Got to the office at 8:44am. Weather: 36F and clear. ======Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Thanksgiving theropods. BBS: MY DAY: 24 Nov (Tuesday) 2009 ok except for one deliberate rules violation Jean slapped down. Forum: 7 ok. APOD: magellanic clouds. Websudoku 5:57 Web Got to the office at 9:30am. Weather: 42F and clear. crawl completed at 10:18. Lunch: turkey at Furr’s. Starlist NR. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: new croco-gator. BBS: ok. Sent Out box: 29. Sent to Eric: text catalog. Read FYEO for today. to FCOL: Kzinti DF. Forum: 7 ok. APOD: ice jets on Enceladus. Exercise: two laps. Sudoku 5:30. Web crawl completed at 10:24. Lunch: Wendy’s. Email: Anthony Cutcliffe, Bart Pyle, Dale McKee, Mike West, Starlist NR. Out box: 30. Sent to Eric: ship cards from Comm-41. Art Trotman, Terry O'Carroll about their free CL40. Jean’s BBS Read FYEO for today. Exercise: two laps. report, post deletions. Chaplain Denton sent inspirational words. Marketing Monday: Still doing some of this. I wrote up the Jean about the coloring book idea. Scott Johnson’s one-man “flap list blog” and sent it to Jean (since I finished the flap list only crusade for certain downloads. Jean never reminded me to take today.) Nice chat with Ross at Lion Rampant resolved the issues my medication, but I remembered by myself. and we are sending them a huge order tomorrow. Staff: Petrick CL40 flap list. Leanna accounting. Mike Email: Jean’s BBS report and reminders. Approved Tos’s link to the Republican health care bill that Democrats claim does Email: Dale McKee had some insights worth noting. Jean’s not exist. Xander’s story submission. reports and reminders. Jay Waschak fiction. Tony el’Tomas says 2pm Tuesday Mini-Meeting: SVC just finished the CL40 that juggy masters are en route to AOG. flap list, and is looking at F&E 2010 and PDFEDs. Petrick has Staff: Petrick CL41. Leanna accounting. Mike off duty. Eric taken over doing mail orders for Leanna, who has gone home not off duty. feeling well. Mike is doing mail orders, Jean is getting PDFEDs What got done: I cleaned up some clutter and answered ready to work on, and Eric is uploading stuff to the website. some emails. I had a nice chat with Chaplain Denton. I helped Primary work: I did some more work converting FCHA Leanna clean up the stacks of “books with one bad page” which cards into FCOL cards, but uploads are still a week or two away. were all over the print shop tables. Leanna finally announced at Leanna and I went to look at granite counter tops. 4:30 that we were going home. Starline 2400: Sent queries to define the status of Juggy pre- ======production for Christmas sales. Bruce hasn’t seen them yet, but Tony’s article in CL40S said they were done. MY DAY: 28 Nov (Saturday) 2009 Quit work at 6pm, but didn’t go home until a little later. Got to the office at 9am. Weather: 55F and clear. ======Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Wukongopterus. BBS: 28 ok. Forum: 11 ok. APOD: star trails. Sudoku 5:06. Web crawl MY DAY: 25 Nov (Wednesday) 2009 completed at 10:32. Lunch: Furr’s. Starlist NR. Out box: 31. Sent Got to the office at 9am. Weather: 44F and clear. to Eric: Videos for YouTube. Exercise: two laps. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Cruxicheiros. BBS: ok. Here’s Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Jean’s review of Eric’s a clue, when you find yourself typing “I know I’m not supposed to work. be in this topic...” then don’t post there! Sent to FCOL: Old Actual work: I converted a few FCHA ships to JPGs. I wrote Galaxy Destroyer. Forum: 8. APOD: all-sky milky way. Web crawl a blog so Petrick wouldn’t have to. Mike, Eric, and I shot two completed at 10:51. Lunch: BBQ at Country Barn. Starlist NR. movies for YouTube. Out box: 32. Sent to Eric: starmada cards, links, a bunch of other ======stuff. Read FYEO for today. Exercise: two laps. Industry mailing lists: some small con got cancelled due to not enough hotel MY DAY: 29 Nov (Sunday) 2009 rooms being booked. Stayed home with Leanna and de-stressed. Email: Jean’s BBS report (quiet). Tony Thomas reports that ======the modified Juggies will go to Bruce on Friday. André Henseler asked a question that I sent to Petrick, and later he asked MY DAY: 30 Nov (Monday) 2009 another question I also sent to Petrick. Got to the office at 8:30am. Weather: 32F and clear. Staff: Petrick CL41. Leanna doing mail orders. Mike doing Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Vancleavea campi. BBS: 43 mail orders. Eric website updates. You should all check WHAT’S ok. Sent to FCOL: energy monster, Frax CW, Frax DW, Lyran NEW because Eric uploaded a boatload of stuff today. CWS. Forum: 14, ok. APOD: space station (breathtaking, but not Customer Request Wednesday: I updated the Fed astronomy); yesterday’s Mars photo was good. Sudoku 6:06. Commander Scenario Database and gave it to Eric to upload to Web crawl completed at 10:56. Lunch: salmon at Logan’s. the Commander’s Circle. I did the Klingon Army EM rank chart Starlist NR. Out box: 31. Sent to Eric: new Gazetteer. Read and sent that to Eric to upload for Jean. I did a gazetteer of the FYEO for the last three days (caught up). Industry mailing lists: map, planets, and so forth, just a preliminary unfinished version, Monsterpocalypse. and sent it to Eric to upload. At Jean’s request, Petrick updated Email: Terry O’Carroll did Army Builder files for Fed the on-line all aces list and sent it to Eric to upload. Commander and is doing one for Klingon Armada, Eric will Primary work: I did some work on getting ships ready for upload them when they’re ready. Jean’s reports and reminders. FCOL. After I created the FC scenario database, I took time to fill Shawn Hantke had an idea which (as I understand it) duplicates in some of the missing data (from FCB1). something already done under another title. Paul Scott had an Game Night: We didn’t. Holiday weekend and all that. idea for an article and I reviewed it and told him how to proceed. ======Staff: Petrick orders, articles for CapLog. Leanna orders, accounting. Mike orders. Eric off duty. MY DAY: 26 Nov (Thanksgiving) 2009 Marketing Monday: I did the THIS WEEK AT ADB blog and Got to the office at 4:45. Weather: 70F and clear. The plan sent it to Jean. today was for everybody to stay home and enjoy being with Primary work: I did some work on converting ship cards for family, but Petrick and I snuck in for an hour to check email and FC. I did more work on the FC Scenario database, finishing the clear out the spam filters. communiques and doing FCDK. