Notes about my work, projects, training, and life.
Dinner with my wife and son at one of our favorite Chinese spots.
After that, I stopped by my parents’ house and ended up sitting there talking with them for more than an hour.
No projects. No laptop. No rushing around.
Just family time.
That’s what this evening has been about.
The rain finally stopped, so I took the opportunity and hit the road.
4.77 miles later, run complete.
No wet run required after all.
Sometimes the sky eventually gets the message.
I’m just trying to get a run in today, and apparently the sky has other plans.
It will not stop raining.
At this point, I might just have to quit waiting for better conditions, suck it up, and get out there for a wet one.
Could be worse. I’ve run in dumber weather.
“I know, but…”
That’s the sentence that kept me stuck.
The PERIOD Code ends it.
Ownership. Purpose. Resilience. Integrity. Discipline. Empowerment.
Six values. No excuses after them.
The Code is not perfection. It is commitment.
Starting day 3 of exploring what else is out there in AI.
Claude Opus is still grinding away like a champ on my modernization project.
And Grok Bots? They kick the ass of the one Dot I’m allowed on ChatGPT.
OpenAI, I do love you. I’ve built a lot of my workflow around your tools.
But right now, you’ve got some catching up to do.
Pain does not mean you are going backward.
Recovery does not promise a life without grief, disappointment, stress, or hard seasons.
Sometimes life simply hurts.
The standard is not to panic and treat every painful moment like evidence that recovery is failing.
Feel it. Face it. Keep moving.
Pain is part of being alive.
It is not regression.
https://jimlunsford.com/recovery-standard-pain-is-not-regression/
My little AI experiment is escalating quickly.
Claude has officially taken over one of my projects, and so far it’s doing a nice job.
Since I was already experimenting, I gave Gemini a shot. It failed for me on a couple of levels, so I moved on.
Next up was Grok.
I liked it enough that I ended up buying a subscription there too.
Apparently I’m running my own little AI bake-off now.
I love ChatGPT. It has helped me in more ways than I can count.
Lately, though, both normal chat and Work have been painfully slow, and it has made getting things done more frustrating than it should be.
So today I started a Claude subscription to see how it handles the kind of work I do.
I’m not abandoning ChatGPT. I’m just testing another tool and seeing what else is out there.
I’ve lived enough different lives that sometimes even I have to stop and look back at all of it.
Law enforcement. Corrections. Addiction. Recovery. Running. Writing. Building software. Losing things. Starting over.
None of those chapters tells the whole story.
They are all pieces of the same life.
Day 2 of power washing, AKA another therapy session.
There’s something about blasting years of grime off concrete that feels way more satisfying than it probably should.
I believe I’m about to have a breakthrough.
Or a crisis.
Honestly, could go either way.
