MY DAY: 1 Jan (Wednesday) 2014 I stayed home to rest and spent the day watching British scifi on Roku (HMS Camden Lock). I have no idea what the weather was like. I did manage to ensure that everyone ate black-eyed Peas which is required in Texas (or you’ll be cursed with bad luck all year). APOD: stupid skyline, not astronomy. Lunch: leftovers. By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, January 10, 2014 - 04:15 pm: Edit MY DAY: 2 Jan (Thursday) 2014 Got to the office at 10:45. Weather: 33F, sunny. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Hungarosaurus. BBS: 20. Forum: 4. Out box: 46. APOD: astronauts, NOT astronomy. Jigsawdoku 2:42. Ann Coulter: Duck Dynasty. Web crawl completed at 1:22. Lunch: turkey at Furr’s. Email: Overnight spam 107 plus 56 during the day. SPP work: Sick all day, tried to work on battlegroups. JES work: customer service, deleted a fake person. SVC work: Sick all day, just got email done and went to take a nap on the sofa. By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, January 10, 2014 - 04:16 pm: Edit MY DAY: 3 Jan (Friday) 2014 Got to the office at 10:10. Weather: 41F, cloudy. Daily Routine: APOD: comet Lovejoy. Lunch: BBQ at BF. Email: Overnight spam 81. SPP work: Checked his email and went home to recover from the Hideous Rotting Plague. JES work: BBS cleanup, various maintenance issues. SVC work: Very sick, I just checked my email while on a run to pick up medicine and went back home. By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, January 10, 2014 - 04:16 pm: Edit MY DAY: 4 Jan (Saturday) 2014 Got to the office at 10:20. Weather: 42F, cloudy. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Therizinosaur. BBS: 21. Forum: 1. Out box: 48. APOD: waste of time. Jigsawdoku 2:19. Web crawl completed at 1:35. Lunch: Chicken bits at Malcomb’s. Email: Overnight spam 105 SPP work: Sick, stayed home. SVC work: I did the THIS WEEK blog but otherwise I just napped and coughed. By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, January 10, 2014 - 04:16 pm: Edit MY DAY: 5 Jan (Sunday) 2014 Got to the office at 3:14. Weather: 25F, clear skies. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: auctions. BBS: 23. Forum: 1. Out box: 49. APOD: shell galaxy NGC474. Jigsawdoku 2:18. Web crawl completed at 4:28. Lunch: Leanna cooked meat and potatoes. Read FYEO for 1st. Email: Overnight spam 56 plus 7 during the day. SPP work: Came in and worked a few hours. Leanna work: Came in and worked a few hours. SVC work: Came in and worked a few hours. Jean work: Stayed home, being the only sane one of us. By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, January 10, 2014 - 04:17 pm: Edit MY DAY: 6 Jan (Monday) 2014 Got to the office at 2:30 after being sick all morning. Weather: 28F, clear blue skies. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Permian. BBS: 22. Forum: 4. Out box: 50. APOD: NASA photo, not astronomy. Jigsawdoku 2:21. Web crawl completed at 5:47. Lunch: chicken salad at Malcomb’s. Email: Overnight spam 146 plus 34 during the day. Events: Announced we are not going to Origins. SPP work: Sick, but worked on a few things. JES work: Blogs, BBS stuff, flamewar. SVC work: Did Communique 97. Joint Venture Projects: 2500: received a shipment of prototypes from Mongoose but was too sick to review them. By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, January 10, 2014 - 04:17 pm: Edit MY DAY: 7 Jan (Tuesday) 2014 Got to the office at 10:10. Weather: 33F, clear skies. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Ceratosaurus. BBS: 36. Forum: 1. Out box: 47. APOD: M7 scorpius star cluster. Jigsawdoku 2:23. Web crawl completed at 2:25. Lunch: steak & eggs at PCS. Read FYEO for 2 Jan. Email: Overnight spam 92 plus 139 during the day. SPP work: Despite being sick, worked on CL48. JES work: Communique, PHP issues, 2425 page, Gencon, Traveller. SVC work: Despite being sick I sent Comm 97 to the staff and did some work on the new 2425 page. By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, January 10, 2014 - 04:18 pm: Edit MY DAY: 8 Jan (Wednesday) 2014 Got to the office at 11am. Weather: 40F, mostly clear. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: ichthyosaur color. BBS: 17. Forum: 4. Out box: 48. APOD: sunspot. Jigsawdoku 2:03. Web crawl completed at 3:27. Lunch: pasta at Cheddar’s. Read FYEO for 3-4-5 Jan. Email: Overnight spam 88 plus 94 during the day. Email left in in-box at end of the day: 699. Customer Request Wednesday: Too sick to do it. SPP work: sick, but did a few things. JES work: getting sick, did a few things. SVC work: Sick, but managed to write the year-ahead blog and do some minor things. Did first look at two new 2400s and one new 2500. By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, January 10, 2014 - 04:18 pm: Edit MY DAY: 9 Jan (Thursday) 2014 Got up early and very sick, but had skin cancer surgery scheduled and went anyway. Turned out to be a bigger (if still minor) deal than expected but I was so bad afterwards that I went home to bed and never made it to my desk. