WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17, 2008

10:15 -- arrive, restart computer, mason comes over to see if i have a dieline for a 10x13" envelope. joel comes over to go over corrections on the officemax pages and discuss headlines.

10:40 -- send mason the dieline, read emails (4). continue working on comps for shelly's signage.

11 -- ask guy to forward the path to the common folder for amber. finish sign comps, make PDFs.

11:40 -- write email to shelly asking her to pick one of the comps or provide feedback.

11:45 -- sent email.

11:50 -- checked calendar, left for lunch.

12:55 -- back from lunch. read 4 emails, wrote reply to debi about how much more time i will need to finish up the promo- and emailbuilders (a few hours).

1 -- sent reply. copied guy's response to a reply to amber.

1:05 -- sent reply. start reply to shelly dates about the conference booklet.

1:10 -- sent reply to shelly, telling her not to expect to see the program booklet this week but that i am focusing more on getting her signs done by friday. starting officemax correx.

1:15 -- feedback email from shelly arrives, she is worried about keeping the whole project on schedule and esp about getting me the final agenda file. i reply that we are still on track, and i offer solutions on one of the sign comps.

1:20 -- reply sent. she replies instantly that it all sounds good. amber still can't get on common and i reply with a couple variations of file paths.

1:25 -- officemax correx on the index page and nav bar.

2:05 -- finish index page, email joel to proof it. start solid ink page.

2:15 -- joel is in a meeting so i go to marci to ask about using a TCO calculator that i cannot find online. she says nevermind, we'll use the cost calculator we had in before.

2:25 -- joel still can't get into common. i tell him to take care of it, then tell him (in person) that i will send a zip with both the index and solid ink pages to him and marci when i finish the corrections. back to solid ink page.

2:50 -- melinda from premier calls, they can't do the 9-foot banners. i tell her to send over the estimate for the rest of the signage and shipping.

2:55 -- it arrives and i compare hers and geoff's. premier would charge $1554, imagemedia would charge $1464 -- both excluding the 9+footer banners and shipping. ($3286 for everything from imagemedia.) add it all up and write to geoff to see if they can split up the shipping to save (UPS for the smaller ones and truck the big ones).

3:20 -- sent email to geoff. amber comes by to tell me she still can't get into common to see the builders. i offer to upload to the FTP site, but she's blocked from that too. she decides to ask debi if she knows anything about it.

3:30 -- i add up the estimates and wait to hear from geoff. he will need the files for the big banners on friday. start email to shelly about the estimates.

3:50 -- send email, asking for advice as to how to proceed and get the PO set up. debi comes by and asks me to print out all the builders for amber to proof.

3:55 -- amber writes to ask me to print everything out and send a zip of the EMBs, which i do. i start printing all the PBs.

4:30 -- done printing and collating. i walk them over to amber and also talk to marci about the legal dept looking over the text of our officemax pages.

4:35 -- back to solid ink officemax page. finish corrections and zip.

5 -- send zip to debi, marci and joel. realize i missed some of the corrections on the solid ink page. back to work on that one.

6:30 -- zipped and sent new zip file and explanation to debi, marci and joel. now starting corrections to EMBs for amber.

6:55 -- sent corrected EMB files to amber. starting PBs for amber, while also collecting all source files for hand-off to wrinkledog (promobuilder vendor).

7:30 -- corrected PBs sent to amber. just collecting files now.

8 -- break.

9 -- finish collecting and zipping.

10:05 -- set upload going for promobuilders. start 9-foot "thank you sponsors" banner for conference.

11:40 -- 1st draft completed, made PDF, start email to shelly asking for feedback and for vector logos for omtool, visioneer and NSI (sponsors).

11:45 -- email sent. starting on remaining officemax pages.

3:35am -- email sent with attached OM sitelet except 3 banners yet to be finished. quitting time.