The New World of Lonnie Mandigo

March 2026 I didn't live in the early 1900s. That's obvious, but it matters for what I'm about to say, because there's a kind of knowing that only comes from being inside a moment — from the texture of daily optimism, the particular flavor of a culture's confidence in itself. I can read about it. I can look at the photographs, the architecture, the World's Fair pavilions. But I can't feel what an educated American felt in 1908, waking up in a country clearly on the rise, watching the newspapers carry dispatches from a Europe busily, almost eagerly, destroying itself. What I can do is notice that I might be living the mirror image of that moment — from a different seat.

Morning routine—except there was no morning. International Date Line crossing. Christchurch arrival. Beer and bureaucracy. Nelson flight. Johnny Trousers. Cathedral gardens. Oysters at Sprig & Fern. Whiskey discoveries at Kismet.

Morning routine. Picked up rental car. Lunch at Benchwarmers. Deployment system refinements. Google Workspace MCP expansion. PhotoPrism storage discovery. New Zealand trip finalization. Formal Logic. For We Are Many audiobook.

Morning routine. Published previous day's blog post. Completed journal. Networking troubleshooting. Apple MCP infrastructure work. PhotoPrism deployment. Sage's 21st birthday celebration at Squirrels and Block 15.

Morning routine. Dan Carlin podcast. Coffee with Jim at Coffee Culture. Journaling session. Walk to Winco for travel supplies. Phone call with Sage on her birthday. Evening beers with Michael, Tim, and Cathy at Suds. Late conversation with Steve about AI agents and market dynamics. Mission Impossible and The Saint.

Morning routine. SESIG face-to-face at Imagine Coffee. Databases and technical conversations. MFF Management Team meeting covering legal strategy and property maintenance. Pre-packing for New Zealand. Exercise session. Yoga. Hot tub. Formal Logic lecture.

Morning routine. Google Workspace MCP architecture rebuild. Wool detergent research. Lunch with Tom at Squirrels. Suds Monday with Tim and Jack. Hot tub and audiobook. Pre-packing for New Zealand.

Morning routine. AI environment work. Photography session with Joey. OSU Gymnastics meet. Suds for pizza. Impromptu Block 15 reunion with Michael and Mary. Formal Logic episode.

Morning routine. SESIG meeting. Photo studio preparation. Joey arrived for portrait session. Backpack distribution figured out. Lunch at McMenamins Pub. Surprise meetup with Tim and Brian at Squirrels. Beer:30 at Suds. Portrait photos at home. Dinner at McMenamins Monroe.

Morning routine. Plan Today completed. Cliffe call on KAI matters. AI Infrastructure wrestling. Book Club on Melanie Mitchell's AI book. Ashley catch-up and converter tool triumph. Skipped yoga. Suds & Suds walk. Lyft home. Formal Logic.

Morning routine. Published previous day's blog post. Deployment system marathon. Gwen chat about AI writing tools. Sprint review turned smoker discussion. Exercise. Swan Dive dinner with Steve. Alexander the Great podcast.

Morning routine. Published yesterday's blog post. Chili breakfast. Technical infrastructure work. SESIG at the coffee shop. Fixed living room shelves. New Zealand trip logistics finalized. Goblet squats and yoga. Watched Formal Logic and The Avengers.

Morning routine. Deployment system work. Fitton Green hike with weighted vest. Solo Suds Monday on Pliny the Younger night. Queen's Chopstick adventure. New Zealand trip logistics. Formal Logic. Classic Star Trek.

Morning routine. Early journaling session. Project management and asset management system development. Coffee and systems work at the First Alternative Co-op. Deployment system refinements. Bedroom shelving. Super Bowl at Sydne's. Golden Bay Tour releases. Formal Logic.

Morning routine. Early morning technical sprint. Journaling yesterday. Organized JRMBC AI series schedule. Resent SESIG notes. Grocery run and an unexpected encounter. Walked to Suds. Organizational model brainstorming. Formal Logic. Mission Impossible.

Morning routine. SESIG meeting. Email infrastructure reorganization. Gmail label system work. Stud finder lesson at Ace Hardware. Second bedroom shelf installed. Planks. Beer:30 at Suds. Formal Logic. The Avengers.

Morning routine. Discovered broken infrastructure at dawn. Complete rebuild of Google Workspace automation across eight working sessions. Built a bedroom shelf. Eye doctor visit. CHON Topics on Tesla patents and AI in space. Book Club scheduling. Slayden Homes tree consultation.

Morning routine. Day planning. SESIG discussion. Automation work. First Tuesday lunch. Continued email summarization. Upper Hand appointments. Google workspace integration. Minecraft gaming. Beer at Suds.

Morning routine. System optimization work. Journaling Sunday's activities. Hand surgery scheduling. Eye doctor appointment scheduling. Physical therapy scheduled. Pre-New Zealand exercises. Walked to Suds Monday. Burning Man conversations. Jack's ride home. Formal Logic lecture. The Saint episode.

