2024-12-18 Status Report
On Sunday, November 17th, I received the Stock Purchase Agreement from our business attorney. Unfortunately, I was a bit tired (and unbeknownst to me at the time, slightly sick) when I received it, so I didn't make it immediately available. Turns out, I had covid, which I gave to my ninety-two year old mother and that caused a lot of problems1.
Mom's Status (slipping into dementia)
Physically, mom is completely recovered from covid as you can see by her Strava activity (or just trust me if you don't have a Strava account). However, mentally she took a hit that is worrisome.
People on the BARGE mailing list may know that my mom stuffered a stroke on March 27th, 2024. On April 13th, after she was released from ICU -> Hospital Room -> Inpatient Rehab, she was no longer fit to live alone. My sister lived with her until June 3rd, when I took over. I've been there ever since, although I've been spelled by my sister or wife here and there.
Mom's mental acuity and memory were slowly starting to fail pre-stroke. They both took a huge hit with her stroke, but she regained much of—but not all—she had lost, before I gave her covid.
IMO, without the stroke and without covid, mom would have been sliding slowly into dementia. The stroke made things worse, with a big dip followed by a rebound. Covid was a smaller dip and so far, a smaller rebound.
My Status (healthy, and adjusting)
I still have a great immune system and probably never would have gotten covid had I not done a twenty-four hour race in the drinking division (meaning I had to drink a beer before each hilly four mile loop) on November 8th2. FWIW, I've done that race several times before without getting sick, but I've lost fitness since I've become my mother's minder.
When both mom and I had covid at the same time, I still had to tend to her and her ancient cat, which slowed my recovery. I only missed a few trainings, but I did get very tired every afternoon for a while. Now my afternoon tiredness has returned to "normal" (normal for me), which is dependent on how much quality sleep I got the night before.
Before covid, I had begun reprogramming myself to work efficiently in the presence of a zillion tiny interruptions per-day. During covid it almost seemed hopeless as everything ground to a halt. Now that we're both through it, I'm continuing to tweak my schedule and habits to be effective even in the absence of large blocks of uninterrupted time (FTR, that mostly means not goofing off at the beginning of each work block).
Title3 Funds is a go!
So, even with the Stock Purchase Agreement in hand, I did not send email to Title3 Funds until I was pretty sure that both mom and I were fully recovered (except her increase in dementia). I got a promising reply Friday the thirteenth and it took a few days to schedule and have a call, but that happened yesterday morning (Tuesday the seventeenth of December) and we're moving forward.
I'd say "all steam ahead", except it's both the holidays and the end of the year, both of which slow things down. Title3 Funds needs a few things:
- reviewed financial statements
- completion of SEC Form C3
- marketing materials
The financial statements have to come from CPC's accountant and I don't yet know how long that will take. I think it can be done without much effort, because CPC has had no income and the accountant has already prepared CPC's 2022 and 2023 tax returns.
I've already completed about 80% of the Form C, but I'll need a little help from our business attorney (and maybe the accountant) to double check a few things.
I can do the marketing materials myself. They'll suck, but I think they'll be good enough. Only one way to find out. Spoiler: it'll largely be a rewording of what I've already said, because although I'm literally years behind schedule, the overall plan hasn't changed.
While working on the above three things, I'll also continue working on mb2, albeit mostly working on the bug backlog rather than adding functionality.
I'm ashamed that I let so much time pass between my last status report and this one. I have found that if I really want to get stuff done, I need to block out explicit time to do it and I'm especially bad at sending status reports because I want them to be all-singing, all-dancing and there's typically always one thing that is just about to happen that I am willing to wait for. My solution is to write my status reports on Wednesdays, up at my house, after doing my Wednesday ruck speed run, when I'm caffeinated AF.
Whee!
Covid is a complicated subject and writing a status report that provides "the right" amount of information is not something I can do quickly (or perhaps at all). I'm acutely aware that "caused a lot of problems" sounds flip if not actually callous, but I want my opening paragraph to summarize the reason for the delay as well as to not hide challenges.
I'd rather document my lack of judgment and foresight than to sweep it under the rug, especially since anyone following me on Strava and/or reading my diet log would already know about this.
The PDF link is there just so you can see what it looks like, in general. I actually fill it out via raisepapers.com