diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-20-state-of-dti-2024.md b/_posts/2024-09-20-state-of-dti-2024.md
index f1e4e32..591cb4d 100644
--- a/_posts/2024-09-20-state-of-dti-2024.md
+++ b/_posts/2024-09-20-state-of-dti-2024.md
@@ -21,9 +21,10 @@ After 15 years of DTI (what the heck??!), and 15 years of changing
 circumstances, **our primary focus is keeping DTI around for the long-haul**.
 
 And, I'll be real with ya, the choices I made in earlier times weren't really
-designed for decades of operation 😅
+designed for decades of operation 😅 (DTI I think is now officially older than I
+was when I started it? 🤐)
 
-- When I started DTI, I wasn't really uhh, good at working with others? So I
+- Back at the start, I wasn't really uhh, good at working with others? So I
   never put together a formal team, and I built a codebase that was difficult to
   share.
 - And when we rebooted as Impress 2020, I borrowed the technology and design
@@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ beyond just DTI 😭 So, I didn't discover issues quickly; and when I _did_, it
 would sometimes take a few hours, or even days, to become available.
 
 When I was younger, it was easier to be on-call all the time… now, we have to be
-smarter about it. So, we're being smarter!
+smarter about it. So, hey—we're being smarter!
 
 - **🔔 Alerts:** We've set up automated notifications to tell us when the site
   goes down, or when a new kind of crash appears. _(If you're curious, we're
@@ -78,7 +79,7 @@ Right now, Dress to Impress is a weird combination of apps… I copy-pasted some
 of Impress 2020's best UI changes over, but it all still used the Impress 2020
 _server_ code, even when you're on `impress.openneo.net`.
 
-This both doubled the danger of downtime (if _either_ app goes down, that's a
+This both doubled the danger of downtime (if _either_ server goes down, that's a
 problem for both!), and added networking complexities that are hard to track
 down (hello, "error loading species/color"!)
 
@@ -132,7 +133,7 @@ and monitoring,** which just weren't happening on their own.
 too**—though we didn't end up building all of the integrated elements we were
 hoping for. _(We were planning an "Add all to cart" NC Mall link, as a time
 saver for folks, and a way to help TNT know that DTI helped you out.)_ Ah,
-well—that's product work! I hope it's been helpful in this form, too!
+well—that's product work! I hope it's been helpful in this form, too 💝
 
 **Right now, we're on a bit of a pause,** as TNT's dev team focuses on the Void
 Within plot and the other things on their plate. But our next plan is to look
@@ -154,5 +155,5 @@ promise I'm giving the community the best I know how to give, always 💜)_
 ### As always, thank you!
 
 I hope this plan makes sense, as just one guy doing her best to keep the site
-online! And I hope this work can help set the stage for more people to join in
-the coming years, too.
+online! And I hope this work can help set the stage for more people to join our
+team of maintainers in the coming years, too.