Delightful Reveal #30

“This is a nightmare of weirdness but it seems to work.”

What we did:

• Had a meeting with Metis Communications to talk about how to let the world know we’re here.
• Looked forward and set SMART goals for the next six months for Valenzia, Jonathan B, and Jonathan G via Sticky Note Game.
• Had my first Sticky Note game and set goals for the next 6 months.
• Started taking a Figma course.
• Agreed to a date for the next in-person pre-board meeting.
• Introduced Supplier Link to our first group of alpha users!
• Messed around with some Turbo caching by Preparing The Page To Be Cached and Detecting When A Preview Is Visible.
• Upgraded Language and Framework for WomenEmployed.org.
• Explored Language version incompatibilities with SickTimeChicago.org.
• Asked for (and received) additional permissions from usability test participants to share video clips in our findings report. Prepared and delivered a usability test findings report as well as a presentation.
• Marketing site(s) - working on what content will boost sales and interest, designing homepages and determining the look and feel - 3 different clients 3 different feels.
• Outlined an approach for updating all components in a client application to use a new, more accessible color palette and address design debt.
• Filed annual reports for Colorado and Louisiana.

What we’re reading:

• Loving by Jeong Ho-Seung 
• What If? 2
• Object-Oriented UX by Sophia Prater
• Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures by André Brock, Jr.

What we’re watching:

• See You in My 19th Life
• Guardians of the Galaxy 3
• The Great British Sewing Bee, Series 9
• Good Omens, Season 2
• The Bear S2
• Sort Of
• The Conversation (1974)
• The Barbie movie (at the Drive-in)
• Birdie Wing S2
• Tokyo VLOG: Tanabata festival, Ghibli Exhibition Tokyo, What I eat in a week, Studying Japanese (YouTube)
• Oppenheimer
• 1-800-ARE-YOU-SLAPPING (YouTube) 
• Doggy Daycare Livecam

What we’re listening to:

• Back to Me / Alive by The Rose
• Idris Elba DJ sets (yes, actor and really good DJ) (example set)
• Love Me a Little by Shownu x Hyungwon
• 99 Percent Invisible: Cooking with Gas
• Stuff the British Stole: The Girl Called Pocahontas
• The Mess Inside - Amanda Palmer (The Mountain Goats Cover)
• Spooky Little Girl Like You
• Big Thief - Vampire Empire
• A lot of “southern” music for a potluck we’re hosting

What we’re interested in:

• Markwhen
• How Capicola Became Gabagool: The Italian New Jersey Accent, Explained
• The otherwise-hidden conditions we subject public servants to 
• Programming computer games, for some reason (where programming is the mechanic — like Neon Noodles)

What we’re struggling with:

• Home-ownership - when things break…continuously…$$$. Also, unannounced dryer delivery at 7am then finding out that the outlet was the wrong type of outlet and having 48 hours to check if the new appliance works.
• Feeling unable to put down a book that isn’t that great, and upon finishing said book, feeling no satisfaction.
• Cat kidney disease and aging cat. 🙁
• Accidentally buying tickets to a concert in the wrong city.
• Broken Apple Pencil. :’(
• Trying to get the basics of the Greek and Romanian languages simultaneously.
• Starting a new epicycle without having done a discovery.
• Getting vaccinated for Costa Rica - lotta jabs ahead of me.
• United States women’s national team struggling this world cup.

What we’re buying:

• Tape and chalk for climbing
• New monitor
• New 15” MacBook Air M2
• Tickets to see Eric Nam
• SEBO Airbelt E3 vacuum
• Solar Panels
• Flights/hotel for a trip to Amsterdam
• Ceramic masks

What we’re celebrating:

• Finding a good massage studio.
• Planning an all-day pool party to entice some out-of-town friends to visit.
• Getting back into DragonRuby (finally) and continuing the DragonRuby tutorial. My dragon can shoot fireballs now!
• Going to an amazing Paramore concert.
• Naps +1.
• Southern food.

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