So I’m writing this to let you know what’s been taking most of my time.

Ever since the end of the school year, I’ve been down at the shop quite a bit. I’ve been making some necessary changes to make the company more profitable, without losing our competitive edge. I even had to do the hard part of the job, and make some personel changes. We’ve taken on some bigger jobs (one that will net us $19,000 itself), and more custom work too.

The timing of all this was good, because toward the last two weeks of the school year, I was informed that they would no longer offer face to face art with the students (good bye teaching), and most of the high school classes will be online (this is something I predicted the day we got the internet in the school thirteen years ago). They will only have four full time high school faculty next year – all the rest will be using a community member at minimum wage to babysit in the comp lab, while the students take their coursework online. The elementary, however will remain untouched, as they need the face to face teaching more (though all students need that).

Anyway, the timing of all this worked out perfect for me. Here is a link for some pictures of the shop