MONDAY, SEPT. 29, 2008

10 -- arrive, spread the news about seeing the max train in Wilsonville!!

10:05 -- read emails (4 -- since i had replied to debi's emails about Lenore's TPRs over the weekend). Mark Shepard needed action taken to ensure Retrospect backup. i try to figure out what he needs.

10:25 -- remember to send Lenore the TPR sheets. back to setting up the backup.

10:50 -- finished DHCP creation form per Mark's instructions. wrote an email of thanks to Mark for all the instruction he set up for completing the intimidating EDS form and asked him to bring me a PC laptop this week so i can delete attachments in entourage.

10:55 -- Reading up on the OfficeMax sitelet update to prepare for 11am meeting.

11 -- meeting with Marci, Debi and Joel. Debi not talking to me? i promise to do the nav bars and nav boxes today and the 2 new pages and re-do of the index page by friday, 10/10. Marci will get us a definitive list of OfficeMax's offerings and warn Channel Intelligence about the supplies lookup functionality they will be doing. Joel asks for marketing direction for the animated headers and receives cajoling from Debi ("buy supplies! duh!") and direction from Marci.

11:35 -- start on Shelly's fixes for the partner program. making a plain "make it happen" letter-size sheet for her to print and put into clear folders.

12 -- sent PDF of the slip sheet. back to her marked-up PDF.

12:05 -- shelly replies immediately with thanks and asking to add a "passport" to the project. she has files so i say that sounds fine to me if i can do it tomorrow. send that email, forward to debi with explanation.

12:15 -- send email to debi. lenore's TPRs arrive with explanation, i acknowledge.

12:20 -- marci emails me asking how to open the zip files i sent. i try to figure out what her carrie woods is doing and why they can't see the images.

12:25 -- shelly sends a PDF of the passport. i look it over. it's enormous and there's no way i can do that by thursday unless debi can clear my week. i write out this reply and CC debi.

12:35 -- sent reply. forward PDF to debi. write down here all that transpired the past 20 minutes.

12:40 -- back to figuring out marci's problem. no, shelly replies and wants to take me up on my letter-size folded passport idea. i write to debi and ask if i should agree to it or not.

12:45 -- back to marci. downloaded the zip from her email, unstuffed and all the pages work fine on my computer. write reply about extracting files from zips.

12:50 -- reply sent. lunch.

1:05 -- back to shelly's program.

1:10 -- debi comes over and will be telling shelly we can't do the passport this week. back to program.

1:25 -- go to cafeteria for staff meeting.

2:10 -- back to desk, back to program.

3:25 -- finished all of shelly's, debi's and bonnie's edits, make booklet PDF, print for debi.

3:30 -- write email to shelly and debi, send for approval. starting on officemax nav bars. re-considering the order of the page links.

3:40 -- consulted with joel. we set a new order by topic.

3:50 -- starting layout. made new nav box graphics, rebuilt tables and re-did all the links. created placeholder page templates. QA'd all 8 pages.

6 -- zipped it all. uploaded to xean FTP site.

6:05 -- start email to all stakeholders about the new files available.

6:20 -- sent email explanation and FTP URL to joel, debi and marci. marci is out till wednesday. check calendar and agenda for tomorrow morning's worldwide marketing meeting. download the rest of lenore's purchased images for the gov calendars.

6:35 -- start email to lenore about one of the images being "unavailable" so she can talk to getty about it.

6:45 -- sent email. start emails to premier press and bridgetown requesting an estimate for printing these calendars.

7:05 -- emails sent. quitting for today.