Total Unlocked: $160
Spent: $43.64
Balance: $116.36
Cards:
[Whimsicott V deck]
[Misc Support cards]
Hisuian Sneasler V x3
[Regi deck]
Last week, my boss was once again out of town. The week started off on a low point, as the owner of the company held a staff meeting themed all around customer service. And he went person by person demanding new ideas for improving customer service. For myself and a new employee (who had no new customer service ideas), he chastised us with a tirade about how customer service should be at the center of everything we do, no matter what level or department we work at in the company. That sent me off the deep end for about a day, and I seriously pondered quitting. But I righted the ship of my mental state by watching a video conversation between myself and my boss, in which we discussed the ins and outs of what I was actually supposed to be working on (right before he left). That conversation put me back into the mindset I needed to be in, and over the course of the week, I was able to knock out all of the projects my boss had lined up for me.
Those projects included:
1) Creating a javascript package that we could include on pages throughout the company's backend, which would run various regular expression checks against fields that were given the css class of "smart-text" where-in each regex that was applied could convert the resulting matches into a link to one of a few different parts of the site.
2) Updating our header search functionality to use a better, more efficient method of finding and supplying autocomplete matches.
Completing these projects counts as two stages and one level, and accordingly unlocks another 2x $5 + 1x $25. This week, I'm working on Level 6: Freshdesk API interactions. Currently, this looks like another two-stage level, but we'll see how it ultimately ends up once I dig in further.
Also, as a closing note, things are on hold for Pokemon purchasing until I work out what decks I'm going to run in the next format. I will likely resume live competition in that format, so I want to figure out what will be best for actual play at that point. Given that major pieces of all current decks are expected to rotate out (e.g. no longer be useable), I want to wait and see what emerges as the next decks I enjoy before I spend anything else on building them. Most of what I've acquired thus far is cheap cards that will not rotate this year, so things are in good shape in that respect. But many of the remaining cards on my list start to get a bit more pricey, so I want to be sure I want them before I spend the money.
