The We-Wu for January 1-15, 2026

Sweet butter crumpets, we’re halfway through the month already!

I really need this year to slow down. I think my head might explode if it continues to move as fast as it already has.

I don’t want my head to explode.

(Probably. It’s an inelegant solution, but it’s a solution nonetheless. And it’s not like I’ll feel it.)

Look, there’s a lot going on, okay?

These two weeks have been full of meetings and discussions and transitions and things I don’t know how to explain yet. We are still working to move a lot of stuff from Brian’s plate to mine while still keeping up with work and training center deployments. We’re making progress on some things and backtracking on other things. It’s a fluid situation.

On top of that, I have been speaking with a couple of people about joining the team. This is good, obviously, but it also contributes to the workload as I figure out the training process.

As for actual documents, I’ve been working on updating the French coaching pages and formatting the new booklet for Amharic. I’m currently working my way through the Implementation Manual for Kiluba. This might be the most frustrating project as the language probably takes about 160% of the space that English does. I can’t scrunch it too much because then it’s just unreadable. But I also don’t want to add too many pages because that gets expensive for printing.

I think that might cover things for the first two weeks. I know it’s short, but I’m not kidding when I say that everything is just kinda smooshed together in my head, and it’s taking me a minute to reorient when I have to shift gears.

Because I’m old now, you see. The reason we’re publishing this on Thursday instead of Friday is that my birthday is tomorrow, the 16th. Yes, I am turning the big 4-0. Lordy, lordy, look who’s 40. I’ve been told it’s a young 40, but I don’t know if I believe that. It’s just weird. I still feel like I’m in my early 30s. Well, my brain feels that way. My body feels like I’m approaching my 70s.

Whatever. It is what it is. Simultaneously a big deal and a day like any other.

I’m proud I made it this far.

Okay, I’m gonna go take care of some small stuff. Welcome to the New Year. I hope it treats you well.

Bye!