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☀️ 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.

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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.

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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 💪

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☀️ 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”

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🌤️ Grateful Log for Saturday, October 3, 2026

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

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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.

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Spinning tonight

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☁️ 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

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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/ 🎉

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

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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.

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

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🥃 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.

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😴 Travel days wipe me out!

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foggy on the mountain this morning.

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☕️ 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.

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

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☀️ Grateful Log for Thursday, July 23, 2026

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

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☁️ 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.

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😴 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.

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I appreciated this devotional very much: From Death to Life, and All of Grace

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And now, time for rest.

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• Sequence -> Stories
• Issues -> Chapters
• Broadcasts -> Letters

Happy with this progression.

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I’ve been writing letters, “Issues”, for this in preparation for launching, and that time is soon I think. You can drop your email onto the form and I’ll let you know when it is ready! Calling it The Long Way.

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🍿 family movie night tonight!

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📋 New task logged: Letters From Paul → aaronaiken.me/tools/tasks/

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☀️ opting to take advantage of this sunny sunday by sitting out in the sun, reading a book, and sipping on something cool and refreshing.

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☁️ Grateful Log for Thursday, July 9, 2026

1. A wise bedtime last night (10pm…better than 2:30am)
2. Feeling rested and clear this morning
3. Creating

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☕️ Been a while since doing so, which is not good: sitting down with coffee and writing before getting into my day.

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📋 New task logged: Tidy Away → aaronaiken.me/tools/tasks/

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