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: avatar. BBS: ok. Forum: 16. Leanna and I made another trip to look at granite slabs for APOD: dust cloud in Orion. Ann Coulter: reminding us that the new bathroom. I went home at 8pm. liberals said the kind of attack on Fort Hood was not possible ======(when Bush claimed to have stopped one before it happened). Web crawl completed at 5:24. Lunch: turkey; Leanna cooked. MY DAY: 1 Dec (Tuesday) 2009 Industry mailing lists: PDF piracy. Got to the office at 9:24am. Weather: 40F and cloudy. Email: Celestia sent a hillarious joke. Jean’s reports and Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: archosaurs. BBS: 24 ok. reminders. Some other email I left for tomorrow. Forum: 4 ok. APOD: spectacular Veil Nebula; everybody should ======go see it. Web crawl completed at 10:51. Lunch: enchiladas at La Fiesta. Starlist 48910. Out box: 30. Sent to Eric: artist pages. MY DAY: 27 Nov (Friday) 2009 Read FYEO for today. BBS Reduction Project: cleared Jean to Got to the office at 10:40. Weather: 60F and clear. The plan delete two topics. Exercise: 26 minutes walking. Industry mailing for today was for everyone to stay home and de-stress, but lists: paying artists royalties instead of flat fees to reduce the art Leanna insisted that she had too much work to do and didn’t budget. want to go to the office alone, so here I am. Email: Jeans reports, reminders, & deletions of BBS posts. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: post-meal stupor in theropods. Staff: Petrick SFB Scenarios. Leanna Orders. Mike Orders, BBS: ok-25. Forum: ok-4. APOD: very interesting galaxy. Sudoku checking in miniatures. Eric setting up dec newsletter, website. 6:44. Web crawl completed at 11:13. Lunch: fish at Furr’s. Starlist 2pm Tuesday Meeting: Continuing major discussion of some spam bot filled out the form. Out box: 30. Read FYEO for 2010 schedule. yesterday and today. Exercise: repaired siding on house. Primary work: I did the Klingon Attack scenarios for the FC database document. I did a little work on FCOL ship cards people who cannot select the correct shipping (you cannot send (Stripped 1, Arranged 6, exported to jpg 8, resized 2). Eric got the UPS to Europe) are slowing things down for everybody. Eric is December newsletter shaped up, so I sent him more fiction, big working on the website. Mike is getting orders out. Jean has news, revised schedule, mini of the month, new mini of the finished the FCBP92 cards. Mike and Eric have scheduled the month, and other stuff. next movie shoot for Saturday. I took an hour to go look at more granite with Leanna. Primary work: FCOL Cards: stripped 4, rearranged 4, I quit work at 7pm and went home somewhat later. exported 7 to JPG, resized 8. Did the Orion Attack scenarios for ======the FC Scenario Database enhancement project. Went home at 7pm. MY DAY: 2 Dec (Wednesday) 2009 ======Got to the office at 9:40am. Weather: 28F and cloudy. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Sauropod gastroliths. BBS: 24 MY DAY: 4 Dec (Friday) 2009 ok. Forum: 8 ok. APOD: Rosetta Nebula; man, would that make a Got to the office at 8:50am. Weather: 20F and cloudy. game cover or what? Sudoku 7:26. Web crawl completed at Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Open Dinosaur Project. BBS: 11:03. Lunch: awful, leave it at that. Starlist NR. Out box: 32. 23 ok. Forum: 4. APOD: double star cluster. Sudoku 5:18. Web Sent to Eric: video page. Read FYEO for today. mid-range target crawl completed at 9:29. Lunch: turkey at Furr’s. Starlist NR. Out shooting: 97. Industry mailing lists: average first-week sales have box: 38. Sent to Eric: stuff for artist pages. Read FYEO for today. (industry wide) dropped 50% over the last 6 years. Industry mailing lists: Hardback sales. Email: Bruce Graw with pricing info. Gary Carney with a Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. customer request. Jean’s BBS deletions, reports, and reminders. Staff: Petrick CL41. Leanna orders. Mike orders. Eric She says that policing the liberal/conservative topics is taking too helping Mike since the PC “Jack” crashed and burned. much of her time, so I changed the protocol. Jean called about Deal Making Friday: Tried to contact Dead in Space. noon reporting another failed attempted burglary of her house, Primary work: FCOL cards: rearranged 2; exported 23. Did and said she has mentally resolved to move to an apartment in the Romulan Attack scenarios for the FC Scenario database. town because the sheriff is unable to stop crime in the Wrote a page of CL41 and gave Petrick four SSDs to do. Worked countryside. on the FC tournament rules page for CL41. Spent two hours on Staff: Petrick fast battleship SSDs. Leanna orders. Mike, the phone with Jean and got the Booster #92 cards updated. orders, minis check in, and eliminated the virus that infected one Finally went home about 8pm. of the PCs. Eric off duty. ======Customer Request Wednesday: Did Hydran Rank insignia chart for Jean. Mike West asked me to do a CRUL-Rev5 and I MY DAY: 5 Dec (Saturday) 2009 did. I am not sure why a proposal is in CSW, but I reviewed a Got to the office at 10:02. Weather: 33F and clear. It got to ship Loren Knight sent Steve Petrick and sent a possible about 54F by mid-afternoon. Leanna and I came in one car so alternative to them both. Gary Carney asked for an Old Galaxy she could work late since she cannot drive after dark. pirate emblem, so I did one. