Weeknotes 26:18

May 3, 2026

Week of April 26–May 2

Graduation, Part 1

My youngest graduated Summa Cum Laude from Chattanooga State Community College on Friday night. I am very proud of all she achieved in the past two years. She performed in four different shows, with the lead role in final one. She also was an assistant stage director for a show in the fall. All while maintained a 4.0 GPA.

She has received several scholarships and committed to attending East Tennessee State in the fall. One of the benefits of being unemployed in 2024 is that she qualified for a Pell Grant and with her other scholarships, her schooling is paid for next year. She plans to major in theater and minor in dance. I am looking forward to attending orientation with her in early June so I can see the campus she has fallen in love with.

Graduation, part two, will happen next week when we travel back to Murray State to see my son and his fiancé graduate on Saturday.

In the workshop

I worked on a lot of different things this week at work. I was also handed a multi-day project as I was asked to create a couple of different event pages surrounding Revive Our Hearts 25th Anniversary.

  • I reworked the layout for videos on our Fiscal End of the Year giving page
  • I created an app page for the Mujer Verdadera ‘26 conference happening in Miami later this year
  • I finished up work on refactoring several “confirmation” pages (store purchases, donations, event registration, giveaways) to bring consistency of style and structure to those pages. Those changes launched later in the week.
  • I spent all day Wednesday working on an event page for Revive Our Hearts 25th Anniversary. I finished up the page on Thursday and then created another page with similar styles for a second event.

I found out some disappointing news on Tuesday. My team leader called a meeting and informed us that he is going to be leaving Revive Our Hearts for a new opportunity at the end of May. While I am glad for him, I am bummed because I have enjoyed having Bryan as my team leader. He is my closest point of connection with the ministry. I have enjoyed working with him and appreciated his constant encouragement and compliments for the work I have been doing. I enjoyed getting to room with him last August when our team attended the Beer City Code conference in Grand Rapids. I will miss the relationship I was just beginning to form with Bryan.

Of course with his departure, there are a lot of uncertainty about the future. I know that he is working with the leadership as they try to determine the future of the position and how responsibilities will be shared by other team members in the transition.

This comes on the heels of finding out my friend, small group leader, and assistant pastor will be relocating to DC for a new opportunity in June. Lots of changes at work. And lots of changes at home as my son graduates and moves out and my youngest will be going away to school next fall.

Articles I read

Caught my eye

Cursor Camp – A website to hang out with other cursors. I had fun hanging out there for a bit on Wednesday.

delphitools – A fun little Indie toolkit. I used the background remover tool last week.

comiCSS #248: Beware of CSS!

Break The Glass (Codepen) – This is nice for some stress relief.

See the Pen Break the Glass ?? by mike-at-redspace (@mike-at-redspace) on CodePen.

Fraude Design (Scott Riley) – This would have been a good April Fool’s joke.

Artemis Photo Timeline (Hank Green)

What I watched

Ben Sasse: 60 Minutes Interview – I have always admired Ben Sasse. I wish there were more politicians like him today. I enjoyed this interview with him on 60 Minutes. I wish the government were wrestling with important issues like how to deal with the fallout of AI and the disruption to the lives of American workers.

  • The West Wing (Netflix)
  • All Creatures Great & Small (PBS app) – I have been rewatching season 1.
  • Mission Impossible: Fallout (Paramount Plus) – I had only seen this once. I realized that I have access to it on Paramount Plus so I decided to watch it at the end of the week.
  • Independence Day (Netflix) – I had seen a clip of the movie on Facebook recently and decided to watch it.
  • Full Swing, Season Four (Netflix) – I found it interesting that they decided to make the focus of this season all on the Ryder’s Cup. It did make a compelling story.

Books I am reading

I don’t think I touched any of these books this week. I want to get back in the habit of reading books regularly.

Walking

I have been taking some shorter walks in the middle of the work day to refocus or to think.

  • Monday – 1.29 miles in 25 minutes
  • Friday – 1.39 miles in 26 minutes
  • Saturday – 3.32 miles in 1 hour

What I played

MLB The Show 23 (Orioles) – I went 3-1 in games that I played this week.

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