vol. 2, no. 22 | See you tomorrow, probably!

see you tomorrow, probably!,

                October 13, 2025

            vol. 2,  no. 22 | See you tomorrow, probably!

            Some workday this past week, Liz was leaving early for the day, and when saying goodbye to each of us the thing she said was see you tomorrow, probably!, in a slightly sing-songy way. We each sang it back to her, as we hugged or waved or high-fived, and it was a nice little musical interlude.
It was very cute (which you may remember is very important to us lately), but it also seemed to capture one of the things we really like about this place—one of the things we’ve been so lucky it’s become: it’s a place where you can expect to see the same people again. Probably.
I know not everyone gets to be here during the workday, but with the kinds of regular events we host we’ve been fortunate that we usually get to see the same people at the same events. So for some of us it’s see you tomorrow, probably!, and for others it’s see you next week or see you next month, probably!. And the consistency and stability and repetition is one of the things we do. It’s a place you can expect to find some company, and the same company enough times that you can probably become friends.
We’ve been talking (both off and on the record) about what this place is, and what it means to us, and it’s a little tricky to pin it down because it means different things to each of us and to everyone who’s a part of it, but here’s another definition for the pile: The Company is a place where you can sing-songily say see you tomorrow, probably!
—Ivan
Happenings
This week:
Glint: Flight, Tuesday, October 14
True, personal stories, told live, without notes. Pretty much exactly like The Moth, except without the competition, on Tuesdays instead of Fridays, and everyone knows each other (or is about to). The theme is “Flight“, and we’ve got a full set of tellers this month.
Hear from Emily R., me, Joe, Lauren S., Gabe, Anjali, Allyson, Madison, Jim, Lauren T., Case, and Fer.
$10, or free for tellers and members.
Come fly with us, let’s fly, let’s fly away →
Weekly Wednesday Worknight, Wednesday, October 15
The Company is about combining creative work with good friendships. Make an appointment with your side project this (or any) Wednesday at a Worknight, where we oscillate between enforced, focused, quiet time and optional chatty social time.
$5, free for Company and Moonlight members
Work together →
Ishmael Book Club, Thursday, October 16
Mark once read a book that still means a lot to him, and he’s hosting a book club about it. If you’re interested in joining, we’ll be reading Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, in three sections. The first to be discussed will be chapter 1–5.
Think mythologically →
Future Weeks:
In The Making, Thursday, October 23
In The Making is a showcase of original, amateur, creative works in progress, finally back after a season off! Are you interested in sharing about a passion project, and what you’ve been learning through it? We’ve got a lotta presenter spots left. Are you interested in just attending and learning about people’s creative work? We’ve got roughly forty spots left.
$10, or free for members and presenters.
Make an appearance →
Offsite: The Moth GrandSLAM, Friday, October 24
You’ve heard of The Moth. We tell you about it all the time, including a few paragraphs back! It’s the inspiration for Glint, though The Moth is a competition and Glint is not. There are 1–2 StorySLAMS a month here in Denver and the winners of those go on to compete at GrandSLAMs, held 0–1 times a year.
(A bunch of us recently went to a StorySLAM to support Allyson and Livvy telling—neither of them won but we all had so much fun cheering for them.)
Our friend Madeleine has won 2 (2!) StorySLAMS in the past 1–2 years, and she’ll be competing at the next GrandSLAM! We’re so excited for her, and a bunch of us will be going to support, and so should you.
$45
Watch a grand entrance →
The Third Annual Creative Coding Art Show, Saturday, October 25
Seeing it all laid out here this is a few really big events, all in a row. In our defense, we didn’t know about the GrandSLAM when we scheduled this art show! Norton’s had it scheduled for months, and has been working on it for even longer.
The third annual art show will gather and showcase artists and programmers exploring code as a creative medium, and will include so many cool and sometimes sentimental pieces.
I have been seeing glimpses of some of the pieces and I am so excited about it. If you’ve ever been to The Company ever before, you’ll probably appreciate at least one of the pieces quite a lot.
Art thou going to show up? →
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Also coming up: Death and All Her Friends (Oct 28), PowerPoint Party No. 32 (Nov 1).
Nostalgia
Do you remember The Final Punch Brunch? How we had so many donuts, and made so many entries, while Rudy sniffed about? That we celebrated the completion by punching each other in the face?
Do you remember that you planned multiple offsites in Japan and they were attended?
The first workday morning with Rudy? The lunch where we admired Dan’s new can design, and imagined all the ways we could tell him? That we discussed the merits of Deathhac? That we spoke of recurring dreams, and aired the dirty laundry of our car accidents?
How Liz

