Add weeknote for February 7–13, 2026

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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+title: "Weeknotes: Feb 7–13, 2026"
+date: 2026-02-14T10:00:00-05:00
+description: CONpossible wrapped, Juniper turned sixteen, and I dropped a career bombshell on my way back to real life.
+draft: false
+tags:
+  - weeknotes
+  - CONpossible
+  - conventions
+  - family
+---
+
+_Post-con crash meets career pivot. Tired in a good way, anxious in a productive way._
+
+## The Con, Concluded
+
+Saturday was the full sprint of CONpossible — costuming panels all day, the costume promenade winding through the entire convention space (other panels included, because why not), and then me up front emceeing the costume contest. I'd been apprehensive about even having a contest this year, but I lucked into the absolute best judges, and together we made it something welcoming and inclusive rather than a high-pressure formal affair. That shift in tone made all the difference.
+
+The evening capped off with a concert from the Dust Bowl Faeries, a wonderfully eclectic duo out of New York. Circus punk? Dark cabaret? I'm not sure what the right genre label is, but they were fantastic.
+
+Sunday the con rolled on until early evening, then transitioned into tear-down and the traditional "dead dog" party for volunteers and guests. My social battery was nearly flatlined by that point, but there's something restorative about unwinding with the people who put in the work to make something like this happen.
+
+## Sixteen
+
+Monday was Juniper's birthday — sixteen! We slept in as long as we could and still get the hotel room packed up by checkout, then headed to one of Juniper's favorite spots for a birthday lunch. Right up the street from the hotel is a largely Korean shopping center in Duluth, which sits in one of the most diverse areas in Georgia. Among the many eateries and shops there's an authentic and delicious hot pot place, the kind of meal that just doesn't exist anywhere in Athens. We browsed a Chinese mega-mart afterward, loaded up on things we can't find at home, and made it back exhausted and happy and very much not ready to return to work and school the next morning.
+
+## Re-Entry
+
+Tuesday was wall-to-wall meetings, catching up after an extra long weekend away. Among the many topics: the bombshell I'd dropped with the management team the previous week that I'll be leaving the company at the end of the month. As VP of Technology, my fingers are in all the pies, and it's going to take careful coordination to make sure I don't leave anyone or any project in the lurch. More on this in future weeknotes, I'm sure.
+
+The rest of the week was quieter — transition planning at work, slowly unpacking at home and resetting the workshop space from the tumultuous state I'd left it in while scrambling to get everything ready for the con. Also, a few ketamine treatments scattered through the week.
+
+## Thinking About
+
+How to hand off gracefully. There's a difference between "not leaving anyone in the lurch" and "making myself feel indispensable," and I'm trying to stay on the right side of that line.
+
+## What's Next
+
+More transition planning. Catching up on all the things that got deferred during con prep. Getting the workshop back into a state where I can actually find things.