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Finally, some time to write and publish :-)

🌤️ Grateful Log for Tuesday, October 13, 2026

1. Yesterday’s family walk to brunch
2. Reading before bed
3. My new M5 MacBook Pro worked like a champ during my abbreviated work day yesterday (my previous M2 Air would have done its usual choking).

🌤️ Grateful Log for Monday, October 12, 2026

1. Solid sleep last night
2. The falling leaves (Summer is my favorite, but Autumn is a close second)
3. Packers victory over the Bears yesterday 🏈

☕️ First cup of coffee is always drip from a single cup machine we have. Cups two and three are both french press. Have been doing it this way for longer than I can remember and it has yet to get old or feel overdone. It always seems just right.

🌧️ Grateful Log for Sunday, October 11, 2026

1. A rainy Sunday
2. Great sleep
3. Having a few minutes yesterday to get my mic setup again for regular use

☀️ Grateful Log for Friday, October 9, 2026

1. A day of mostly able to focus…mostly
2. COFFEE!!! 🤪
3. The shining sun

☕️ power nap ftw. more coffee now.

The day, rather focused. And yes, Christmas music. Chill in the air this morning inspired it :-)

☀️ Grateful Log for Thursday, October 8, 2026

1. Up before my alarm, time to be before the day gets going
2. The various forms of creating
3. Solving difficult problems with simple solutions

☕️ not enough coffee today. Water now, but then another cup. It is absolutely a part of how I focus best, with a hot cup of coffee.

☀️ Grateful Log for Wednesday, October 7, 2026

1. Solid sleep, to bed last night on time
2. Up early, with my alarm, as a result
3. Fresh starts.

Had some time to do some writing this evening (on my new MacBook Pro, so that was a nice keyboard exercise). Felt good to do so! Eager to shift into that more as the making side of me calms down.

Very necessary upgrade. M2, 2022 MacBook Air 8 GB memory 512 GB HD → 16 inch M5 Pro, MacBook Pro, 48 GB memory 1 TB HD. This thing is an absolute beast compared to the Air. Good to be back on a Pro 💪

☀️ Grateful Log for Tuesday, October 6, 2026

1. Long running timers
2. Beta tester feedback for both Cloudbase and Still Dark yesterday
3. The health motivation I current have, not just “be healthy”

🌤️ Grateful Log for Saturday, October 3, 2026

1. COFFEE!!!
2. Blue sky, the one outside
3. Saturday mornings

man. coming across videos from a few years ago. the leather work i did. in such a different place now, on so many levels and ways, but can remember that feeling like it was just a few minutes ago.

Spinning tonight

☁️ Grateful Log for Friday, October 2, 2026

1. A successful migration from Project Online to Project server last week, fully validated this week
2. Launched Cloudbase
3. Still Dark in TestFlight

Still need to write that blog post, but today has been insane, in a good way. Finally have the private (but open) beta for Cloudbase up and running. This one is my baby. https://cloudbase.day/ 🎉

On my list for today: writing…blogging…publishing…been too long.

Quite! a crisp 52*F when I woke up this morning. Seasons lately seem to just show up, not a slow ramp into the change.

☕️ early start to the day, which i’m not mad about.

🥃 Hoping for a few moments this evening to sit on the couch with a glass of bourbon and zero input or output. No work. No writing. No reading. No watching. Just being.

😴 Travel days wipe me out!

foggy on the mountain this morning.

☕️ up earlier than I wanted to be but feeling rested, and so here I am! First cup of coffee brewed and now sitting down to write.

☕️ trying to tie up some loose ends this morning. Coffee outside is nice.

☀️ Grateful Log for Thursday, July 23, 2026

1. Family laughs
2. Space for clarity
3. Watching birds fly

☁️ Grateful Log for Tuesday, July 21, 2026

1. Making progress on cutting down and removing the half of the tree that fell over the weekend.
2. Making things.
3. Learning.

😴 we had a bad storm Saturday night, split the one tree we have in our backyard, so Sunday afternoon was cutting down what I could. Woke up tired this Monday morning! More to cut down today and tomorrow.