A man in the Florida panhandle once drove to Miami and back with a tape recorder and mailed himself a course. Friday I've got five hours to Texas and a phone.
To Miami and Back
The Hunting Trip
A guy at church asked whether AI could pull the rabbit trails out of his meetings. I told him in five minutes. On the drive home my wife pointed out I'd just demonstrated the thing I've been building all year.
The Workbench
I didn't have it in me to mow, my wife called off the gym, and I did two small things instead — a vacuum that took ten minutes and a workbench I can finally see the top of.
Baseboards
I can cut trim. I've done it before, the math makes sense, and I still got flustered — because it had been years. So I took pictures of the corners and asked for the cuts.
A Fixed Point
I listened back through a book that mattered to me in my twenties and it went flat. Then a book I'd bounced off years ago opened up. A book is a fixed point. You are not.
