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Busy day. Jon finally beat AT&T into submission and we have our T1 line up and almost running. Shawn was here so Jon could bring him up to speed as our new admin for the web site, forum, MySpace, Facebook, etc . . . Carri is on full time this week as the new personal assistant/graphics person. So we had a full staff in house today. To cap it we invited Charles for lunch, because he’s friends with both Shawn and Carri, as well as us. Charles also told me that several of you had assumed that he was going to be the new admin, but he said ages ago that he wasn’t temperamentally suited to the job. I think both Carri and Jon said something simular which is why Shawn got tapped. It was a fun lunch, but Jon got called away before we’d finished for phone calls about the T1, and while we were all still eating Carri took a call from my editor. Came back and told me I had thirty minutes until next call, so we finished eating and went back to work. It was a day of phone calls and decisions and some progress made on the new Merry book, but most of the day went for other business. I’m hoping that from this point on the business will be more invisible for me and leave me free to do the work that can’t be delegated to anyone else namely the writing. Though tomorrow I’ll be going over the lettering for the next issue of the comic. I’ve got one phone call to my publicist to finalize dates for SKIN TRADE events, but I’m hoping other than lettering that I can actually write more. Though there is that pesky appointment I have tomorrow.

I wrote in the blog awhile back that I needed that clipboard assistant, well I’ve got one now. Having everyone here today and watching everyone work so well together was nice. I like harmony when I can get it, but my childhood taught me that if you need confrontation to fix a problem that’s okay, too.