The New World of Lonnie Mandigo

SESIG with Larry—motorcycles, home energy systems. Deer hit car from Imagine Coffee—broke mirror housing, dented fender, still drivable. Merrique didn't find feedback useful. Cliffe progressing on KAI, needs to schedule pitch. Insurance claim—Caliber Collision, State Farm, phone, online. Lunch with Karen—daughter's wedding, decluttering complexities. Photo shuffling. Minecraft warehouse rework—project-focused model. Suds to test mirror repair, talked to Aaron. Zoom with Bob—tech debt, energy systems, security tools. Greatest Controversies—apostle stories. Hogan's Heroes. Star Trek. Late Show. Sleep.

Feedback for Merrique on Patreon site. Breakfast at Wise Cracks with Dan and Zelda. Applied the feedback to Merrique to my own site. Spent the rest of the day refining the Belo Retrato Photography plan. Walked to Suds with Tim, Jack, and Brian. Pizza there, Brian's ride home. Greatest Controversies then sleep. Woke at 11pm, had trouble falling back asleep. Got up, refined the Belo Retrato plan more. Eventually went back to sleep. A planning insight: Belo Retrato is not just me—it's an organization, an entity composed of component entities. A collaboration of a human (me), two AIs (Claude and Firefly), and significant model contributions. Recognizing this transforms messy into powerful. Great to be part of and even to lead a team. Hopefully the plan goes somewhere.

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Cleaned kitchen, cleaned mushrooms, prepared for Philomath Salon. Lumos Winery to see Debi's art. Vinwood Taphouse for lunch. Market of Choice for salon snacks. Photo shuffling throughout the day. Philomath Salon—learned about Bill's early astrophysics career, binary star measurement device, time around Nobel Laureates, later HP career. Pretty good evening. Dan and Zelda staying over. Got things mostly cleaned up before bed.

Slept in, vaccine hangover. Photo work—image ready to print, ran out of ink mid-print, ordered more. File copying for hours. Signed up for Aria's TinyBeans. Greenhouse Coffee + Plants—good service, tolerable vegan options, terrible Saturday parking, archaic metered system. Replied to Bob on Nate Hagen's deadly sins—sixth is anthropocentrism, seventh contradicts it. Dennis on contrasting epistemologies. Planning Friday shoot—window light portraits, composite overlays. Repository reorganization. Storm, backyard tree survived. Beautiful partial print. Tim at Suds, party that wasn't happening. Finished Brazil, Greatest Controversies, part of Star Trek.

SESIG in the morning with good turnout. Ginger's to look at trees she's giving away—downsizing, many plants need homes, adds urgency to garden planning. Dizzy Hen breakfast on way to Safeway—delicious, reminded me of grandmother's cooking. Safeway for flu and COVID vaccines. Pizza and beer with Brian and Tim at American Dream. Home for nap. Very rainy and stormy day. Photo work—repository reorganization and print portfolio. On the way to Suds, most vivid rainbow seen in years. Met Michael, Cathy, and Tim at Suds. Groceries from Winco on way home. Watched Brazil. Feeling the vaccine hit this morning—not very functional.