The Weekly Wrap-Up: September 18-22, 2023

Hello! Is it me you're looking for?

I hope so. But if not, stick around. I do try to be entertaining. 

This has been a good week, and definitely busy, as I worked to check everything off my list before I take off on vacation. 

I started off the week knowing I had two meetings on Monday. I was nervous about one because I didn't know what it was about, and I was looking forward to the other. The first meeting was actually fine, though I don't know if anything will come of it. But it was a good conversation, and I think I made some points. The second meeting never happened. That was incredibly frustrating, because it was a meeting that was to make up for a meeting that was making up for another meeting. Lots of cancellations. 

Whatever. I've washed my hands of it.

You'll be happy to hear (or at least I hope you'll be happy) that I have finished my next prayer letter! It is on the presses and getting ready to be mailed out. I'm pleased with this one, and I hope it is informative for you. 

Finally, I have completed the first group of Nepali!

Doesn't it look like Hindi? I suppose you may not be familiar with what Hindi looks like, but I spent months working on that language. They are incredibly similar to me. It's such a clean language, though, and very easy to work with. I think it will be a very smooth project. 

That's all I have for you folks. I'm off for the next two weeks on vacation. I'm really looking forward to it. I hope you get some time for rest as well.

Bye!

The Weekly Wrap-Up: September 11-15, 2023

This has been a week. 

I know. Stating the obvious. 

I am continuing apace with Nepali. It's going well, though the first group always takes longer, especially with a glyph language. Like Hindi, there are no periods in Nepali, just a vertical bar. (I'm sure it has a name, I just don't know what it is.) Sometimes it ends up on a different line from the rest of the sentence. Fun times. 

I have also been scheduling social media posts again. I can only post 29 days out, so I'm trying to get everything scheduled before I leave on vacation so it just runs without me. 

We had a team meeting on Tuesday. It was nice to see everyone on screen for an hour or so and hear about their lives. Please keep praying for Veronica, Eliana, Lynae, Naomi, and my mom (Donna). 

I sang in chapel on Wednesday. I had to learn a lovely new (to me) song by the Gettys. And now I've forgotten the name. Hang on. Google! 

Okay, I hope that worked. Anyway, we did that one and "Oh Praise the Name." 

Did you know there's more to Outreach than what you (hopefully) get in the mail? You can find it online with bonus content! Just click the linky-dink there. 

I think that's it for work. For non-work stuff, I'd appreciate your prayers. My new medication is seriously messing with me. It's moving into 'the cure is worse than the disease' territory. I really want to stick with it because it was incredibly expensive and really hard to get, but it just makes me feel awful. Please pray for that to subside. 

Anyway, that's about it. I hope you have a great weekend. 

Bye!

The Weekly Wrap-Up: September 4-8, 2023

It's another short one this week. Which is weird, because it feels like Labor Day was a month ago, not a week. I didn't do much for Labor Day this year. I was finishing up a cat-sitting stint, and I was also fighting a cold - still am, though it's in the final stages. 

This week, I've been working on social media posts. It amazes me how long it takes to come up with content. I feel like so many people think they can be content creators online, like they'd totally be interesting on YouTube, and they have no idea how much work actually goes into it. Occasionally I think I should do a podcast, but you really have to have the right combination of people and a good topic for it. Again, it's a lot of work. 

But I digress. 

I have also started a new language this week! Nepali is coming along nicely. It looks a lot like Hindi, but as with all languages, it has its own style. It has actually been a long time since I've started a new language and worked from the very beginning. I'm usually publishing and finishing languages, so it's nice to be doing something different. (I just hope I remember what to do at this stage.)

We're entering a stage with a lot of people traveling (including me), so it'll be weird in the office. Okay, I have to clarify that, because people are always traveling. THIS TIME, however, it's people I usually hang out with or see on a regular basis. So the usual routines are going to be thrown off. Which is fine. We all know how much I hate routine. 

O_O

Bye!

The Weekly Wrap-Up: August 28 - September 1, 2023

I have no idea what happened to this week. 

