From: jimh@pacdata.uucp (Jim Harkins)
Subject: Re: What's up with Suicide Squid t-shirts ?
Organization: Pacific Data Products
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:14:14 GMT

I got this last monday, it explains the situation.  I myself suspect tyg is
wishing he'd never started this.

jim

From uunet!leafusa!valhalla.HQ.Ileaf.COM!tyg Mon Nov 16 06:46:08 1992
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 21:01:07 EST
From: uunet!valhalla.HQ.Ileaf.COM!tyg (Tom Galloway)
Subject: Suicide Squid shirts progress report
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This is being sent to everyone who has ordered a Suicide Squid t-shirt, and is
an update on the progress of making the shirts.

As you know, the shirt production itself got passed over to me last month
when Eddie was unable to do the shirts. At the time, I expected to be able
to get the shirts out quickly.

The problem is, unlike Eddie, I'm not actually making the shirts myself.
Rather, I have to locate a shirt maker, order shirts, approve color
separations, etc. This means that I can't do the work on Sunday, in the
evening, etc. Now, here's where we get into the problems.

What I'm doing at work these days involves teaching courses. There are two
aspects of this which directly affect my ability to get Squid shirts made.
First, when I'm teaching, I have to be in the office from 9-12 and 1-5. Thus,
weekdays are pretty much ruled out for getting any actual work done on
visiting print shops and the like when I'm teaching, as I have no flexibility
in when I'm in the office. This has also become a factor as I'm on a major
deadline for developing a course for a new product. The second factor is that
I don't do all my teaching here. If I'm out of town, clearly I can't get
anything done on the shirts.

Originally, I'd planned to get a fair amount of work done on the shirts
the week of November 2nd, as I wasn't teaching and had some flexibility.
Unfortunately, Tuesday morning of that week I was told that an uncle had
died, and I had to make it down to North Carolina for the funeral and such.
This had me out of town through Saturday night. While there, I (and my sister,
mother, brother-in-law, and stepfather, at various times) all came down
with a virus, which left me a bit weak for the first part of this week.
The kicker was that I was teaching this week, and trying to make up for
lost time on the new course. Yeah, I know how this may sound (relative
died, virus), but at least I don't have a pet to claim that it ate the
artwork :-).

OK, now we hit the new problem. I'm teaching this week, see above. Then,
as you may have noted from my recent post on r.a.c.m., I'll be in London
for a week, followed by Toronto for a week. I'll then be back here from
the 7th through the 10th of December, then off to London for another week.
I'll be here for the 21st and 22nd, then visiting family in NC for the 
23rd through 27th. The London courses were just scheduled this week.

Clearly, this throws the Squid shirt schedule into chaos. If I'm lucky,
I'll be able to get shirts done and mailed out on the 22nd of December,
but a time around the last week of December or the second week (scheduled
to be out of town the first week of January) of January is more likely,
given the number of shirts which'd need to be printed, and that I don't
want to start the shirt printing until the 7th at the earliest, so that
I won't be out of town during the whole printing process.

I apologize about this, but my work and out of town schedule have,
unexpectedly, rendered it almost impossible for me to get work done on the
shirts during hours that I could actually go see shirt makers. As those
of you who have first run shirts can attest, there's some fine separation
work done on this design, so I need to find a good shirt maker.

As always, if anyone wishes to cancel their order and receive a refund
of their money, I'll get it out to you as soon as I see the email (i.e.
if you send me email the day I leave for London, it'll be a couple of
weeks before I'll see it and can reply). I apologize for the further delay,
and the only good thing is that once this is over with, any future runs
will proceed *much* quicker as I'll already have separations and a printer.

Once again, my apologizes for the delay.
tyg   tyg@hq.ileaf.com

-- 
So many women, so little charisma.
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Jim Harkins                         [ucsd|uunet]!pacdata!jim
Pacific Data Products               jim@pacdata.com
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