I put the brakes on other business entirely and spent the past two weeks going through a very detailed and comprehensive production run for cover art and the gold labels that go on each album cover. I got everyone covered on these items for our catch up run through album TP-008 and I am currently working on TP-009 cover art.
All of this material was sent overnight on Thursday to Michael, who with Paul has been supervising tape production for the same catch up orders and who scheduled all of Friday and Saturday to work on getting this artwork put together with tapes to cover as many catch up orders as possible before Xmas. Unfortunately the snowstorm here seems to have created a snafu and the artwork did not arrive at the studio yet. Tracking is not helping to sort out what's up. In spite of seeing the UPS guy sign for and pick up the box on Thursday the package has not even been logged as picked by the driver up yet. I suspect (actually I fervently hope, as it was a huge amount of work!) that the local UPS hub is just bogged down and that the package will show up Monday.
The snow and ice is a mess here, to the point that UPS wouldn't even come to our house on Friday to pick up a second package of artwork. We have about 6-8 inches of powder over about inch of ice right now with no sign of a letup. Tech Shawn is snowed in at his place with a couple of amp kits he took home with him to build while he's waiting for the ice to melt. Dunno if you guys saw it on the national news but across the water in Seattle a couple of school buses slid down a steep street above a freeway and broke thru a retaining wall at the bottom, stopping with the front wheels of the buses dangling over the freeway below. A real winter wonderland. Must be that global warming...