Productive and decisive Byte Shop board meeting as Comart goes public on Cromemco and then home to diffuse a family quarrel as conflict grows in the Philippines
A sunny but cool day with temperatures kept similar to yesterday by a cool breeze. Barometer more or less unchanged overall. A late morning with preparations and breakfast in haste for the office. First to review the mail, liaise with June over the applicants for the personnel assistant and junior secretary vacancies and then to chair a Byte Shop Board meeting from 10am to 2.30pm. Good news of a far better performance than budgeted for July with over £20K net profit in the balance sheet against a loss forecast.
A long slog, however, from branch to branch assessing the financial performance and reviewing the personnel issues to be resolved. We end with agreeing Peter’s election to all branch boards to make our company structure and letterheads more straightforward. Comart today went public on an announcement to discontinue Cromemco representation which, in time will simplify our product coverage. Already personnel struggle with the variety of products that we deal with. Tonight I have to defuse a family quarrel where Diana, Daniel and Debbie all seem to be getting into a state over arrangements for our next boating holiday. Daniel is bored and Diana is busy, a good recipe for conflict. At last they settle. The boat batteries are well charged which fact is as well because I broke the battery charger this evening. The news, still, of Phillipino conflicts, public concern over molestations, and newspapers running foul of the regulating bodies.