Delightful Reveal #55

“Imagine being bullied via pas de bourrée.”

What we did:

• Met Flagrant people in the wild at Summit! Also met some llamas and alpacas as we visited Clover Brooke Farms and made fiber art loofahs.
• Updated sales assets and pricing sheets to help sell and detail a new text messaging platform for a client
• Delivered a new Findings and Recommendations Report for a potential client
• Assisting on the reworking and revamping of the Flagrant website to reflect new work, methods and offerings
• Drove 30+hrs to the Catskill Mountains and back to Wisconsin for #worksummit
• Worked on the Major Donor Program Guide for Ruby Central
• Adapted a Product Management Maturity Model to help convey and benchmark where organizations are at so they know how to improve
• Getting ready for our first Madison+ Ruby pre-show event in NYC, and we’ve got more events in the works!

What we’re reading:

• Loveless by Alice Oseman
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
• Honor by Thrity Umrigar
• The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford
• The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
• Upstream by Mary Oliver
• The Twenty-One Balloons, by William Pène du Bois
• The Victorian Internet
• Delicious in Dungeon

What we’re watching:

• Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
•  PWHL championship
• Better Call Saul
• Counterpart
• Make Some Noise
• L’Agence S4
• The Three Body Problem
• Anne of Green Gables
• Taskmaster 
• Dumb Money
• Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga
• The Great British Sewing Bee
• Danny Gregory doing a detailed walkthrough of artists sketchbooks:  Saul Steinberg & Chris Ware
• Abbott Elementary S3
• Hastily made Cleveland Tourism video
• Relaxing Silent Solo Camp With my Dog by Chasing Adventures

What we’re listening to:

• James Acaster’s Classic Scrapes (audiobook narrated by author)
• The Hare with the Amber Eyes
• The Best of the Lemonheads (The Atlantic Years)
• Alabama Shakes - Sound and Color album
• Work by Ateez
• Wildflower by Billie Eilish
• Boys Will Be Girls by We Are The Union
• Made a women only playlist for Amanda (Parental Advisory)!
• Made a 90’s hip hop/rn’b playlist for road trip (Parental Advisory)!
• Anderson .Paak - Lite Weight (feat. The Free Nationals United Fellowship Choir)
• Flume feat. Toro y Moi - The Difference (Official Music Video)

What we’re interested in:

• Super bikes weekend at Road America
• Candy-colored electronics
• Painting amateur portraits of former political leaders in gouache
• Pineapple Express - an atmospheric river

What we’re struggling with:

• Chaotic week
• Packing and organizing
• Sleep +2
• A five gallon batch of glaze I put an incorrect ingredient in
• Pollen
• A deer that hit my car in Ohio on our return from the summit 🙁
• Packing up a household & cat for a month in the mountains near Lake Tahoe
• The fact that The Great British Sewing Bee isn’t sewing outfits for a giant bee, nor is it a giant bee using its stinger as a needle to sew with
• Possible covid in the house
• A friend’s cancer diagnosis (waiting to find out more)

What we’re buying:

• Home gym workout bench
• Plane tickets to Taiwan/Japan
• Paper bugs
• Earring components for making more ceramic earrings
• A license renewal for CleanShot, a screen capturing tool
• So much stuff at Chicory Naturalist, an amazing shop focused on fungi, plants, and insects in Kingston, NY

What we’re celebrating:

• Kelly recommended a financial advisor that I am starting to work with
• Pickled vegetables are ready to eat
• Having the daily meditation habit back
• Finished “Intro to Motion Design” course
• New season of Pachinko coming out in August (I recommend reading the book first!)
• Flowers!
• A childhood friend moving to town
• Julia Evans’ new zine about Git: How Git Works
• New hummingbird nest in the yard; third nest this year!
• Finding the perfect ratio of chia seeds and milk for chia pudding
• Reptiland in Pennsylvania
• Jim and Jen were each independently selected to give talks at DevFest WI.

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