Day 12. We had a status meeting this morning. It was good but I realised that we’re over the initial excitement and into the slog. Very good progress from Engineering, we’re way ahead of milestones on that, and we’ve got a nice logo and the Art Department have clearly started thinking properly about design. But we’ve had little hiccups on budgeting, people we wanted to talk to aren’t calling us back and we’re facing up to the dread business of merchant accounts and all that.
Plus, this morning 4IP sent us an invoice, and they’ve not even paid us any money yet. It’s all legit, right there in the contract, we should have expected it, and it’s part of the money you get, but still, it’s a little shock when it arrives. Ah well. It shocked us into paying more attention to money, so now we have a special budget barometer to help us keep track.