The Get Options Podcast

Life Updates Kyle: Screw in the tire.  Adam: Work. College Tuition.  Beers. WordPress News WordCamp Asia will be in Bangkok, Thailand Changes Katie Richards is the community manager at Pantheon Dwayne McDaniel has started his own business Zack Skaggs has moved to ProctorU to be the Product Owner Afyia Smith is now an experience designer…

Updates  Kyle: Transportation woes.  Adam: Heat Wave w/NO AC downstairs.   Song: After Party Changes Mike Hale – joined impress.org as PM Song: Market consolidation Wearing/Drinking/Reading?  Adam:   Get Options Fitness t-shirt / Coffee  / Health insurance docs?!  Kyle: BlogVault WCEU Berlin t-shirt / French Press Coffee / Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Questions…

Updates Kyle: 10th wedding anniversary coming up. Any ideas? Adam: Staffing changes at CWP. Joe: Talk about WP Buffs + WPMRR stuff Supporter Spotlight #1 News Did you know… classicpress.net is still a thing.. active/current info/blog.    → The WordCamp Ann Arbor 2019 schedule is out Supporter Spotlight #2 Wearing/Drinking/Reading? Adam: Gravity Forms t-shirt /…

Life Updates Adam:  Summer in full swing. Summer time blues?  New camps to mentor assigned. Kyle:  Remove trees? News WordCamp Central America might happen WP Engine acquires Flywheel Ghost / Automattic bashing? Changes Tessa Kriesel joins CircleCI as Community Manager Wearing/Drinking/Reading Adam: WCUS  2016 / Coffee + Water  / Every Tool’s a Hammer – Adam…

Life Updates Kyle: I did not die on a boat. Dustin: “Survived” a tornado, well 12 to be exact. And my MacBook stopped charging WordPress News Happy Sweet Sixteen Wearing/Drinking Dustin:   Big W shirt /Water / Make Your Bed Kyle:  Host Duplex t-shirt, WordPress trucker cap/strawberry and cream tea / Knight Errant (A Star Wars…

Life Updates Kyle: Hi. I am in another country right now. It is fun. Adam: Graduation in a few weeks. College. Carson: Football? BackupSpeaker.com News:   Automattic acquires Prospress Changes Prospress acquired by Automattic Wearing/Drinking/Reading Adam: Code is Poetry shirt/ water / Freed to Lead Kyle: WCUS 2018 t-shirt / water / Path of Destruction…

Life Updates Dustin: Sabbatical / Vacation and work trip over / Time for house projects Adam: Daughter, Prom. /  BackupSpeaker.com / Adam taking vacation days. WordPress News Matt Launches new blog and podcast!  Distributed.blog Wearing/Drinking Adam:  GiveWP / Water // Mindset by Carol S. Dweck Dustin: Old School WOO // Protein Shake / Water // Basements Complete…

Life Updates Kyle: Spoke at career day at a local elementary school. Adam:  Had a storm?  //  signing NDA’s IP © stuff / oh.. And more fun…my daughter picked a college! / WC OC?   WordPress News PluginVulnerabilities.com is Protesting WordPress.org Support Forum Moderators by Publishing Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Wearing/Drinking Adam:  WC Raleigh 2019  / coffee…

Life Updates Kyle: Yay! Taxes were great this year. Adam: 2 week hiatus..   Good: WordCamp Raleigh.  Bad:  Pulled muscle/location!  Ugly: Taxes.   WordPress News A multitude of plugins with issues Duplicate page Pipdig Jetpack   Alex Vasquez ran into Matt Mullenweg in Japan. Changes Bethany Heck and Joshua Goldenberg join the A8C design team Tom McFarlin…

Life Updates Kyle: Having trouble with my ice maker and the family room painting project turned into quite the debacle. Adam: Just Working. Didn’t go to San Francisco.  Bought a 6TB HD to help consolidate all my old drives. Was interviewed on 2 podcasts. March Madness! WordPress News Disney + Fox merger Changes Christie Chirinos…

