Hey everyone! It looks like we are mostly done with the first phase of the transition/consolidation phase, so I actually may get something akin to free time for a little while.

Basically, what's been happening is this: our company had been looking to be sold and shed some of our debt load, and some of the primary lein holders were balking at the sale, so in October, we entered into bankruptcy court under a Chapter 363 filing for the purpose ofexpediting the sale process. What this allowed us to do was to tell the primary lein holders to get on board for the sale or pi$$ off. Part of the bankruptcy process allowed us to reject any and all leases deemed invalid. We determined that if we closeda coupleof our corporate offices, we would be able to save a very sizeable amount of money in rent and other overhead. One of the offices was able to be closed without incident (thus why I was in Detroit a couple of times over the last few months), but we needed to ramp up our operations here to make up for the loss of the other office. This has meant a hiring bonanza inour office, where we needed to create new spaces for people to work (thus, our department needed to coordinate the setup of the new spaces, as well as the installation of new wiring and networking equipment) and the transfer of equipment from the closing offices to our existing office.

I just got back from traveling to the other office for the past week to begin shutdown of the big office, so phase two is complete. At last it appears that I am done with late nights and traveling for the next month or so, so I will be able to devote more time to GS once again. I'm going to do my best to catch up, but since I spent most of last month away from here, I may just have to jump back in where I can. It's good to see you all again