said

‘crapooski’??
Do you remember catching up about Jim’s trip to Japan? The sudden and speedy lunch visit from Alex in search of missing eyewear?
How we saved a parking space for Lexi by standing in car formation? That we helped her carry things in?
Or how Case and Jacob were introduced to each other via a Japanese article about fractals, and what a perfect introduction that was? That Case taught you about econometrics? How Worknight concluded with very late pizza?
Christof’s gift of freshly-baked banana bread? That Mark brought his mom by to show her the space?
That we discussed food deserts, and wondered what to call it when there is food around but it’s so expensive that it’s kind of not really available, and Ryan suggested the term ‘food mirage’? How he came by three workdays in a row? How the last workday lunch involved Jessica folding under pressure?
And do you remember The Second Annual Autumn Activity Day? How we sorted into cars, and staggered our arrivals? How we learned from last time and ate fewer donuts this time? That we saw the orange cat with the perfect stripey tail? Rebeca’s stylishly late and stylish appearance? While Sabrina wore a more functional outfit that aided with pumpkin identification? How we looked at flowers and animals, ate corndogs and pretzels, and selected produce? How Mark and his mom appeared near the end? How so much was the same as last year, but the group photos were twice as big?
That for some, the evening ended with spooky stories in a dark garden?
Bureaucratic Minutiae

