The Weekly Wrap-Up: May 22-26, 2023

I told Sarah earlier this month that I had a goal to spend more days out of the office in May than I did in the office. It was mostly a joke (what are goals?), but between the work being done on our hallway and some traveling I'm doing, I haven't been far off. 

That's not to say I haven't been keeping myself busy. I have had plenty of stuff going on, to the point where I'm just giving up on getting any kind of sleep schedule. It'll be fine, right?

Anyway, I'll give an update on where things stand with the hallway. (We need a name for it, by the way. Probably one for the conference room and one for what used to be ECC. If you have any ideas, let me know.)

This was my view for a couple of days as chairs were put together, HVAC systems were fixed, and whatever else they are doing. (They asked my opinion, I gave it, but I don't think it counted for much.) 

That's what things look like right now. Yes, that is an orange triangle on the wall. It'll be fine.

We are republishing English files to account for all of the mistakes and formatting issues we've found over the last seven or eight years. This will hopefully make our lives easier as we start new language projects, and it will also look like we actually know what we're doing when people read through Train & Multiply booklets. Right now I'm working on the set that uses the Asian art. 

Fun times. 

My prayer letter went out last week. Keep an eye out for it, and if you don't receive it and want to, drop me a line or a comment. 

Bye!

The Weekly Wrap-Up: May 8-12, 2023

It has been a while, hasn't it?

I'll try to sum up the last couple of weeks as best I can. It seems like May hit and suddenly everything needed to be done pronto. Kinda drives me nuts, to be honest. But we persevere as we can. 

Last week I started what will likely be an ongoing project. I mentioned that I'm on the safety committee at OMS, right? Part of that is making sure we have evacuation plans for each building. No problem with the main building because we had those floor plans already drawn up. Not so much for the other two buildings - Research and Writing, and Men for Missions. Granted, they are smaller and have fewer employees in them. They know what to do. But visitors don't, and we need to be compliant because you never know what's going to trip you up with the law. 

So I found a website that would let me draw up some floor plans for free. (I'll probably have to eventually pay so I can get a more professional copy.) Last week, I worked on R&W. I had to know where the doors were, fire extinguishers, windows - all the stuff. I haven't done MFM, yet. This is less of a priority, unfortunately, but still important. 

We also learned during our seminar week (great timing) that our hallway would be getting a makeover to set up something to honor Stanley Tam. Tam founded U.S. Plastic and deeded his business over to God. Yes, it can be done. There's a book ("God Owns My Business"). He gave a lot of money to OMS, and we need to show our appreciation. Unfortunately, that means our hallways is a mess until that gets done. (I don't have a good before picture. Just imagine four cubicles along the wall.)

I took a couple of days last week to visit my sister for her birthday. We had a lovely time. Then it was back to work on Tuesday. 

I had to take a course on child protection. I'm sad that this is necessary, but I'm glad OMS is taking it seriously. There is no excuse, especially in the church, for any kind of abuse to be taking place. 

Continuing the safety theme, we had a Lunch & Learn on Wednesday about personal and work safety from the police here in Greenwood. We also talked about mental health needs. 

Finally, I've been working on my prayer letter this week in hopes that it will go out next week. I'm confident that will actually happen. 

Oh, and we had our last Family Fun Night of the season. I think it has gone well this year, and I'm hopeful that we have learned enough this year to make future events even better. 

Next week, they are painting the hallway, so I am staying out of the office. I'll be working on what I can from home, but I have no desire to huff paint fumes for five days straight. So I will catch up in a couple of weeks.

Bye!