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The Quiet After

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Yesterday began with early waking and cat struggles over routine disruption, moved through hanging out with kids before their departure, then settled into domestic restoration—picking up, IT systems work cleaning Mac backups and reorganizing photo storage, fixing the toilet, doing laundry. Worked on a Mika photo set, walked to Suds for a beer with Tim, Brian, and Jack, Brian providing ride home. Evening brought Minecraft and usual TV including Greatest Controversies asking whether the Jews killed Jesus—the conclusion was no they did not. Just a typical day, the kind that follows big gatherings, house slowly returning to its normal rhythms.
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The Aunties Arrive

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Yesterday brought Sam's breakfast burritos, my sisters arriving early afternoon expanding the family gathering, Jackson-Frasier walk with beautiful fall colors and Leland doing photography, investigating open source photo tools for his budding practice. Evening converged at Tacovore—Sydne, Dakota, Sage joining, dinner with so many family members together, even Deaken appearing afterward. Happy people talking late into evening, until toilet flapper self-destructed reminding me that houses demand attention regardless of social joy.
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Family Convergence

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Yesterday brought Loni and the boys midday, Sam's dramatic eMountain bike fall down a ravine leaving him beat up but unbroken, and McMenamins lunch converging with Sydne, Dakota, and Koa. Art gallery pondering, baby chicks at Coastal serving as micro zoo, Leland discovering photographer joy with his camera. Evening pizza with Debi and John, Uno games, conversation flowing easily among generations. The house filled with family energy, multiple branches gathering, kids exploring their interests while adults facilitated and observed.
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Technical Talk and Vineyard Walks

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Yesterday moved from SESIG's technical discussions about solar inverters and sodium batteries through guest preparation to Joey's arrival and Corvallis tour—Coffee Culture barista recognition, Airlie Winery's lovely flight and vineyard photography, E.E. Wilson pictures, finishing my Suds beer card earning the T-shirt, and Old World Deli dinner where Joey made new musical contacts. The day divided between morning engineering talk and afternoon social adventure, both satisfying in their own ways.
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Deck Transformations

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Yesterday brought lower deck cleaning that transformed the hot tub space, a quest for storage containers yielding wooden boxes at Bi-Mart, and a squeezed-in Planet Fitness workout where I caught up with Steve. Brief beer at Suds with yet another new bartender got cut short by a call that canceled, leaving time for Minecraft before yoga. Post-yoga conversation with Cathy about organizational change, while separately noticing Suds now runs two shifts daily—new rhythms, new bartenders, new patterns emerging from what used to be stable.
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Systems and Understanding

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Yesterday brought chats with many people, Zoom conversation with Gwen about British travels and retirement aspirations, and an abandoned Planet Fitness workout after discovering my padlock had wandered off. Evening beer and pizza with Steve included pondering how humans know and trust anything—thought experiments about dropping stone age people into modern government or average people into AI-saturated worlds, questions about abstraction tools we lack for understanding complex systems. We've always dealt with incomprehensible intelligence though: other humans. Those relationship tools work but aren't generally accepted for AI.
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Engineering Solutions

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Yesterday moved from SESIG discussions about grease through England blog migration to solar system engineering, from First Tuesday lunch stories about Alaska to solo yoga that proved painful and good. Jerry at Be Solar clarified I'll need to engineer my own system, Aurora the new Suds bartender draws an interesting crowd, and I chatted with Emily on Strava—pleasant conversation, though these days you have to wonder if online connections are actually human.
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