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Noasaurid claws. BBS: 18 ok. Primary work: I did some more FCOL conversions: Forum: 6 ok. APOD: stupid skyline. Sudoku 5:16. Web crawl rearranged: 4, exported to jpg: 4, resized: 10. Continuing to completed at 11:06. Lunch: steak at Country Barn. Starlist NR. piddle on the FC Scenario Database, today I did the last four Out box: 43. Sent to Eric: changes to main page. Read FYEO for columns for the five scenarios in Klingon Border. I tried again to today. Worked with Steve Petrick on CL41, comm-48. contact the Dead in Space guys, who never sent the promised Email: Jean about art pages. Jeffery York about what’s in contract forms. I put the scenario and two ships into stock. David D about CL35. Jean’s reports and reminders. Communique #48. Catching up on Older Email: Gary Carney about Starmada Game Night: Too late, too cold. Went home at 6pm. stuff. ======Staff: Petrick CL41. Leanna Orders. Mike orders, minis restocks, movies. Eric website, movies. MY DAY: 3 Dec (Thursday) 2009 1PM Work ON Company: Reset the My Day file. Got to the office at 8:30. Weather: 23F and cloudy, we had a 2PM Staff Meeting: Reviewed progress and assignments. trace of snow overnight. Leanna is getting seriously buried in her work. We discussed the Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: KT firestorm. BBS: 32, ok movie project. except for CMC insisting on constant misbehavior, which is no 4pm Saturday Caplog Meeting: Petrick and I discussed the longer to be tolerated. Forum: 12 ok. APOD: polar ring galaxy. SSDs he is working on. Sudoku 4:43. Ann Coulter: global warming fraud. Web crawl Primary work: FCOL cards: 6 rearranged, 1 exported, 8 completed at 10:54. Lunch: Barnaby’s. Starlist NR. Out box: 36. resized. I did the FC scenario database added info for Romulan Sent to Eric: create Starmada category on forum. Read FYEO for border. Eric, Mike, and I shot four more movies, but it will take a today. Worked with Steve Petrick on Carl’s expulsion. Exercise: week of post-production to get them ready for upload. 20 minutes walking. Industry mailing lists: hardcover vs Captain’s Log #41 (May 2010): Reviewed the Rom King Softcover. Shrike and sent it back to Petrick with comments. Reviewed the Email: Todd Boyce says he is willing to think about doing the new LDR ships and had some changes made. PFs. (We cannot pay him 1% of what movie studios pay him, and Communique #48 (10 Dec): I did all of the missing parts of he does ships for us as personal entertainment. We’re lucky to the issue, including the Frax ship and the Hydran, and gave it to have someone of his caliber.) Loren Knight about fast ships. Petrick to review. Jean’s reports and reminders. Gary Carney about Frax minis for We finally went home at 8pm. Starmada. ======Old Email: (456 remain after morning triage, 444 when I got done): Loren Knight about M81 galaxy. Mike Filsinger about FC MY DAY: 6 Dec (Sunday) 2009 tournament. Todd about PF minis. Gary Carney about old galaxy. Got to the office at 10am. Weather: 28F. Ryan’s Christmas joke. Michael Thomas about minis. Gary Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Vancleavea campi. BBS: 29 Carney about Starmada. ok. Forum: 14 ok. APOD: comet tail. Sudoku 6:30. Web crawl 3pm Thursday Mini-Meeting: Delayed one hour by completed at 1:57. Lunch: Prime rib at Big Texan (majorly Leanna’s dental appointment. I need to get moving on F&E 2010, overpriced). Starlist NR. Out box: 42. Sent to Eric: Juggernaut for and to finish the schedule announcement. Petrick is working on Starmada. Read FYEO for today. fast battleships. Leanna is doing orders, and comments that Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Loren Knight about a fast transport proposal. Will McCammon (whom I forgot to pay for the three scenarios for Selt-Thol that were in boosters and the F5W). communiques. I noticed that some other “extra data” is not yet Older Email: Daniel Kast about starmada. Mat Scull about complete and I may do that before uploading this since Eric won’t train games. Jean wants Eric to change a web page. Jean and be back until Thursday and already had three days of work Loren about the coloring book. Anthony Cutcliffe about his FC stacked up ahead of any FCSD upload. scenario that we used in Comm 48. Patrick Doyle about his Communique #48 (10 Dec): I finished Petrick’s fixes and article (I cannot open the file). Rob Simmons about battle report. sent it to the staff. Staff: Petrick CL41. Leanna mail orders. Mike off duty. Eric FC Briefing #3 (2010): If nobody noticed, I did one ship for off duty. this in Communique #48. Primary work: Leanna got my new widescreen monitor FC Booster #92: I sent the cards to the staff for checks. installed. (I finally wore out the one we bought in 1999.) I wrote a Captain’s Log #41: I got the development article from short fiction story for CL#41, had Petrick read it, and sent it to Petrick, formatted it (9 pages including SSDs), and sent it to Jean. Then I went home (at 9pm). Jean. That puts us 23.77% finished with this issue! ======Leanna finally quit doing mail orders at 9:30pm and we went home to get some rest. MY DAY: 7 Dec (Monday) 2009 ======Got to the office at 9:50am. Weather: 20F and cloud. Green day, Leanna and I came in the same car so I had to wait for her, MY DAY: 8 Dec (Tuesday) 2009 but she plans to work very late catching up on mail orders. Got to the office at 9:30. Weather: 25F and blowing snow. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Discovery channel series. BBS: Not enough to cover the grass, but the streets are slick (wet, not 36 ok. Sent to FCOL: Old Galaxy Pirate Raider, LDR CWS, icy). By noon, we had serious snow flurries, but it was melting Klingon D7A, Frax DN. Forum: 10. APOD: space station (not when it hit, despite the 25F day. I suspect that AGW has lowered astronomy). Sudoku 6:59. Web crawl completed at 10:59. Lunch: the melting point of ice. chopped steak at Logan’s. Starlist 67211. Out box: 49. Sent to Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: huge insects. BBS: 15 ok. Eric: shopping cart entries that need better pictures. Read FYEO Forum: 7 ok. APOD: Tethys. Sudoku 6:45. Web crawl completed for today. Worked with Steve Petrick on the Valdon story for at 10:20. Lunch: grilled chicken. Starlist NR. Out box: 52. Sent to CL41. Exercise: one mile at the art gallery. Industry mailing lists: Eric: sublight SSDs from Scott Johnson. Read FYEO for today. blogger review rules. Worked with Steve Petrick on CL41. Industry mailing lists: Outlaw Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Todd Cabril about press using copyrights illegally (artists and games). F&E. David D about CL35. An artist named Danijel looking for Email: Siadek brothers about Battlestations. Nick