Bootcamp Prep

This week was the last opportunity I had to get ready for my AWAI Bootcamp (Copywriting seminar) next week.  I really worked hard on trying to get all my projects finished up. I thought I was done with my Kenya water project website. Then some questions came up about duplicate material on the website.

I took a look at the website and they'd moved a bunch of stuff around. I said I'd take a look and make some corrections. Titi, the owner, said he'd do some work to. NOT! I was done. It was his "work" that had mucked up the whole thing.

So I wrote back and said if he wanted to continue to work on it, I was stepping out. It was of course, his website, but his way of thinking and my way of understanding didn't match and if he wanted to add his ideas to it, he'd have to do it on his own. Frankly, I was fine either way.

He came back saying no, I was the final word and they shouldn't have changed things around without involving me in the process. So I spent the time making corrections. Now, I hope it's done.

I also finished up some publicity for BotAlert, a technology that can discover bots in Twitter. Who knew that hundreds of thousands of users are really robot programs created to look like real people, influence their buying or voting decisions, and click on advertiser's  buttons to waste their advertising dollars. People think these bots tried to skew the Brexit vote-- and the surprise vote to leave the EU came because bots affected the polls.

I also finished some work on MealCheck, a technology that uses infrared spectrometry in a micro camera to "read" the food on your plate and give you the nutritional value and calories of what you are eating. A major US university is pioneering this one.

Monday I also attended a meeting with a focus group for the Calico Prison about fundraising to build a larger chapel for the expanded prison. It would need to be funded without state funds. A good meeting and I met some nice people. I will work on the website.

Tom worked at Deborah's Cotter house painting the kitchen back splash and fixing a few things. We thought the carpet could be cleaned... but apparently not. So Tom will take that out and put down vinyl planking in the bedroom(s). He also is on track to replace the second story deck on our Midway duplex and put in new stairs. This is a repair-as-you-go as opposed to new construction. And then new tenants moving into Rebecca's house want a cement slab in the garage instead of just dirt... so he'll try to get that done by the end of the month.

Nathan as been with us for about a week. We are getting adjusted to one another. He has been out job hunting and has helped around the house and mowed the pasture. He has also slept a lot and spent much time on the phone to his sweetie. However he seems amenable to doing things our way.  Good thing. We are old fogies and stuck in our ways.

I managed to get in some garden work, a haircut, and a massage. Massage felt really good. I need to do more research on companies that will be coming to bootcamp.

We've talked with most of the kids this week. Things seem to be going well with them. Adam's dental practise is flourishing with him making a goodly amount more each month than the previous owner... and collections are improving. Jonathan and Kristy are still in a holding pattern as they look for a place to rent. The demolition is mostly done so the construction should be able to get started after the remediation people spray the beams and other places to seal in the smoke smell. We are grateful for all our blessings.