Life Updates: Kyle: All the snow has melted. Which means now I get to rake all the leaves I couldn’t get in time over the fall. 😒 Adam: Said no to a potential new client. Good feeling. Prepping for Corned Beef and cabbage! Changes: Raquel Landefeld now the Event Coordinator for Elegant Themes Wearing/Drinking Adam:…

Life Updates Kyle: Had a scary dream. Moving forward with WCA2 and WC Jackson. Accepting Speaker apps for WCA2. Adam: Back from WC PHX.  Loads of new work coming in. Good, bad? Busy. Managing client expectation.  Selling stuff. Chair. Desk. etc. WordPress News. WordPress 5.1 released. Wearing/Drinking/Reading? Adam:  Woo Ninja shirt, WC Chicago Hoodie, WCUS…

Life Updates Kyle: Today's Valentine's Day! Planning on doing something special for Ashley, shhhh don't tell her! Dustin: Dealing with a water main break in Dayton. Water supply is running low. Dehydration is setting in. Feeling delirious. What day is it. Wearing/Drinking/Reading? Dustin:   Blue WordPress University t-shirt / water / The Minimalist Home & Everyday Millionaires…

Life Updates Kyle: Awesome gig last night at Ironbark Brewery. Adam: 80f here. Then 35 Crazy!   /   Heading to AZ next week WordCamp! Wearing/Drinking/Reading? Adam:   MailChimp shirt. / coffee /   Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called “Alien” Kyle:  GoWP t-shirt, WordPress slippers / cappuccino / Harry Potter and the…

Life Updates Kyle: Planning a trip to Europe. 1 month. Adam: Biz. Good. Busy.  Speaking, Teaching next week. Sara: Brr, Cold—Low was -18 degrees! Didn’t leave the house from Monday-Wednesday. Started relationship podcast:  Changes Marieke van de Rakt is the new CEO of Yoast Daniel Bachhuber now works for Food Blogger Pro Eyvonne Elyane Myers –…

Life Updates Kyle:  planning travel for work events.  Taking pro active approach vs procrastination! Adam: Avalon is 5 for 5 for colleges. Met w/ listener for on boarding. Processes. Tara: Son off to CA for a new job.  Empty nester. Wearing/Drinking Adam:   Coffee / WPEngine Been /  Daily Stoic &  Atomic Habits Kyle:  Coffee / Prospress shirt+…

The Get Options Podcast – Episode 82 Life Updates Kyle: We committed to going on a big trip. Adam: More F3. More client work. No new domain/ideas launched this month just yet!  So there! WordPress News Matt posts new “leads” on the marketing team. Josepha and Yoast.  Congrats! We are going to WordCamp Dayton!  …

Life Updates Adam: “Joined” F3.  Sore. oh so sore! Dustin: Still unpacking boxes and house projects, installing smart home things, garage door openers. WordPress News WordPress 5.1 to Replace “Blogging” References with “Publishing” Changes Mendel GD to Geek Adventures Jeff Matson left Gravity Forms Wearing/Drinking Adam: WCUS 2017 shirt/water!  / Mindset Dustin: yellow Gutenberg shirt…

Life Updates Kyle: Played the worst game of poker I’ve ever played last night. But it all ended well. Adam:  Rain. Lots of Rain.  Still weird to see car missing from driveway..ala Avalon took it. Going to Join F3. WordPress News WordPress.com – national advertising/commercials to start 2019!  “Anything is possible” Kyle’s Latest Song over on…

Life Updates Adam:  Back from Cali.  Boys. Friends. Family. Good time. Kyle: Holidays with the family. Things are good. Changes Adam’s friend Jessica joined Automattic as Happiness Engineer Wearing/Drinking Adam:   WordPress Engine Beanie  / Coffee  / Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs Kyle:   LearnDash / Coffee  /  Harry Potter – 1st book This week we recapped…