Samaras work. Patrick J Doyle settled a bet (crash the P3 into the top of about his article in CL#41. Mike West with the Borders of the Soviet cargo ship, not the side, Petrick wins). Loren Knight Madness article for CL#41. Mike Bennett about his story. Scott about the coloring book for kids. Ryan Ellenberger with a store Johnson about the sublight game. Gary Plana with a wildlife list update. Rob Simmons with a play league battle report. Jim photo. Jean’s reports and reminders. Culhane with a store list update. Marc Easterly looking for a Staff: Petrick CL41 stuff. Leanna doing mail orders. Mike game. Loren Knight about Seltorax (too many times). Celestial doing mail orders. Eric studying for finals. Games about using images. Anthony Cutcliffe with a product idea Old Email: (272 remain after morning triage, 229 when I got that was great but was based on an erroneous assumption and done): Mostly just filed and deleted stuff that should have been. so won’t work. Burt Ashman about Lyran PF minis. 2pm Tuesday Mini-Meeting: Reviewed situation, Older Email: (400 remain after doing the email that came in particularly the sales of Booster 91 compared to the cost of today, and I did do all of the email that came in today): printing Booster 92. August: 14th Scott Johnson about sublight and cadet SSDs, Primary work: I took the first step to convert the two new 17th a question answered by Petrick and a CC sent to me (put in ships in Comm 48 into FCOL cards. I did the last scenarios for CL#41), 22nd suggestion from Loren to make Squadron Box #91 the FC scenario database, however, about half of column #8 a poster (sent to CRW), 26th from Leanna about how I screwed (notes) is not done, and I’m working my way through those up the origins hotel reservations, 28th a submission from John slowly. I did a new ship for Comm-49. I edited the Patrick Doyle Sickels, article for CL#41. Petrick sent me the other six SSDs for CL#41, September 19: James D. Everett about being a Ranger, 26 so I inserted them and sent them to Jean. I read most of a story Paul Cordiero with a shopping cart photo, 27 Mike West about that somebody sent in. Went home at 7pm. CL#40 and CL#41, 28 John ?? with a mini photo, 29 Paul ======Cordiero with scenarios. October 1st Scott Johnson about sublight ships, 2nd Phil MY DAY: 9 Dec (Wednesday) 2009 Shanton with an old starletter, 16th malisalleman about Got to the office at 8:55am. Weather: 9F, clear and dry. demonhawk mini, 22nd Jean about Origins display, Jean about Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: not much. BBS: 19 and quiet. customer requests, 23 Jean tried to edit the text catalog, 28 Forum: 9 ok. APOD: Dawn of the galaxies. Sudoku 5:33. Web Siadeks about battlestations, 30 Mike West report on B92 cards. crawl completed at 10:03. Lunch: Steak at Country Barn. Starlist November 4th, the local newspaper guys, 12th Eric wanting NR. Out box: 50. Sent to Eric: FC Scenario database. Read a document to upload, 12th a Canadian game store I need to call FYEO for today. Exercise: 30 minutes at art gallery with Leanna. and confirm that they got what they wanted, 12th Michael about Email: Jean’s daily reports and reminders. Jeppe, an old minis restocks, 15th Mike Bennett about submissions. friend from Europe dropped me a line. Counting items filed and deleted, the In Box is down to 276, Staff: Petrick CL41. Leanna processing orders, accounting. and 30% reduction in a few hours of effort. Mike binding books, doing orders. Eric taking finals. Staff: Petrick CL41. Leanna on mail orders. Mike on mail Customer Request Wednesday: I didn’t do much of this orders. Eric studying for finals. since I was busy with F&E (and Jean made me promise to stop Marketing Monday: I was unable to think of anything that using things as excuses to avoid working on F&E) but I did do the just had to be done and spent the time on other things. chart of Klingon Marine officer insignia. Gary Carney has a ton of December is kind of a dead time in this industry. requests on file, so I did one (putting links to some files on the Primary work: All of the FCHA cards have now been historical downloads page). Paul Cordiero send a list of Ship exported at FCOL jpgs, and about half of them have been Cards for which only one scale had been in communique, so I resized and are ready for upload. The first of these will be picked one and put the other scale in Comm 49, then I thought, uploaded a week from next Monday. I worked on the FC since Comm 48 isn’t done yet, why not put one there as well? Scenario Database and finished everything of this round except Mike West had sent something for comm 49 so I put it there. Primary work: I got the ships from Comm-48 ready to go to d20 over to fix the mistakes. Mike W about doing the D7 over. FCOL next Monday (then had to do two of them over when Mike Staff: Petrick CL41 (finished monster article). Leanna doing West found mistakes). I finished the enhanced FC Scenario mail orders. Mike doing mail orders. Eric working on website. database and sent a PDF to Eric to upload, and did another PDF Deal Making Friday: Tried to contact Dead In Space. of just the SFB ones in SFB rule number order and sent that to Primary work: him as well. F&E-2010 (2010): I did chapter 300 (phase 1) and sent it to Captain’s Log #41 (May 2010): Mike West did the new the staff, and posted the GEDS rule. Chapter 300 was about Juggernaut Shriek missile rules so I put them into CL#41. three times as much work as 200. Communique #48 (10 Dec): I got Mike West’s report and did Captain’s Log #41 (May 2010): Petrick sent the selected his fixes so we’ll be ready to go for tomorrow. CL41 story to Jean so she can just edit the raw text. I made F&E-2010 (2010): Hounded by Jean, I finally began work on Petrick’s changes to the Command at Origins article and sent it this project after stalling for nearly two weeks. I converted to Jean. Petrick gave me the monster article, which I processed chapter 100 into Pagemaker, reformatting and making stylebook and sent to Jean. All of which pushed us past 32.5%. changes. I have yet to start on the easy part (the added cross I went home at 7:45pm. references), the hard part (CapLog Rulings), the harder part ======(core changes like auto-kill), and the tedious and