The New World of Lonnie Mandigo

Morning routine. Studio teardown. Window scarves rolled and put away. Voice requests reaching the home agent. Website moved behind Cloudflare. Walk at Fitton Green with the Z50. Marys Peak through layered ridges. Design thinking on the trail. Evening at the Wheel with Sage.

Morning routine. Journaled Friday. Drove to Albany with Sydne and her Subaru. Pho at Ba's. Stopped at Annette's. Fire cider at Sydne's. Booked a Puerto Vallarta stay for friends. December trip shifts to Cancún. Six personal records at the gym. Voice walk to Suds. Dinner at El Palenque.

Morning routine. Journaled Thursday. SESIG on fitness tracking, the election aftermath, data centers, and energy economics. Server upgrades. A timeshare call for Brian's trip. Puerto Vallarta planning. A walk beside Bald Hill. Mushroom photos from the grandkids. Block 15 with Michael, Mary, and Jen.

Morning routine. Worked on the Philomath Salon talk. Set up new AirPods. Bus downtown to meet Tom at Old World Deli for the recorder. Dinner at Common Fields with family and friends. The Umbra Vipera album release at Old World Deli. The Fifth Element. A data center talk takes shape, and a family night out ends at Sam's show Events and activities that occurred on Saturday, October 24, 2026 Most of the day went into the talk I'm giving at Sunday's Philomath Salon, "What a Place Can Carry." Its argument is that whether a data center is good or bad for a town depends less on how big it is than on how big it is compared with the place that hosts it. A deck is never really finished the day before a talk, but by Saturday this one had reached the stage where each pass made it a little sharper instead of a little different. Between sessions at the desk I set up a new pair of AirPods Pro with their hearing-assistance mode. It's a small thing that matters more than I...

Morning routine. Rack install. Birthday lunch at Pastini with Sydne and Deaken. Ulta and Guardian Games. A visit with Sage and Tree at The Wheel. A nap. Walked to Suds for pizza and Antarctica planning with Tim. Set up a shared Antarctica calendar. More Spy Game. A rack settles down, a birthday lunch, and Antarctica comes into focus Events and activities that occurred on Thursday, October 22, 2026 The morning belonged to the equipment rack. After a week of shuffling power cords and replacing a storage unit that had quietly died, the new pieces finally settled into place. There is a particular satisfaction in infrastructure that stops asking for attention, and the rack is getting close to that point. The real test came afterward, when a backup job that had faltered during the migration recovered on its own overnight, which is exactly what a well-built system should do. Midday turned to family. Sydne and Deaken picked me up for a birthday outing that started with lunch at Pastini. We...

Morning routine. Planned the day. Published "Running Below the Nameplate." Grocery run. Reworked the data center slides around carrying capacity. Talked the Salon talk through while editing. Leisurely walk to Suds, mapping the route. Gracie behind the bar. Walk home. Rebuilding a talk around carrying capacity, then walking it off at Suds Events and activities that occurred on Sunday, October 18, 2026 The morning opened with publishing "Running Below the Nameplate," the post about derating, and by midday it had also earned a place in my story collection. The idea at its center, that a part rated for one load should run below its nameplate when conditions turn harsh, has stopped being a metaphor and become a way of running my days. Most of the day belonged to the Philomath Salon talk, now a week away. I rebuilt the data center slides around carrying capacity, so that it became the spine of the argument instead of one point among several, with The Dalles, Memphis a...

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. 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. 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.

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. 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 ritual, listened to Net Assessment episode on China. Fixed breakfast, packed camera for beach. Did two sets of planks. Exchanged text messages with Loni and Leland. Drove to the coast with Annette—weather was windy and rainy. Reminisced about drives we took as kids. She talked about her cat Rowan, exploring options for new place to live, Kennewick an interesting option. Ate lunch at the Blue Whale in Yachats. We came home, gave Annette the spider plant starts, she left, I took a nap. Discovered some photos I'd missed from Mexico trip. Worked on key wording in photo library. Sydne, Dakota, Deaken, and Koa came over, played the game 22, we ate Chinese food delivered by Doordash. Watched most of an Ancient World episode on the Maya. It's Christmas Day. The dawn is beautiful. It was a good day with family. I love them all.