It was just Steve and I on the morning meeting for the first 20 or so minutes. We were talking about getting people started and getting things going and helping them to get up and running. Here are a few other random notes from our meeting.

- At some point, we would like to circle back around and get back to the vendor logs or payee/vendor logs project. Basically, this would be similar to the customer logs but for both vendors and employees (users). Steve started this project but it got put on the shelf as other things came up. We need to circle back around, when possible.

- On the chooser page, what if we allowed every possible page. That could be really cool. This is where a user gets to choose what they want to use for their default homepage.

- Steve was asking about settings and how we wanted to organize things. I told him that we have at least four known levels for settings that we know of, right now. They are: corp-wide settings (at the world or corporation level), group level settings (any of the 12 main player groups or sections that we have a homepage for that section), page level settings (currently using the slide out drawer on the right of the snow owl themed pages to show page level settings), and user settings or personal settings. At some future point, we may want to build out a master settings page that showed where everything is and/or is located. We have things spread all around right now. This may be a project for fracture - future project.

- The whole thing of adilas seems to be a pyramid or stacked layered application. There are tons of different levels that build on top of each other.

- The magic seems to come from progress and ideas. We do something, someone else sees it, adds to it, requests something, we build it out and/or add to it, and it starts all over again. Like a giant snowball or idea farm.

- One of the huge foundations seems to be settings and permissions. We are also seeing that these two key foundational pieces tend to split, fracture, or break into subs. Almost an infinite level of control and customization. Very interesting.

- Sean and John popped in and gave us some updates and reports. Dustin and Kelly also joined for a little bit. Their general vibe or message was - that people need help (generally) and if we can help, we are able to slide into place. It could be data entry, tools, functionality, systems, normalizing data, sales tax, inventory management and controls, financials, etc.

- My observation from today's meeting - it seems like all of the team is playing well together and helping to get things done. No way, one person could get all of this stuff done and handled, as it is going along and happening. I'm super grateful!

- John was showing us an update on the chooser page to help users select, view, and setup their default homepages. He is making good progress there. More good changes coming in the look and feel department. Good stuff!

Emails, paying bills, updating credit card on file info, recording notes, and pushed up some code for Dustin. Random little projects.

We have been using an email service for years and years. We are starting to outgrow that service and looking at ideas for what is next. These are just some ideas that I had written down on a post-it note but wanted to make sure and put them in digital form.

- Steve said to call and see what the provider of the service says as far as upgrades, ideas, and what not.

- We could always roll things back (we've done this as a temporary band-aid). We are currently using an older shared server to service the internal and API socket connections for the email service. It is called adilasuniveristy.biz. We wanted to move the code to a server that we have deeper access to (dedicated server vs a shared server). We tried moving it to the adilascontent.biz server but couldn't get it to work with all of the emails. It would work fine for adilas.biz email addresses but not for gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc.

- We could check the certs on the content server

- Get Wayne's help

- Do a whole new rebuild, from the ground up

- Check whitelists and blacklists

- Include better error handling and record errors in log files and/or in the database

Prep for a meeting with my dad and his friend Harry. I made a small list on a post-it note for some ideas that I wanted to go over with them. Here are a few of the ideas and notes:

- Go over the elevator pitch for adilas

- Playing the game of add-on as a business model

- Finding pain points and coming up with solutions

- History of where we came from and how things developed over time - it's part of our story

- Demo login and letting them get in and start playing around

- MVP - minimal viable product, plan, person, presentation

- Graphics and world building concepts

- General rules and setup - what's the flow process

- Operations and accounting - horse and the cart - operations has to lead (it's the horse) and accounting follows (the cart)

- Permissions and settings - configuration

- Going over flow and processes

- Systems and relationships

- Simulating reality or simulating the real world - what really happens and why?

- Non-linear system - concept of the data assembly line

- Adilas quick search and standard navigation

- Our current goal - fill in the gaps

- Help files and videos

- Reach out and ask for help - use the whole team

Went into Smithfield to meet with my dad and Harry. We met for a couple of hours. They wanted a small overview. I had scribbled some ideas on a post-it note. We got through a few of the pieces. We recorded it, but halfway through, my laptop shut down and needed to be plugged in. That screwed up the video. Anyways, a good little meeting. We are going to meet again next week in order to keep pushing forward.