{"id":1622,"date":"2014-01-21T12:01:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T16:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2014-01-21T12:01:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T16:01:44","slug":"tuesday-21-january-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/01\/21\/tuesday-21-january-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 21 January 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">11:01 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> I just finished shipping the backlog of science kit orders that built up over the holiday. Danny, our regular mailman, left me a handwritten note Saturday, saying that he was off today and that they were expecting a blizzard of packages. He suggested that I file a pick-up request to make sure that his replacement didn&#8217;t miss picking up our stuff. I did that last night, so whoever is running Danny&#8217;s route today got a printout of pickup requests first thing this morning, including ours.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Business this year appears to be picking up substantially over last year, which has gotten me started thinking about long-term inventory. Over the relatively slow months between now and this summer, we need to build up component inventory significantly. If we have the components and subassemblies in stock&#8211;chemical bags, small parts bags, individual items, and so on&#8211;it doesn&#8217;t take long to assemble the actual kits. I want to start July with 100 to 150 kits built and the components for at least 200 more on hand, August with at least 300 kits&#8217; worth on hand, and September with at least 200. If growth continues on the current curve, we&#8217;ll ship several hundred kits in the last five months of the year. With our limited resources, that will require planning to make sure we don&#8217;t run dry.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11:01 &#8211; I just finished shipping the backlog of science kit orders that built up over the holiday. Danny, our regular mailman, left me a handwritten note Saturday, saying that he was off today and that they were expecting a blizzard of packages. He suggested that I file a pick-up request to make sure that his replacement didn&#8217;t miss picking up our stuff. I did that last night, so whoever is running Danny&#8217;s route today got a printout of pickup requests first thing this morning,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/01\/21\/tuesday-21-january-2014\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tuesday, 21 January 2014 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}