endless changes (every Q&A item every posted). MY DAY: 12 Dec (Saturday) 2009 Went home at 7pm. Got to the office at 8:15am. Weather: 35F, clear and dry. ======Daily Routine: BBS: ok. Forum: 7. APOD: skyline. Sudoku 6:08. Web crawl completed at 12:40. Lunch: Pizza. Starlist MY DAY: 10 Dec (Thursday) 2009 29906. Out box: 44. Sent to Eric: Artist page stuff. Read FYEO Got to the office at 10:10am. Weather: 20F, clear and dry. I for today. Industry mailing lists: Outlaw press and a possible stayed home to help Leanna pick up the house (i.e., to protect class action suit or prosecution. my stuff from the cleaning ladies who arrive at noon to get the Email: Daniel D who isn’t getting answers from Leanna (I house ready for Jean’s visit). We found a crime scene literally on gotta look into that). Steve Jones from New Zealand who is our doorstep. Somebody left their car parked here when they returning to SFB after 20 years and trying to figure out the new took a taxi home from the bar next door. During the wee hours, edition. Todd Abril asked about PD but I sent that to Jean. the car was broken into and stolen. I called the police to make Staff: Petrick CL41. Leanna orders. Mike orders. Eric took sure they were finished before I had Eric and Mike sweep up the the day off. broken glass. 1PM Work ON Company: Reset the My Day file. Daily Routine: BBS: quiet. Forum: 8, ok. APOD: Cassiopeia 2PM Staff Meeting: Cancelled since we had one Friday. nebula. Ann Coulter: ranting about the new Mass senator who Primary work: I resized some FCOL cards to have them kept an innocent man in prison to push her own career. Web ready for Monday. crawl completed at 1pm. Lunch: pork loin at Furr’s. Starlist F&E-2010 (2010): I did the first round of conversions of the 98503. Out box: 60. Sent to Eric: communique 48. Read FYEO 400 section, and sent that to the staff. I posted a few pages to the for today. Industry mailing lists: somebody wrote an editorial that BBS. games are evil because they make you use your imagination and Captain’s Log #41 (May 2010): Loren sent his M81 pirates you can no longer tell fantasy from reality. article and I worked it over and sent him a copy. He liked the Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Last of the changes, and Petrick blessed it (after taking out the stuff about Communique reports. All email that arrived today was answered the Tholians being nice guys who had to become mean because (or put in the appropriate file) today; I’m trying to stay caught up. of the evil pirates) and I sent it to Jean. Petrick sent me the Bill Staff: Petrick CL41. Leanna getting the house cleaned. Mike Schoeller article and I put it into the issue but didn’t have time to bookbinding and mail orders. Eric sent the newsletter, uploaded edit it today. We stand at 37.78% finished with the issue. communique, built the video page, uploaded the Hydran rank I packed up and went home at 6pm. chart, took photos of the crime scene, Uploaded the CRUL for ======Rev5, added ships to the starmada page. Old Email: (229 remain after morning triage, 195 when I got MY DAY: 13 Dec (Sunday) 2009 done): I answered some old mail about the Revolutionary Edition Got to the office at 4pm. Weather: 62F and clear. I came in and Amazon Kindle, trashed some stuff that should have been for about an hour to clear out my email. long ago, and moved some stuff to Marketing Monday or Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Triceratops vs Tyrannosaurus. Customer Request Wednesday. BBS: ok. Forum: ok. APOD: Crescent Neptune. Lunch: home 4pm Thursday Mini-Meeting: Delayed to Friday. cooked roast and potatoes. Read FYEO for today. Primary work: Finished reading the igneous story; I need to Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Loren about Tholians. talk to Petrick but we might just go ahead and call it the CL#41 Cutcliffe about scenarios. story and move forward. ======Communique #48 (10 Dec): Finished and sent to Eric, who MY DAY: 14 Dec (Monday) 2009 uploaded it. Got to the office at 8:40am. Weather: 41F and cloudy. I was F&E-2010 (2010): I did the first pass (format conversion) for gone several hours helping the contractor working on the house section 200 (movement) and sent it to the F&E Staff. find the underground utilities and get the temporary fence done I was going to work later, but Leanna called and wanted me so that the cats are safe and unable to get loose. to take her to dinner, so I left at 6:15. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Tethyshadros insularis, the ======new hadrosaur from Italy. Tawa Hallae, new Triassic theropod. MY DAY: 11 Dec (Friday) 2009 BBS: ok. Sent to FCOL: Frax BCH, POL, FF; Hydran CWG. Got to the office at 8:45. Weather: 20F, clear and dry. Forum: ok. APOD: Saturn’s fascinating hexagon. Web crawl Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: missing. BBS: ok, but I had to completed at 9:40. Lunch: Arby’s. Starlist NR. Out box: 45. Sent put an end to what was never intended, people posting in both to Eric: art page stuff. Read FYEO for today. Exercise: the liberal and conservative topics. Forum: 15. APOD: craters. construction work. Web crawl completed at 10:44. Lunch: Barnaby’s. Starlist NR. Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Out box: 44. Sent to Eric: Things Jean wanted. Read FYEO for Staff: Petrick admin. Leanna mail orders. Mike mail orders. today. Exercise: 2.5 laps. Eric website work. Email: Jean’s daily reports and reminders. Jean about doing Marketing Monday: Updated the wholesaler list on the retail FAQ page. Did the “this week” blog for Jean to post. Followed up today. Industry mailing lists: Christmas wishes. with a store that asked for information. Read some marketing Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. ideas from Bob Nelson and found two that I should look into. Did Staff: Petrick C3A. Leanna & Mike orders. Eric web. another few OPL store registrations. I got the Star Fleet Alert 2pm Thursday Mini-Meeting: We reviewed the situation done and sent to Jean so it can go out tomorrow. and discussed how to post-produce the videos. Primary work: F&E-2010 (2010): I did the 500 section and Primary work: F&E-2010 (2010): Got Chapter 800 done and sent it to the staff. I plan to go eat about 7. sent to