Phone call with Alan. We went over a bunch of topics. We started out talking about mins and maxes (inventory controls). We then moved into a number of other topics. Here are some quick thoughts:

- Life, motivation, and feeling appreciated.

- Upcoming Adobe ColdFusion Summit - Coding conference coming up in the end of September and first of October

- Talking about percentage ownership of adilas and what are goals are

- I've got a new project coming up for the Bear 100 (new CSV uploads and exports). As a fun throwback... Alan and a guy by the name of Nick helped me the first year we did the Bear 100 code for helping to track their runners and such. That was back in 2015. Crazy!

- The value of a buddy to help you get through the mud and the muck. Sometimes changing the focus from the task at hand to helping out a buddy or having a buddy along helps you get through the rough stuff.

- Alan was saying that he feels like we are developing a "Frankenstein type application". Our plan is to make a whole cohesive application but we tend to do sprints, change out an arm or a leg, and then the rest of the application stays as is - Just for fun, imagine an arm made out of metal, a leg out of wood, etc. Sort of this mismatched or hobbled together end product. We have good intentions. We get hamstrung by fires, funding, and talent. It's a constant battle. What you end up with is - a Frankenstein type application. Kinda funny and kinda sad. It is what it is.

- It would really be nice if we could onboard or help people get going easier. That is one of Alan's goals, going forward. It may take a minute to get there, but it is important and hopefully in the near future (next couple of years or sooner).

- We spent some time talking about the cost of chasing clients and client acquisition costs. That scope or value has gone up for us in the past few months. We have to be careful there. It, meaning costs, can get out of control pretty quickly.

- Alan would like to build some standard templates to help people upload things - items, part categories, customers, vendors, expense types, employees, etc. That would help with the onboarding process and put the power more in the users hands vs waiting on us and/or us holding their hands to do actions like that.

- We are going to touch base next week and see where things are at. That will be good for both of us.