My, My, How Time Flies!

Well, here we are again, another week and something since the last news post. It’s my fault…but life has again been quite busy. I will try to be better about posting more here as it’s necessary.

Seed Sales and Such

I’ve finally managed to deliver all of the hardware and basic software necessary for the Enestvedt Seeds operation to be computerized. This project took on the order of a month to complete, and so far has been relatively well-received. Keep in mind that they’ve been doing business in the office completely un-digital for the last 103 years (no kidding), so change is interesting. But things are going well, they have a very nice small network and print system, and will soon have a much less paper-oriented world.

While the hardware and such is now complete, it leaves the future releases of their database application to come. Currently I’ve been fighting (in my spare time) to develop an order entry/processing system to enhance the first release of their application which centers around customer contacts and product management. The goal of this next release is to have a basic order system in place. Future releases will include bugfixes and enhancements to exisiting features as well as payment processing and delivery adjustments (or inventory modification). It’s a pretty large system and should promise to be cool in the end.

Work As Usual

As is normal, the old Salt Mine has been calling my name…which is good for the pocketbook but not necessarily for free time. Between work and the stuff above, I’ve been kept busy enough to not have much time for focusing on the production below.

Gaslight Girl

I have had a little time to work on the show, although not a whole lot (or as much as I’d like to say). I have managed to submit royalty applications and will hopefully tomorrow morning order the scripts (or at least the first batch) as necessary for production. One cool thing that I have done is taken the stock RCW Theatre Groundplan that I drew up (in a CAD-like piece of software) a few years ago and created a set design page (essentially a stock page on which I can draw pictures of scenery, etc.). Now, given my existing perspective grid drawing (which I used in a theatre set design class several years ago), this is pretty much (and more or less) completely to scale (not only in perspective, but also in size (from accurate measurements from the existing groundplan). I have a good idea in my head what the scenes will look like, but would like to have more ‘professional’ looking items available for production display.

Aside from this stuff, not much else has changed…and (like I’ve said many times before) I hope to have more time to post new happenings here…as they happen.

This post was upgraded to the MZ Online Blog on 8/25/07