The Weekly Wrap-Up: January 22-26, 2024

Ey up!

It's Board week, everyone. 

By which, of course, I mean that the Board is here and I avoid them as much as possible. Except I failed because I was asked to sing for the special Board chapel and I wasn't sick enough to legitimately cancel and then someone had the bright idea to offer a free lunch as a bribe for talking to Board members and I'll do a lot for free food. 

Whatever. It's over. I survived. Barely scathed. 

On the bright side, I got some actual work done this week. I finished my group of Amharic booklets and was able to then put together the volume for term four of Village Church Planting. That was eight booklets worth of material. In a language that looks like hieroglyphics.

My brain is mush.

Plus I had a cold this week. Monday was the scratchy throat. Tuesday was the throat and head congestion. Wednesday was the mucous-filled sinus cavities. Thursday was the sinuses and chest congestion. Today is the clean-up cough. It's progressing nicely. (It was actually advantageous for Thursday's singing. I was doing harmony, and I think I was about an octave lower than everyone else.)

I have a lot coming up, so I'm going to value my weekend. I hope you are able to do the same. 

Bye!

The Weekly Wrap-Up: January 15-19, 2024

Ey up!

The week started off strong as I overslept my alarm. Go me. I decided to treat it as an early birthday present because there wasn't a whole lot I could do about it. 

I'm still working on published files. I got another language done with those, but I've had to pause that work so I can do a group of Amharic. That is the language spoken in Ethiopia. It uses a really cool script, and it's one of the few that actually takes up less space than English. That makes my job really easy. 

So, my birthday was on Tuesday. It was a great day, despite the cold. I'm used to being cold on my birthday. But my coworkers took me out to lunch and gave me really fun gifts. It was a great day, continued Thursday evening with dinner at K-town. It's a newer restaurant that does Korean bbq and hot pot. I'd never done hot pot before, so that was a fun experience! 

This has been a quiet week overall. The weather keeps many people home, and while I do get more done when it's quiet, I also do like to see people on occasion. 

Shocking, I know.

That's it for this week. I hope you stay warm and cozy. 

Bye!

The Weekly Wrap-Up: January 8 - 12, 2024

Eh up, my beauties! I hope you are well.

This has been a fairly quiet week for me. We're still in maintenance mode, so any excitement will have to come from a surprising source. Not that I'm advocating for it. The snow has arrived, and that's all the excitement I need around here. 

I'm still fixing published files. The fixing part is usually pretty easy. It's often obvious what the problem is. But then I have to republish into every format and re-upload to the various platforms. Again, not hard. But time-consuming. 

I have also been sorting out a new machine for one of my team members. Well, new old. The computer she's using now won't update anymore (thanks, Apple) so we're upgrading to the spare in my office. That means reconfiguring it and getting all of the programs updated. Basically, doing what I did with my computer back in December. I have fond memories. 

I'm working on some new funding ideas. If you have thoughts, I'm taking any and all advice. I know we're all feeling the squeeze. 

That's it for the week. Stay warm out there.

Bye!

The Weekly Wrap-Up: January 2-5, 2023

I know it only says January up there, but it has come to my attention that I haven't actually posted anything since the beginning of December, so this is more of a recap of the last month. 

The lead-up to Christmas was pretty decent. Understandably, the translators don't send a lot of work in around the holidays, so it gave me a lot of time to work on Christmas cards and letters to donors. I have also been working on cyber security training, a lot of which is hilarious, especially in the acting. It's good information, of course, but a lot of it is quite redundant. 

Did you know I'm an angel? You probably did because of course I am. 

And some others, I guess. But mostly me. And some shepherds. 

That was our last chapel before Christmas. It was a good one. 

Christmas was lovely. I had a great time with my parents here in Greenwood. I got a new sword (sweet!) and some great t-shirts. I gave my mom a gift that took her about 20 minutes to open - super fun. And I got my dad a train set. No idea where he'll put it, but I think he appreciated the thought. 

I worked most of the week between Christmas and New Year's. Not much else to do around here. But I attended a lovely party for the transition from 2023 to 2024 and then hit the good sales. 

And now we're back at work. There is always a time of catching up and lamenting all of the things you said you'd take care of next year. My big project right now is fixing the big mistakes in some of our published files. Not the small ones like spelling mistakes, though those are important, but the really glaring ones like missing back pages. Yes, that does happen. We're human. Mistakes are part of life. 

It's nice to have time to do stuff like this, though. We're usually snowed under by incoming projects, but we're down to just a handful of languages. We have some things on the horizon, but for now, we can take our time streamlining more things and making sure we have the best product possible. 

I hope you have a great (and warm - it's freezing in this building) weekend. 

Bye!