the F&E staff. I went through CL#18-CL#27 and sent ======Petrick lists of the ruling text I needed from them. I left at 5pm to get a haircut, then came back and plan to MY DAY: 15 Dec (Tuesday) 2009 work several more hours. Got to the office at 9:30am. Weather: 24F and clear. ======Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Is Tethyshadros just a juvenile of something else? BBS: ok. Forum: 5. APOD: stupid. Sudoku MY DAY: 18 Dec (Friday) 2009 8:35. Web crawl completed at 10:54. Lunch: Cheddars. Starlist Got to the office at 9:20. Weather: 45F and mostly cloudy. NR. Out box: 46. Sent to Eric: Star Fleet Alert. Read FYEO for Internet was down when we walked in, but they got it up and today. running within a minute or two. Leanna and I came together Email: Merse Kovacshazi about shipments to Hungary. (green day) but went home at lunch to check on the plumber who Robert Nijkamp about minis. Jean’s daily reports and reminders. was doing her new bathroom. Mike West about FCB92. Mike Filsinger about the FC Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Repenomamus. BBS: ok. Tournament rules. Jean, Dale, and Gary about Rimworld. Jean’s Forum: 11 ok. APOD: meteor shower. Sudoku 6:34. Web crawl daily reports and reminders. Mickie Cox about what to buy next. completed at 10:34. Lunch: Willy’s for steak. Starlist NR. Out box: Staff: Petrick CL41. Leanna orders. Mike orders. Eric web. 40. Sent to Eric: web stuff. Read FYEO for today. Exercise: two 2pm Tuesday Mini-Meeting: Reviewed orders, Jean’s laps. Industry mailing lists: Hasbro vs Atari. upcoming trip, videos, the impending arrival of Isis and Ramses Email: Abram Paradies about PD Feds. Loren Knight with a in the next few days (to avoid construction work) and end of year customer request. Hernan Ruiz about software royalties. Phil procedures. Shanton with a customer request. Jean’s reports and reminders. Primary work: Sent Star Fleet alert. Called Lion Rampant to Mike West about his private sublight page. be sure they got the alert. Primary work: F&E-2010 (Feb 2010): I got 900 done, F&E-2010 (2010): Did chapter 600 and sent it to staff. including adding two entire products to the index, and sent to the ======staff. I got the CapLog rulings files from CL22-27 from Petrick. (There were none in 28, and 29-40 are on my computer.) I did MY DAY: 16 Dec (Wednesday) 2009 the CL#22 and CL#23 rulings, well, most of them. Got to the office at 8:40. Weather: 42F and clear. This was Leanna and I went home at 6pm. the first day that Isis and Ramses came to the office (to escape ======the noise of the construction crews tearing the brick off of the south side of our house to add her bathroom). MY DAY: 19 Dec (Saturday) 2009 Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: SVP. BBS: ok. Forum: 13. Got to the office at 9:30AM. Weather: 32F with a few clouds. APOD: Comet. Sudoku 6:46. Web crawl completed at 10:39. I left the office for most of the day to help the contractor pour Lunch: Cafe Marizon. Starlist 23455. Out box: 40. Sent to Eric: concrete for Leanna’s new bathroom but came back in the artist pages. Read FYEO for today. Exercise: three laps around evening and got some work done. the block. Industry mailing lists: GAMA switching to new list Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: bad documentaries. BBS: ok. server for members. Forum: 11 ok. APOD: aurora and meteor (pretty but not a Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. nebula). Sudoku 7:14. Web crawl completed at 2:17. Lunch: ribs Staff: Petrick CL41. Leanna & Mike orders. Eric web. at Country Barn. Starlist NR. Out box: 39. Sent to Eric: sublight Customer Request Wednesday: I replaced the FC Master ships. Newsletter stuff. Read FYEO for today. Exercise: Pouring Ship Charts that I had screwed up. I replaced the Old Galaxy concrete. Industry mailing lists: French courts vs US copyrights. Pirate page that I had made a typo on so Gary Carney would Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. State Board of calm down. Jean wanted the Fleet Captain Plaque replaced engineers annual newsletter. F&E report from Stew Frazier. because of a typo. Jean had me update the update list, so I sent Staff: Petrick near death from some unknown malady. that to Eric. Leanna printing inventory restocks, orders. Mike bookbinding. Primary work: F&E-2010 (2010): Worked on 700, finished Eric off duty. round one, sent it to staff. I am having so much fun with F&E that Old Email: (219 remained after morning triage, 175 when I I won’t want to work on anything else. got done): Deleted spam. Filed family mail. Proposals sent to a Currently, it is 7pm, but I’m not sure how much longer I am special folder. Answered several. Filed a bunch of deal memos going to work. Maybe an hour or two. that should have been filed before. ======1PM Work ON Company: Reset the My Day file. 2PM Staff Meeting: Cancelled as nobody else was here. MY DAY: 17 Dec (Thursday) 2009 4pm Saturday Caplog Meeting: Cancelled, ibid. Got to the office at 8:35am. Weather: 35F and clear. Isis and Primary work: F&E-2010 (2010): I got the CL24 rulings Ramses came to work with me to avoid construction. In the late done, and the CL25 rulings. I hunted down the files from a few afternoon, we went to the open house for the Kyocera dealer’s more Caplogs. I wrote two blogs for Jean. I finally went home at new office, which was pretty spiffy. At the home construction 9pm. project, they dug the ditches and poured the foundation footings ======and the plumber started placing his drains and pipes so they can pour concrete next week. MY DAY: 20 Dec (Sunday) 2009 Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: PaleoDocs want some kind of Got to the office at 5pm. Weather: 54F and clear. review process of dinosaur TV shows to eliminate nonsense. Daily Routine: BBS: ok. Forum: ok. APOD: worthless. BBS: ok. Forum: 11 ok. APOD: fireball meteor. Sudoku 6:15. Ann Sudoku 6:08. Web crawl completed at 5:54. Lunch: Leanna Coulter notes that states with universal healthcare (Oregon, cooked stew. Starlist NR. Out box: 55. Read FYEO for today. Massachusetts) are broke and have lousy health care. Web crawl Exercise: walked the cats. Industry lists: RPG pirate PDFs. completed at 10am. Lunch: Barnaby’s. Starlist NR. Out box: 46. Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Sent to Eric: Klingon Marine enslisted ranks. Read FYEO for Primary work: That one-page snapshot I did Saturday for Captain’s Log survived Petrick and was sent to Jean. Customer Request Wednesday: Well, I did spend four I stayed a couple of hours to clean up my desk and went home. hours yesterday doing an FC MSC in Ship card order. I did a ======rank insignia page Jean wanted. I told Eric to add a link Gary Carney wanted. I asked Daniel Kast for something Gary wanted. MY DAY: 21 Dec (Monday) 2009 Primary work: F&E-2010 (2010): Before lunch, I “cleaned Got to the office at 10am. Weather: 42F and cloudy. I had to out” all of the remaining CapLog files, moving items about the stay at the house until the framing crew arrived. They should expansions to a lower part of the file so they are out of the way, have the walls up and maybe the roof on by the time I get home. reducing the effective size of the files. I did the CL#34 and CL#35 Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: science on TV. BBS: ok. Sent and CL#36 rulings. to FCOL: Hydran Ranger, LDR NCA, Lyran CL, Klingon F5W (the Game Night: Petrick was too tired. I went home at 7pm. first ships from FCHA). Forum: ok. APOD: Star Cluster R136. ======Sudoku 5:15. Web crawl completed at 11am. Lunch: choppled steak at logan’s. Starlist NR. Out box: 58. Read FYEO for today. MY DAY: 24 Dec (Thursday) 2009 Exercise: one lap. Industry mailing lists: freelancers fearing the Got to the office at 12:30pm. Weather: 23F, with winds over healthcare bill that will make their current cheap catastrophic 40mph in the flat country, 25mph in town. There is some snow on policies unavailable. the ground (bare in one spot, three inches deep a foot away). Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Driving conditions are bad enough to make Leanna stay home. Marketing Monday: Sent the annual Christmas alert. Did Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Sinornithosaurus venom. BBS: the THIS WEEK AT ADB Blog. ok. Forum: ok. APOD: spiky star. Sudoku 6:14. Ann Coulter: Primary work: F&E-2010 (February): Did the rulings for healthcare. Web crawl completed at 2pm. Lunch: BBQ at Dyers. CL#26 and CL#27. There were no rulings in CL#28. I did the Starlist NR. Out box: 42. Sent to Eric: logo for videos. Read rulings from CL#29. FYEO for today. Worked with Steve Petrick on opening package I went home sometime after 6pm. from Jean and inventorying the contents. ======Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. Eric sent for something he needs for the video (he’s doing that from home due to the MY DAY: 22 Dec (Tuesday) 2009 weather). Got to the office at 9:50. Weather: 41F and cloudy. I met with Staff: Petrick here a few hours. Leanna stayed home. Mike the contractor and framer this morning about the mistakes made stayed home. Eric stayed home. in framing the windows. Primary work: F&E-2010 (2010): I did the CL#37 rulings, Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: dinos with venom. BBS: ok. then went home at 5pm. Forum: ok. APOD: planets forming in Orion, probably the coolest ======APOD ever! Sudoku 7:46. Web crawl completed at 3:24pm. Lunch: BBQ at Dyers. Starlist NR. Out box: 37. Sent to Eric: FC- MY DAY: 25 Dec (Christ Mass) 2009 MSC-C#O. Read FYEO for today. Industry mailing lists: Got to the office at noon to pick up something on the way to healthcare. my cousin’s for dinner. Stayed a few minutes and checked email. Email: Jean’s reports and reminders. A customer request Merry Christmas to everyone, even if the leftwing kooks say that sounds like something Eric can do. we’re not supposed to say that to them or anyone else. Staff: Petrick went home, too sick to work. Leanna went ======home, too sick to work. Mike on customer service. Eric website. 2pm Tuesday Mini-Meeting: MY DAY: 26 Dec (Saturday) 2009 Primary work: I did a request for an FC MSC in card Got to the office at 10am. Weather: 24F and clear. number order; I should not have done it until Wednesday, but I Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Venom in Sinornithosaurus. thought it would only take a minute and it took four hours. BBS: ok. Forum: ok. APOD: spiral galaxy M51. Sudoku 6:05. F&E-2010 (Feb 2010): I did the rulings from CL#30 and Web crawl completed at 1:35. Lunch: Barnaby’s. Starlist NR. Out CL#31. That met the quota, but I could not stop myself and did box: 42. Read FYEO for yesterday and today. the rulings from CL#32 and CL#33. I was ready to go home at Email: A few Christmas greetings. Jean phoned in to tell 5pm, but I had to stay until the monthly cleaning crew did their about her adventures on the bus so far. thing, which took until 8pm. To avoid terminal boredom, I went Staff: Petrick was working on something, but I’m not sure through more of the CapLog ruling files (#34, #35) but just moved what. Leanna came in for an hour or two and did something. line items to the “don’t need any action” or “for the expansions” Mike off duty. Eric off duty. categories to reduce clutter. I finally got to leave at 8pm. 1PM Work ON Company: Reset the My Day file. ======2PM Staff Meeting: Nobody was interested. Primary work: F&E-2010 (2010): I did the CL#38 rulings, MY DAY: 23 Dec (Wednesday) 2009 and then the CL#39 rulings and then the CL#40 rulings. (I had to Got to the office at 9am. Weather: 32F and foggy. The get these done as I promised Jean I would work on PDFED contractor’s assistant did some work on the house addition. instead of F&E 2010 while she was here.) Yesterday, they got the plywood sheeting on, so the ‘shell’ is now ======there and the resulting 33% larger house looks pretty good. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Sinornthosaurus venom. BBS: MY DAY: 27 Dec (Jean Day) 2009 ok. Forum: ok. APOD: Sunrise? Really? Sudoku 7:40. Web crawl Got to the office at 9:40. Weather: 26F and partly cloudy. completed at 10:08. Lunch: roast beef at Furr’s. Starlist NR. Out Jean Sexton: Jean arrived (late) at 11:30. We took her to box: 41. Sent to Eric: spine cards. Read FYEO for today. Clutter lunch and on a tour of the office. She checked the BBS and her Box reduction project: Sorted out the box of my dad’s stuff to give Email and then we took her home. She conked out and slept 10 to relatives at Christmas. Worked with Steve Petrick to figure out hours. how to win at Dien Bien Phu using Predator drones. Industry Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Avatar. BBS: ok. Forum: ok. mailing lists: health care. APOD: Cat’s Eye Nebula. Web crawl completed at 9:56. Lunch: Email: Got an Email from Bruce about the missing juggy’s. turkey at Furr’s. Starlist 85204. Out box: 42. Read FYEO for The guy who makes the mold was taken to the hospital for three today. Worked with Steve Petrick on getting Jean picked up and weeks, which is why we did not have any for Christmas. Release fed. Exercise: carrying Jean’s luggage. in February will be as planned. Jean’s reports and reminders. Email: Christmas greetings from many people. Staff: Petrick backlog. Leanna last orders before the ======blackout. Mike orders. Eric working on videos at home. MY DAY: 28 Dec (Monday) 2009 Got to the office at 9:35. Weather: 27F and clear. Communique: Reviewed Hailing Frequencies Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: nothing. BBS: ok. Sent to F&E-2010 (2010): Did some cross references. FCOL: Hydran Iroquois, Lyran DW, Kzinti FFK. Forum: ok. PD Federation (2010): I finished writing the PD Federation APOD: spiral galaxy 6217. Sudoku 6:33. Web crawl completed at military file and gave it to Petrick, who took it home to read. Jean 10:02. Lunch: Logan’s. Starlist 67005. Out box: 43. Sent to Eric: sent a bunch of files. I reviewed the prelarians, tellarites, hortas, Alert to upload. Read FYEO for today. Worked with Jean on and breccon. Alert. Exercise: walking with Jean. Jean and I had separate nervous breakdowns about 9:30 Email: Alex Fulton about art. Somebody asked for an Andro and just could not work any more and went home. Order of Battle. Got another fake order from Australia. ======Staff: Petrick spent the day on one WHY question. Leanna decided to ship what mail orders she had on file despite the MY DAY: 31 Dec (Thursday) 2009 blackout. Mike shipped the orders. Eric worked on the videos. Got to the office at 10am. Weather: 26F, blowing snow, Jean’s new office by the front door makes her the defacto limited visibility, snow-packed roads, lots of wrecks. receptionist, so she got to meet the postman and UPS guy. I took Daily Routine: BBS: ok. Forum: ok. APOD: Helix nebula. Jean on a tour of Trafton and Whitney-Russell, two of the local Sudoku 5:27. Ann Coulter on airline security. Web crawl print shops we use. completed at 11am. Lunch: Barnaby’s. Starlist NR. Out box: 42. Marketing Monday: I did the THIS WEEK blog and gave it Read FYEO for today. Petrick gave Jean another pistol lesson to Jean to post. I did the Star Fleet Alert for New Year’s; Jean (she can drill the bull’s eye at 20 feet with no trouble) and let her changed it and sent it to Mike. try a few rounds from my M16 (which actually hit the target). Primary work: I did Communique #49 and gave it to Jean to Email: Jean’s reports. Some email from my cousins. proofread. I did the PDFs of the F&E 2010 Round-2 files and sent Staff: Petrick C3A. Leanna year-end accounting. Mike them out to the staff. I did some of the line items that guys have stayed home due to snow. Eric stayed home due to snow. sent in for rule 308. We reviewed the minis that Tony Thomas Primary work: Jean made me write a blog about what we did. The Pegasus is beautiful work, but won’t cast (and the fins did in 2009 and will do in 2010. are in the wrong place). The TK5 and Fed LTT are swell but as Communique #49 (10 Jan 2010): I sent this to the staff. they have to go into the same master mold with the Pegasus, PD Federation (2010): I made the changes to the military none of them are going anywhere. Darn! Jean and I did a survey section and gave it to Jean. I printed out the history section and of PD FEDs and figured out what to do first tomorrow. gave that to Jean. Jean had me read and test-format the alpha ======centauri and tellarite sections. We left the office at 5:30pm to go to a celebratory new year’s MY DAY: 29 Dec (Tuesday) 2009 eve dinner, but Jean made me take 20 pages of PDFed home Got to the office at 9:42. Weather: 31F and cloudy. Isis and with me to read on a clipboard. Ramses (terrified by the construction noise) came to the office. ======Daily Routine: BBS: ok. Forum: ok. APOD: Witch nebula. Sudoku 7:25. Web crawl completed at 10:19. Lunch: Wendy’s. Starlist NR. Out box: 45. Sent to Eric: Catalog stuff Mike needs. Read FYEO for today. Email: Loren Knight about art for PD Feds. Chad Schrieber about F&E. John Crawford about the European operations. Tony Thomas about Pegasus. Jean sent her reports. 2pm Tuesday Mini-Meeting: First time Jean attended. Primary work: At the direct orders of Jean and Leanna, five controversial topics on the BBS were marked for permanent deletion and their subjects will be banned in future. Starline 2400: Tony Thomas says he can fix the Pegasus. Communique #49 (10 Jan 2010): Jean proofed it and I made her changes, some of them more reluctantly than others. PD Federation (2010): Worked on the military chapter. F&E-2010 (2010): Did a few line items. We all left at 6pm for the Christmas Party at Country Barn where we stuffed ourselves with good Texas BBQ. Afterwards, we showed Jean that Danny Kaye movie COURT JESTER so she would understand why Petrick and I say “the flagon with the dragon” every time we get confused by the rulebooks. ======MY DAY: 30 Dec (Wednesday) 2009 Got to the office at 8:30am. Weather: 30F and clear. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Holiday greetings. BBS: ok. Forum: ok. APOD: pinwheel galaxy. Sudoku 5:46. Web crawl completed at 9:08am. Lunch: NuCastle. Starlist NR. Out box: 43. Sent to Eric: Newsletter stuff. Read FYEO for today. Worked with Steve Petrick on PD Fed military file. Exercise: two laps. Email: Chad Schrieber about the new F&E Edition. Tony Thomas about Pegasus. Jean’s reports. Customer Request Wednesday: I didn’t have a lot of time for this since Jean wants me to work more on PD Federation, but I did send some stuff to Eric for uploading, pointed out to someone who asked that we already have a new products page, and told Eric to set up a Jindarian page. I also did Gorn rank insignia for Jean. Primary work: A long cold day, much done, much left.