Frameworks and Football

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.

From deployment systems to the Super Bowl at Sydne's

Events and activities that occurred on Sunday, February 08, 2026

The day started well before dawn, with a 4:30 wake-up that became a productive morning workflow session. The journaling process for Friday's entry came together quickly — plan, blog post, and DayOne entry all completed before most people had their first coffee. There's something satisfying about the early morning hours when the systems work flows without interruption.

The project management system received sustained attention throughout the day. The framework had been taking shape over the past week, and Sunday provided the uninterrupted stretches needed to push it further. A significant milestone was creating the Asset Management Project as a companion system, extending the organizational infrastructure beyond just tracking projects to tracking the underlying assets and resources they depend on. The deployment system also received focused work, hardening the mechanisms that keep master files and their deployed copies in sync.

A change of scenery led to the First Alternative Co-op, where coffee and continued systems work mixed with a growing awareness of why their café setup feels awkward. The food, coffee, and tables are all in the back of the store, but paying requires walking to the front registers, then walking back to actually sit down and eat. By the time the transaction is complete, the coffee is cooling and the food isn't getting any warmer. It's not a mystery so much as a design problem — there ought to be a better way to handle purchases when the consumption happens thirty yards from the checkout.

The bedroom shelving project got a bit more attention, continuing the incremental physical work that provides a counterpoint to the digital infrastructure building. Hands-on assembly offers a different kind of satisfaction than getting deployment scripts to behave.

Football at Sydne's

The afternoon shifted to the Super Bowl at Sydne's. Seattle pretty much owned the game, making for a comfortable watch with family. The gathering provided the kind of relaxed social connection that Sundays are built for — no agenda, just shared experience and the occasional reaction to a good play.

Business threads wove through the day as well. The Golden Bay Tour model releases went out via DocuSign, moving that photography project forward administratively while the creative side waits for the New Zealand trip itself.

The evening wound down with Formal Logic and a January 20th episode of the Late Show featuring Bernie Sanders. The episode landed during a particularly rich news cycle — Trump had just invaded Venezuela, was threatening Greenland, and was pouting about not receiving the Peace Prize — giving Colbert and Sanders plenty of material. Sanders provided a refreshingly sane old-guy contrast, and there's something effortless about satirizing a seventy-nine-year-old with the emotional maturity of a four-year-old. The logic content earlier in the evening fed a growing interest in structured reasoning; the late night television provided its opposite — loose, spontaneous, and fueled by absurdity that writes itself.

Sundays like this one have a particular rhythm — the early morning solitude for focused systems work, the midday shift to physical projects and errands, the afternoon surrender to family and spectacle. The management frameworks taking shape this week represent something worth noting: the infrastructure for tracking work is itself becoming work worth doing, each layer enabling clearer thinking about the next.