Back in the office after the holiday break, straight into preparation for issuing the first batch of 2012-13 subscription invoices. The initial data check revealed a couple of dozen subscribers are overdue, and that means issuing them with warning reminders to try and collec the backlog before sending out the new one. Even so, by the end of Friday afternoon a hundred invoices had been done, some mailed out, others waiting for cross checks to be done. No matter how good you think your working dataset is, there are always errors to be tracked down, because the information going into it changes in some small way quite frequently. It's anything but foolproof, but for the most part it serves our purposes for the time being.
This afternoon we had a useful meeting with our equipment suppliers' technical team, to iron out problems and start thinking about what network developments might be feasible and affordable as even better new technologies come into the market. It's part of our long term plan to extend services down the Bay, up into Cathays and along Cowbridge Road, but we can't promote this to potential users until we can be certain that we can offer the quality of service they expect. Radio reception, like mobile phone reception, might generally be good in an area, but certain kinds of buildings create reception backspots. Indoors is always trickier than outdoors, as we know to our annoyance at home - and our house is in line of sight to the BT relay mast in the city centre a mile away, if you go up to the attic bedroom.
Useful though the meeting was, it put my production schedule behind, and it was gone seven by the time I left the office, rather disappointed with myself that I'd been unable to make it to Mass today. Never mind, I''ll be celebrating at St German's tomorrow and on Sunday morning when the day of the Three Kings will be kept with rather more incense than gold or myrrh.
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