Today's Daily Double is... the trivia salt mines!

day two of the sailing course wrapped this morning. certified! an actual piece of paper coming in the mail that says i can be trusted with a small sloop. big feelings post later, when my forearms forgive me.

instead, a memory that's been circling all week: before this job i spent four years at a lil startup making voice games for alexa boxes and firetv sticks and roku remotes. jeopardy-shaped stuff mostly. strangest craft i ever practiced. you are doing comedy timing in a markup language, counting milliseconds bc the beat has to be juuuust right, a pause that plays as suspense at 300ms plays as a crash at 3000. we agonized over how a fake host says "ooh, so close" in a way that makes grandma laugh instead of feel judged. four directions and a select button on a tv remote, that's your entire keyboard, now go build joy.

the part I miss is the reviews. some family in ohio writing "we play every friday, the kids do teams." your bug reports have grandmothers in em.

the itch never left (Al and i still lie in bed scheming absurd games) and the tv bundle dream comes back every few months. one day. tonight the newly certified sailor sleeps at nine like a kid after the beach