It started fine. I came into work on Monday. I did some proofing of Outreach pages. I scheduled some Facebook posts. I worked on Tamil. I wondered if the tickle in my throat was going to become a problem.

Spoiler alert: it was. And it did. 

My cold came on really fast Monday night. So fast that I was down for the count on Tuesday. 

I hosted chapel on Zoom Wednesday morning. I was feeling marginally better, so I came into the office in the afternoon and stayed away from other people. 

Clearly, that was too much. I was again feeling horribly Thursday morning, but I came in the afternoon again. I did manage to finish Tamil and publish it completely. I also published all of the Spanish I was doing the art swap for all those months ago. I felt accomplished. 

I'm really hoping that this cold just goes away soon. I'd like to have some semblance of a normal weekend. That probably just means a lot of sleep, honestly. 

I guess I was due for something like this, but I still don't like it. Weirdly, my sister and nephew also got sick this week. Maybe it went through the phone. Probably some government conspiracy. 

Bye!

The Weekly Wrap-Up: August 21-25, 2023

I need to stop getting into Internet arguments. 

Thankfully, there are plenty of other things to do. Tamil, for one. Yes, it's still ongoing. I'm making progress, but I get sidetracked by other things. This week it was a power outage, a bout with vertigo, and some proofreading of the next issue of Outreach. It's going to be a good one!

Honestly, the heat this week has kinda sapped most of my energy, and there isn't much more to talk about. I do like the heat more than I like the cold, but either extreme makes life difficult. I hope you are keeping cool and taking the opportunities for some relief. 

Bye!

The Weekly Wrap-Up: August 14-18, 2023

Friends!

I trust you are well. It has been a decent week for me, though I am struggling with some side effects from a new medication. It has forced me to adjust my daily schedule a bit as I am most effected in the mornings. But I tend to be a night owl anyway, so I make it work. 

I'm still working on Tamil, though that project is close to being finished. I've been adding more and more things to my queue, so I'm feeling the pressure to complete them quickly. Tamil is an interesting language because the spacing can be problematic. We decided to left justify everything, and my brain doesn't like having incomplete lines everywhere. But it works for the client, so I will live with it. 

I'm also working on scheduling social media posts, which takes a surprising amount of time. You have to make it interesting and visually appealing, which is not always easy. I don't spend a lot of time on social media myself, so I'm not really up on the latest trends. I don't really want to be, either. 

We had a team meeting this week, which I always enjoy. You can pray for Eliana, who will be traveling with her husband to visit family in the UK. Pray for Veronica to find a suitable new home in Scotland. Pray for BJ as he navigates healthcare for his mom. Pray for Brian as he works on prioritizing projects. Pray for Lynae to have good news about her knee. Pray for Naomi to have good news from her own doctor's visit. Pray for Donna (my mom) as she navigates a situation at her church. 

I hope you have a great weekend. Treat yourself. 

Bye!

The Weekly Wrap-Up: August 7-11, 2023

Did anyone else get a ton of rain this week? I thought I might have to swim home a couple of days. 

It has been a pretty good week. I was pretty tired after last weekend. My mom, my sister, and I headed over to the 127 Yard Sale on Friday and Saturday. It was a fascinating experience, but it was also very tiring. I'm looking forward to sleeping a bit more this weekend. 

I'm continuing on with Tamil. I'm looking forward to being done with it and starting the next big project in my queue. 

I also worked on Family Fun Night stuff this week. I have a great team helping me, and we were able to set the dates and themes for the '23-'24 season. Hooray! I'm hoping it will be a much less stressful experience this year. 

Also, Facebook is annoying. I've been scheduling posts for the T&M page, but then I realized I only have partial access. There's another person who actually started the page who also has partial access. But neither of us actually owns the page, and the FB support system is sorely lacking. I finally found a place to actually send a description of my issue, but I feel like I won't get anywhere until I can actually speak to someone. And we all know the likelihood of that happening. But I have to try because this is causing me consternation. 

Other than that, things are good, and life progresses on much as it has this century. I hope you have a lovely weekend.

Bye!