Data from The Final Punch Brunch:
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We began the day with
- 5,636 punches already completed
- 1,058 of 1,260 punch cards completed
We ended the day with
- 8,224 punches completed
- All 1,260 of 1,260 punch cards completed
Totals      Punches     Cards
Jessica P:    1,983       213
Livvy:          817        18
Alex:           763        82
Will            409        60
Ivan:           367         8
Jessica S:      323        24
As of this writing
- 1,344 of 1,346 punch cards complete
- 8,817 punches complete
```

At Worknight: Ivan got laser trained; Case fixed doom pit accounting and worked on a workshop material submission; Madison found resources for two families; Allyson picked a new calendar and spent time [redacted]; Lizzie finished uploading Paperwork photos and worked on culling wedding photos; Ryan finished the payloads that were provisioning; Jacob worked on a population sim; Gus worked on getting points together; Jessica drew two petals; Norton uploaded and associated September time cards; Livvy worked on a dataviz; and Lexi switched to Tidal.
I have no memory if we actually did see Liz the next day. We didn’t see her today, but I’m pretty sure we’ll see her tomorrow, probably.
Finally, a reminder that The Company is a member-supported gathering place, and if you know any of us, you’re welcome to pop in any time for free (outside of events). If you know that one of us is here and you’d like to come by, reach out and we can let you in.

Photos
Two months ago Alex organized a Punch Brunch to help Norton process all the punchcard data we’ve been collecting for an art piece being created for The Third Annual Creative Coding Art Show. We didn’t get through all of them in one sitting, but it was so much fun (in Alex’s words “its levity and mirth are legendary”). To finish up the effort, Alex organized The Final Punch Brunch, and we successfully got completely caught up, until the September punchcards got scanned in.
For a thematically appropriate celebration we all punched each other in the face.
Mild Salsa Class No. 8.
We have a Discord server for members and friends of The Company, in which many of our unofficial events and offsites get planned. A few weeks ago, Jim posted in the #seeking-buy-in channel the suggestion that some folks meet up for dinner with him and Katie. While many of us couldn’t make it ALL THE WAY TO JAPAN (even though one week is definitely a reasonable amount of time to plan with), Case figured out how to make it.
Norton is a part-time artist’s assistant to Jim, and is here seen reviewing a part list and shipment for a piece Jim will be showing at The Third Annual Creative Coding Art Show.
Beth and her friends were also able to join Jim and Katie in Japan on another night.
Working on The Third Annual Creative Coding Art Show sure is a lot of work! Here you can see Head Curator, Norton J. King, taking some time at recess to catch his breath.
Others of us at recess.
Lexi is a well-known recovering hoarder, and in an attempt to live a healthier and more minimalist life here in Denver she has started dispossessing herself of certain superfluous items. Jim, freshly back from getting dinner in Japan, helped Norton unload a few dozen boxes from her car.
Case, also freshly back from getting dinner in Japan, came straight to recess.
This is Jacob’s first time meeting Case! Jacob lived in Japan for a lil bit (where he too got dinner) and talked with Case about this Japanese art publication. Photo by Livvy.
Star Ceremony setup.
Another recess.
I go to a monthly type meetup in Boulder called Type Meetup, and the night before this photo we learned how to make origami letters and it was so hard! At lunch on this day Livvy showing off about how she already knew how to make origami letters, which led to Jessica trying really really really hard to figure out how Livvy made an accordion-y W.
Lizzie has a tradition of doing a yearly Autumn Activity Day where she goes to cute orchards and pumpkin patches, and last year she invited a bunch of us to join her at it. This year she invited a bunch of us again, and it was again a very popular offsite. Here she is helping divide people up into the different cars.
And this is her giving us the go-ahead to depart and us cheering for all the great logistics.
Stop 1 of 2: YA YA Farm & Orchard, where we bought apple cider donuts, apples, caramel apples, and apple butter.
Getting organized for a group photo.
We have a tradition here that any time people accidentally match we take a photo.
This same cat was here last year! I’m sorry I didn’t get a good photo of its very good tail.
Most of us met up at The Company to carpool over, but Rebeca joined us at YA YA.
Stop 2: Rocky Mountain Pumpkin Patch, where we looked at pumpkins, ate corn dogs, looked at animals, bought produce, and addressed the streak of existential intros.
Livvy pointed out that this sign nicely suggests a tradition—that this is a place one might go to every fall, that you might have it as a kind of checkpoint. I feel rather confident that Jacob was this same number of pumpkins tall last year, and will be next, but he wasn’t with us last year so we should probably go back next year to be absolutely certain.
On that note: we have a group picture at this same train from last year. And the train last year was not as crowded. Photo by a kind stranger.
There’s a refrigerated room at the pumpkin patch that you can walk into to shop for produce, and it so much more fun to use the fettuccini door than the regular doors. All watermelons—no matter how big they are—are $3!
Mark and his mom, Manal, met us at the pumpkin patch!
A cornucopia of friends. Photo by Manal.
Michelle organized a Ghosts in the Gardens outing! Photo by Lizzie.
The Ghosts in the Gardens crew. Photo by Sarah’s mom, Mary, a regular reader of Paperwork.
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This issue of Paperwork was written by Ivan with additional reporting from Jessica S., and was shot by Ivan, Case, Beth, Livvy, a stranger, Lizzie, Manal, and Mary. Photo selection and editing by Ivan and Jessica S. Editorial support was provided by Livvy and Norton. This issue, and The Company itself, was made possible by the support of our members, Halie, Drew, Justin, Mason, Lexi, José, Mary Ann, Trevr, Allyson, Lizzie, Melissa, Elijah, Michelle, Jim, Jaime, Jacob, Mark, Sabrina, Beth, Dani, Chris, Will, Marcia, Rebeca, Sarah, Alex, Jessica P., Jessica S., Mike, Ben, Sam, Liz, Christof, and our newest member, Ryan.
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