Sandra Ramey will be coming over tonight to lead a Pampered Chef party that we will host at our house. Our neighbors across the street, Gina (the mother of Hannah, Jacob, and Halley) along with Alexa who owns a couple local rental stores, Martha and her mother Mina, and Lorena will all attend. They have such a great time together and Pampered Chef really does have some cool stuff. Christian and I are going to hang out in the bonus room and play FreeCiv on our little two computer network if we can figure out how to get the computers to talk to each other.
Donna Floyd’s mother Selma Sterling died a couple of days ago, so I called Al and Michele (granddaughter) Rizos and Ron and Donna. We had a great talk on the phone. Donna has been a real pillar in dealing with her mother and in speaking with Donna, it sounds like Ron was a super help, too. I hope this frees Ron and Donna up enough that they can come up and visit us now. It would have been great to have them with us this year at the ski trip.
Quality Corners just keeps on getting orders. We are going to double our volume again in May over March. We doubled in March over January, too. I spoke with our CNC router supplier, Digital Cybermation in Pittsburgh again this morning. It looks like they are still moving along. They might be able to ship us a machine by early next week. They will send us a photo of the machine in the next couple of days. I had a brief talk with a guy there named Kieth who had some ideas about how we should make the machine. He had some reservations about using a ball screw with such small ball bearings as opposed to an Acme screw. He believes there is some difficulty in keeping sawdust out of the ball screw. It is something we will have to discuss if we get to the point where we have to buy multiple machines we expect to run two or three shifts per day. He recommended a multiple spindle machine would increase throughput and rigidity. He might be right. We will have to see how this first machine works.