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: tyrannosaurus. APOD: tadpole nebula IC410. Ann Coulter: immigration. SPP work: CL48 battlegroups. JES work: Blog, uploaded Romulan Armada, did her parts of HF, worked on smartphone background project, did Talkshoe even though she should have been in bed with plague. By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, January 13, 2014 - 05:34 pm: Edit MY DAY: 10 Jan (Friday) 2014 Got to the office at 10:25. Weather: 47F, clear skies. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Goniopholidid. BBS: 19. Forum: 4. Out box: 55. APOD: Helix nebula. Jigsawdoku 2:22. Web crawl completed at 2:15. Lunch: BBQ at BF. Read FYEO for 6 Jan. Industry mailing lists: Patreon. Starlist 20762. Email: two days spam 376 plus 103 during the day. SPP work: CL48 battlegroups. JES work: Proofed HF, publicized HF/Comm, publicized Romulan Armada, Blogs, Starlist issues, bounced mail issues. SVC work: reviewed prototypes and CGIs for 2500s. Posted nine days of MY DAY. Joint Venture Projects: 2500: Tholian TK5 and DN approved to go into a master mold (but not enough ships to do one); Klingon B10 sent back with multiple errors. TPD: Jean was pushing Mike W to get fixes sent back in. ACTASF: Tony Thomas reorganizing rulebook. By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, January 13, 2014 - 05:34 pm: Edit MY DAY: 11 Jan (Saturday) 2014 Got to the office at 10:30. Weather: 47F, clear skies. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Utahraptor pack. BBS: 28. Forum: 6. Out box: 48. APOD: Seagull Nebula. Jigsawdoku 2:19. Web crawl completed at 1:07. Lunch: pork steak at Tx Roadhouse. Read FYEO for today. Get your allowance. Email: Overnight spam 47 plus 27 during the day. SPP work: JES work: SVC work: I did the THIS WEEK blog, but mostly rested. By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, January 13, 2014 - 05:35 pm: Edit MY DAY: 12 Jan (Sunday) 2014 Got to the office at 12:50. Weather: 68F, cloudy, windy. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Spanish dinos. BBS: 26. Forum: 4. Out box: 48. APOD: scale of the universe. Jigsawdoku 2:13. Web crawl completed at 2pm. Lunch: enchiladas at LFG. Exercise: took Ramses on patrol. Email: Overnight spam 74. SPP work: Came by to check email. LMC work: Worked four hours on orders. JES work: Customer support from home. SVC work: Came in to check email and keep Leanna company. By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, January 13, 2014 - 05:35 pm: Edit MY DAY: 13 Jan (Monday) 2014 Got to the office at 9:51. Weather: 41F, some clouds. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: poposaurus. BBS: 24. Forum: 2. Out box: 48. APOD: movie from 1902. Jigsawdoku 2:03. Web crawl completed at 10:11. Lunch: BBQ at Rub Shack; Jean never did get a properly cooked ribeye and was really upset. Read FYEO for 12+13 Jan. Email: Overnight spam 73 plus 103 during the day. Events: SVC got a haircut. SVC and SPP got flu shots. Markie got WAY too many puppy treats. SPP work: CL48 battlegroups. JES work: Customer service, Traveller, website. SVC work: Started final attack on CL#48. By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, January 18, 2014 - 06:10 pm: Edit MY DAY: 14 Jan (Tuesday) 2014 Got to the office at 12 noon. Weather: 53F, partly cloudy. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: bone pathology. BBS: 24. Forum: 2. Out box: 48. APOD: stupid skyline. Jigsawdoku 2:21. Web crawl completed at 12:48. Lunch: steak & eggs at PCS. Email: Overnight spam 129. SPP work: CL48 battlegroups. JES work: Proofreading Fed MSSB, customer support, deleting fake people from BBS and Forum. SVC work: Leanna and I did not feel well, went home early. By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, January 18, 2014 - 06:11 pm: Edit MY DAY: 15 Jan (Wednesday) 2014 Got to the office at 9:45am. Weather: 36F, a few clouds. Daily Routine: Dinosaur list: Marine reptiles. BBS: 23. Forum: 2. Out box: 49. APOD: Orion nebula. Jigsawdoku 2:01. Web crawl completed at 10:53. Lunch: CFS at Calico. Read FYEO for 14+15. Exercise: walked around the block. Email: Overnight spam 170 plus 99 during the day. Email left in in-box at end of the day: 698. SPP work: CL48 battlegroups & campaign update. JES work: Proofread FMSSB, customer service, BBS.