Eric was checking in on connections to the development server. Pointed him to Wayne and maybe even making a new database user for his special database updates for the sales tax projects.

Danny and I were talking about sales angles. Things keep changing and we need to keep up and keep changing in order to survive. We talked about the book "Who Moved My Cheese". I recommended it to him for a good read. We then talked about small little steps and if people knew what we really do, what would that change? Anyways, moving towards that angle.

Once everybody else left the meeting, it was just John and I. He went ahead and gave me an update on what he was working on. We went over some progress on the redo/facelift for the discount engine. His GUI (graphical user interface) is looking good - modern terms just use the name UI for user interface, but they mean the same thing. We talked about funding and changes that are coming down the pipeline.

John has a diverse skill set. He works on physical computers, networking, web development, secure software, frontend graphics (UI and UX), as well as servers. Great mix.

We also got into a discussion on budgets and the need for doing and keeping a budget. We talked about increased costs on the server and server support side of things. That cost needs to be factored into the mix. We also talked about maybe dropping the adilas phones stuff. There is quite a bit of maintenance that is going to be needed there both now and in the future. The last topic of the day was dealing with year-end documents, forms, and things for payroll for the upcoming year. That too is a never-ending process.