The New World of Lonnie Mandigo

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.

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. 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. 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.

Beautiful sunrise this morning. Morning routine. Went for lab work. Ran errands. Scanned mail. KAI conversation with Ameerah. Processed email. Exercised. Household chores. Suds with Tim and Jack. Played Minecraft. New Zealand adjustments—considering eliminating Queenstown leg.

Book club meeting—scheduling conflicts with upcoming meetings, Dec. 18 is a popular day. Disassembled photo studio. KAI discussion—set objective to give presentation on Jan. 10, 2026. Turkey broth in fridge—should cook down further, make paste. Minecraft—built most of rail bed between Porto Alegre and Telluride. Bus to Squirrels. Met Dave, marine biologist at OSU, discussed living in Corvallis and commuting to Newport. Chatted with Steve—pondered analogy and metaphor with respect to AI reasoning, no clear conclusions yet. Steve brought me home. Ancient Civilizations—Han Dynasty overview.