Morning routine. Journaling at Stumptown. Lunch with Felipe discussing social networks and HP dynamics. Weekly review system development. Retrospective refinement. Monday Suds with group covering Vegas trips and Werner von Braun play. Formal Logic lecture on truth-functional logic.

Morning routine. Drive to Vancouver. Quality time with Fernanda, TC, Elisangela, and Fabio. Neighborhood walk. Drive to Portland Airbnb. Evening exploring the neighborhood. Beers at Hinterland. Mediterranean dinner. EDM at Scoreboard with cousin Patrick.

Morning routine. SESIG meeting spanning 3D scanning to locomotive restoration. Exercise. Amazon order extraction progress. Editing photos from Joey's December shoot. Beer:30 with familiar faces. Formal Logic lecture on syllogisms.

Waking at Valley River Inn. Drive home with audiobook. Cat feeder chaos. CHON Topics on batteries and materials science. Cliffe meeting with KAI proxy breakthrough. Amazon transaction scraping. Exercise and yoga. Evening conversation at Suds.

Morning routine. Automation debugging. Deployment system refactoring. Cancelled meetings. Spontaneous pizza in Monroe. Jam session in Eugene. Valley River Inn overnight.

Morning routine. SESIG with Jim at Imagine Coffee. Lunch with Karen. Book club rescheduling. Exercise routine. Walked to the grocery store. Yin yoga. Evening conversation with Bob about technology and civilization. Watched Formal Logic and The Avengers.

Morning routine. Upper Hand and Dr. Tsai appointments. Breakfast with Zelda. Ontological cleanup work. Book Club scheduling via Doodle. KAI proxy project initiated. Minecraft infrastructure completion. Weighted vest walk to Suds. Beer with Brian, Jack, and Tim.

Morning routine. Weekly Review at Coffee Culture. Dan Carlin on Alexander the Great. OSU gymnastics meet with Rajeev. Minecraft with Leland. Philomath Salon on emerging adulthood. Book Club announcement. Hot tub reflections.

Joey photo shoot at Fayetteville Road. Ian Page's CHON discussion on biocompatible plastics and self-assembling proteins. Minecraft transit building.

Morning routine. SESIG discussing autonomous driving, 3D scanning for preservation, and retirement reflections. Ordered Melanie Mitchell's AI book for Book Club and began listening. Minecraft transportation networks. Emma's autobiography. Beer:30 conversations.

Morning routine. Session workflow optimization improvements. Read Emma's book chapter on puberty challenges. Automated the "set up tomorrow" workflow. Leland conversation about building Titanic in Minecraft. Minecraft progress connecting Port Alegre to Lelandhome. Yin yoga. Documentation refinement.

Morning workflow refinements. Jim at Imagine Coffee on galleries and Gmail tools. Lunch with Sydne and Dakota at Swan Dive. Walk and talk with Rajeev on Book Club logistics. Weighted vest walk to Suds. Evening gathering with Tim, Cathy, Michael, Mary, and Kim. Andromeda Sprint Review showcasing personal workflows. Early evening wind-down.

Morning routine. SESIG discussion on fabrication and AI training. Google Contacts MCP development. Exercise and documentation work. Philomath Salon response on intelligence and leadership. Minecraft infrastructure. Walk to Suds for pizza. Yin Yoga. Formal Logic lectures on validity and soundness.

Morning routine. Bookmark organization. MCP server development. Ian and Emma meeting on scenario planning and New Zealand travel. Minecraft with Leland and Brian. Walk to Suds. Beer:30 with Tim and Jack discussing insulation and electrification. MCP documentation. Emma's book. Flash Gordon. Late night.

Morning routine. Breakfast for Loni's family. Farewell walk with Wolfe and Bell. Weekly review work. Watched Machiavelli video. Pre-New Zealand exercises. Minecraft with Leland. Walk to Suds. Beer with Mary, Cathy, and Tim. Book club email coordination.

Morning ritual. Leland's egg-in-a-hole breakfast collaboration. Dakota's birthday celebration with finger foods and conversations about generational intelligence. Family time with Loni, Sam, and the boys. Pizza, 102 Dalmatians, bedtime stories, Minecraft in the Cassia world.

Morning routine. SESIG included discussing Mike's retirement and Agilent acquisition. Belo Retrato post. Photo studio disassembly. Kitchen cleaning. AI infrastructure migration. Exercise. Loni and Sam arrived. Family dinner at Tacovore. Stories with Wolfe.

Morning routine. Book Club discussing Project Hail Mary . Automation work on email summaries. Equipment rack power installation. Photo studio setup. Philomath Salon scheduled. Joey visit with sushi and photo shoot. Hot tub soak.

