I am happy to be up and running again after the storm knocked out our power for several days. Not everyone has their electricity back, so you can still hear generators running throughout the city. Hopefully, it will not be too much longer for them. In the meantime, I am trying to get back in the swing of things, starting with our weekly conference call. Oddly enough, Dr. Tiell had canceled last Thursday’s meeting about three hours before the storm came through. The reason was so Liston could focus on campaigning (B. Tiell, personal communication, August 10, 2020). With the situation as it has been here, however, it was a good thing we did not meet. I am definitely raring to go on Life After the Games now after essentially a ten-day layoff.
At the request of Dr. Tiell, I sent over the most recently completed Life After the Games brochure before the meeting, where we went over it as a group. I have been told that it continues to look better, it just still needs a few tweaks before it is ready for consumption. One thing that was pointed out, in particular, was that the medal had too much of a military look to it. Additionally, the edges of the ribbon from the pre-produced image I found off Canva were rounded and Josh felt it needs to be more square. He also requested that the connector between the medal and ribbon be separated which cannot be accomplished in its pre-produced state. I explained this to him in a later e-mail. I am anticipating that more modifications will need to be made.