Hey there, bird gang! I figure I owe you an update.
So, after a pretty long behind-the-scenes fiasco trying to find housing and tie up some loose ends, I signed a lease for a new place a few nights ago. After a, frankly, fucking horrible year, this is a reprieve and victory I needed badly. It is a place, literally just for me, with a home office and fulfillment space, ample natural light for the birds, and all of my neighbors are quiet old people.
Unfortunately, there is still a lot of work to do, and it is on a strict time limit.
I am finalizing everything and starting to move this weekend. It's just going to be me, and some extremely kind volunteers getting everything over. It's "all hands on deck," which means, basically, "all of Ken's time and energy not spent at the day jobs."
And, as much as I'd like it to be the other way around, having a real house with a roof and internet, and keeping my jobs I pay rent with, does take precedence over art.
I am chipping away at surveys. We are in a state we're almost ready for review and smoke tests, but we need some thumbnail/example art for items. I get some mercy on scheduling tomorrow, and Saturday, so I'll try to have this set to go.
I can't say anything for sure, but I am aiming to have smokes out by early next week.
Smoke tests are early surveys sent to a percentage of backers to test for problems. If you get a survey early next week, you have a smoke test. What should you do? Fill it out as normal.
Please be ready to reach out to [email protected] with any missing items, variants, typos, or confusing wording with the survey. I offer free sticker sheets for people who find critical problems. And, spoiler alert, I am running on empty, so, there will probably be some.
Whenever smoke tests go out, we will send surveys to the masses a few days later so I have time to fix issues.