Morning struggles and late sleep. MacOS upgrade and laptop cleanup. Daily workflow refinement. Claude-to-Gemini email delegation. Sprint review with Jerry. Gymnastics ticket transfer. Photo tagging. Exercise. Walk to Queen's Chopstick for dinner. Conversation with Brenda about Dan.

Morning ritual. Learned of Dan's passing. SESIG discussion with Jim Cole about death and photography. Made difficult phone calls. Photo library rebuild. Workflow refinements. Monday Suds with Burner group. Classic television.

Morning routine. Workflow refinement. Raspberry Pi setup. Kitbag session with Cliffe and Ameerah. Joey arrived. NZeta application. TSA pre-check. Lunch in Albany. Staples appointment. Backpack shopping. Walk to Suds. Hogan's Heroes.

Morning routine. Coffee Culture Annex working on weekly review and daily planning. Updated template structure. Fiddled with email account views. Refined morning workflow documentation. Yard work—compost bin repair, firewood splitting. Hot tub maintenance. Exercise. Market of Choice. Sydne's house playing Space Base, port, stinky cheese. Assembled ldmrp03 hardware.

Morning routine. Long workflow refactoring session. Mac file access troubleshooting. NFS setup between Synology and Mac. Mac upgrade to Tahoe. NFS breakthrough. Emma's book review. Nap. Exercised. Walk to Suds. Winco groceries. Project Hail Mary audiobook. Hot tub. Sherlock Holmes, Outer Limits, Hogan's Heroes.

Morning routine with process refinements. SESIG discussion ranging from NIH research to data center impacts. Daily workflow development. Kitchen cleaning. Server setup challenges. MCP server enhancements. Filesystem sandbox instantiation. Photography work. Exercise. Beer:30 at Block 15. Suds with Tim. Hot tub. Outer Limits.

Morning routine. Book Club discussing Project Hail Mary. Information architecture work. Applied for NZeta. Technical troubleshooting and upgrades. Exercised. Yoga signup. Hot tub with audiobook. History of the Ancient World finale.

Morning routine. Philosophical conversation with Jim at Coffee Culture about Michael Levin's work, consciousness, and photo portals. Paul stopped by. Dentist appointment. Beer at Suds with Tim. Andromeda Sprint Review with Mark discussing MCPs and Boston Dynamics robots. Exercised.

Morning routine. SESIG face-to-face. First Tuesday Lunch discussing Venezuela and AI trust. Afternoon work on annual planning. Exercised. Fernanda catch-up covering travel, work, and future plans.

Morning routine. MCP installation. Personal taxonomy refinement. Monday Suds with friends. Bob Taylor conversation ranging from Isaac Asimov to billionaire bunkers.

Morning routine. Read Heather Cox Richardson on Trump. Created last week's retrospective. Worked on December retrospective system. Ate Cup o' Noodles. Worked on planning/journaling system—installed Brain MCP server on desktop. Rajeev postponed due to illness. Hit Claude session limit at 1pm. Got fetch.com referral from Loni. Scanned Mexico vacation documents. Drove to Suds for a beer with Michael, Mary, Tim, Cathy—Michael heading to NYC tomorrow. Watched Ancient Civilizations on Tang dynasty, Star Trek (Spock's Brain ending, Romulan cloaking device beginning), Hogan's Heroes.

Morning routine. Laundry. Conversation with Cliffe. KAI work. Updated ldmsvr01—discovered storage cache controller issue, ordered replacement battery. Cleaned up Google Drive. Refilled bird feeder. Folded laundry, listened to Wisdom . Exercised. Walked to McMenamins, saw Sage, had a beer and a sandwich. Walked to Suds, had a beer. Ubered home. Watched Ancient Civilizations on Tang dynasty China, then Hogan's Heroes.

Woke at 4am. New Zealand planning. Morning routine. Drove to Breitenbush with Cathy and Mary. Circuit of pools, sauna, cribbage. Beet soup at lunch reminded me of Joey's pink soup. Medicine wheel tubs. River walk. Drove home, napped in back seat. Suds—learned the word "retox." Saw Krys. Finished Ancient Civilizations lecture on Rome. Watched The Late Show.

Morning routine. Resolution Run 5K walk with Michael in the rain. Fixed a sandwich, listened to Wisdom audiobook. Cleaned up birthdays in Contacts. Called about Christchurch reservation. Studio cleanup. Napped. Exercised. Watered plants, stocked beer. Evaluated photos from yesterday's shoot. Steve came over—pizza and wide-ranging conversation. Watched half of Ancient Civilizations lecture.

Morning routine. Coffee Culture Annex for day planning—tried the quiche Lorraine. Wide-ranging conversation with Jim. Photo shoot setup. Calendar work. New Zealand prep. Arranged Breitenbush drive. Exercised. Photo shoot with Joey. New Year's Eve celebration at Michael and Mary's. Edited and posted images.