Marching Through the Week

We had our weekly meeting about the website yesterday between 11 AM and 12:30. It reminded me of the many meetings I attended over the years I worked. It was mostly a waste of time in my mind. There were 6 staff members plus Bill in attendance and the majority of the meeting was spent doing an exercise in figuring out who our customer was. Everybody had to write down suggestions, one each on a post-it, and the moderator would place the post-its on a board and we all would discuss and prioritize the responses. Sheesh! This is part of the project to redesign the website. There was one major step forward though. It was decided that the original author of the website, Harv, would be responsible for implementing changes to the old website and I would be used to help design the new, replacement website. That was a relief. There was no way that, with 60+ pages of the old website written in strange software, I could maintain the site. I know it sounds complicated. The fact is, I didn't think I was signing on to do any of this "corporate" work. The Lodge at Happy Jack also had to redesign it's website and they hired a web developer to do the work - that's the way it should be. It was more fun when I was taking pictures of the groups in the campground and putting together collages for them to take home.

It was another "look-for-things-to-do" day for Josie. It is really tough to stay busy when there are only one or two people coming into the store every day, and no customers checking in. We know it is going to get busy again soon. There are some groups scheduled to come in during March and that should help. There are 3 more days left in our work week and then we can play again. We're certainly looking forward to that time again. We are really getting a good taste of how different jobs can be on this adventure. It is a great learning experience for us and even though it may sound like we aren't enjoying the experience - we truly are and still wish we could have started years ago. There is nothing better than the freedom to go where we want, when we want. The wonderful sights we see and the fun things we do in our free time make it worth the hours we spend working. Til tomorrow...