Friday, October 2, 2009

2009 September: Bates

Orianna has been very frustrated this month. She has been trying to talk a lot, but she really only knows a few words, and she gets really mad that we don't understand what she is saying. But, hopefully this will lead to her being able to talk faster- so we will just have a short period of frustration rather than a long period of ambiguous toddler-speak.
She has a small tricycle that she likes to ride around the house, and when she isn't on that she is either jogging (not quite running yet) or dancing. Her *favorite* past time is to dance, especially if she can try to mimic a dancer on TV. Luckily BYU-TV shows lots of dance shows- so she is very pleased with our TV programming.

Work has been busy as ever, especially this month. Last year we started a conference for customers and prospective customers. About 60 people came. This year we did it again and 163 customers came. It was fun though. I had a pretty intense planning session with one of our prospective customers. It took about an hour for us to plan out this complex workflow that would do exactly what they needed. I was worried that they would hate it (because it's very complex), but at the end he said, "Actually- this is all pretty easy. I'm impressed." Phew! What a relief on my part :)
We are trying to wrap up this year's product by the end of November, so we are in frantic mode right now as management tries to squeeze in as many enhancements as they can before we only work on bugs/stabilization.

Well, that's about it for this month. Hopefully next month will have more (as we are leaving for Idaho today for conference weekend).
Cheers,
The Bates Family

1 comment:

Stewart and Becky said...

Congratulations on growing your business. It must feel good to know that word of your product is spreading, and that you are growing in a time when many people are just trying to stay afloat.