The Weekly Wrap-Up: November 14-18, 2016
I didn't get sick this week! Whoooo!
Is it bad that this has become a celebratable achievement in my life?
Sadly, it didn't actually mean much, because I still missed an hour on Wednesday to go to the doc for follow-up. So the 'normal week' is still an elusive concept. I'm not going to blame it on the flu shot I got this year for the first time in forever. But come on. What else could it be?
So we're still doing app meetings in the mornings. I know, I know, we've been doing those forever. I just feel the need to mention it because it takes up a lot of time and energy for very little reward right now. But sometimes that's life.
We're working on putting together another English volume for T&M. Volumes are different from booklets because they are actually several booklets bound together. South Asia does this with the most commonly used booklets, and we thought it would be a good idea for English users. The problem is, the only English volume we have right now uses Indian art. It's not really a problem, it just isn't as culturally ubiquitous as it could be. And we store everything on a remote server, but I don't have access to everything on the server, so I can't change the art. And our main production person just travelled from the UK to Chile. So that slows things down a bit.
So what can I work on? Mostly Trello maintenance. Sorry if you don't use Trello, I'm going to get a little technical right now. I created a base language board that we can copy every time we start a new language. The problem is this: we keep changing the process. So every time I change the base board, I also have to update the languages that are in progress. It was fine when we only had six languages going. But now I have 27 boards to update. But I don't mind because I make them look pretty.
Is it bad that this has become a celebratable achievement in my life?
Sadly, it didn't actually mean much, because I still missed an hour on Wednesday to go to the doc for follow-up. So the 'normal week' is still an elusive concept. I'm not going to blame it on the flu shot I got this year for the first time in forever. But come on. What else could it be?
So we're still doing app meetings in the mornings. I know, I know, we've been doing those forever. I just feel the need to mention it because it takes up a lot of time and energy for very little reward right now. But sometimes that's life.
We're working on putting together another English volume for T&M. Volumes are different from booklets because they are actually several booklets bound together. South Asia does this with the most commonly used booklets, and we thought it would be a good idea for English users. The problem is, the only English volume we have right now uses Indian art. It's not really a problem, it just isn't as culturally ubiquitous as it could be. And we store everything on a remote server, but I don't have access to everything on the server, so I can't change the art. And our main production person just travelled from the UK to Chile. So that slows things down a bit.
So what can I work on? Mostly Trello maintenance. Sorry if you don't use Trello, I'm going to get a little technical right now. I created a base language board that we can copy every time we start a new language. The problem is this: we keep changing the process. So every time I change the base board, I also have to update the languages that are in progress. It was fine when we only had six languages going. But now I have 27 boards to update. But I don't mind because I make them look pretty.
And I can assign labels to things any way I want to.
I also discovered that I need to redo the landing page for T&M that I created. The icons don't show well on the internet, apparently. Whatever. I'm probably being gaslighted, but I don't actually mind creating a new page. And the new icons are still nice, so I'm cool with it.
I've spent a lot of time singing about not being a chicken this week. This weekend, I'm doing a children's program for a mission conference at my parent's church in Huntington. Well, I'm leading it with a friend and fellow missionary. So we had to plan what we were going to do. Which involves singing about not being a chicken. You should totally come check it out if you're curious. We'll be an New Hope church all weekend. I may take embarrassing photos and post them on here.
Next week is Thanksgiving. I'll still be at work through Wednesday, so I may still do this. Or I might write about Lamentations. It's anyone's guess, really.