The New World of Lonnie Mandigo

Morning routine. Coffee and conversation with Jim and Kathy. Booked the Ushuaia flights. Logged new wines. Steve's data center numbers. Walked to Suds, drafting a casting call. Beers with Tim. Stories on the walk home. Andromeda Sprint Review. Agents, Bootmakers, and a Locked Lighthouse Door Events and activities that occurred on Wednesday, October 28, 2026 The day opened at Coffee Culture for my fortnightly morning with Jim. It is still nominally a backgammon date, but these days we rarely open the board; mostly it is just good conversation. Kathy joined us this time. Jim and I have been considering taking up Go instead. Back home I closed one of the open loops on the Antarctica trip. Aerolíneas Argentinas now flies to Ushuaia from Aeroparque rather than Ezeiza, so Tim and I booked the same pair of flights: south at dawn on January 26 and back to Buenos Aires on February 10, in time for the long flight home. The hotels are the last real gap in the itinerary. I also logged the ...

A sleepless hour at 2 AM. A new expedition idea. The annual fall color drive with Bob. The Umpqua maples. Lunch in Reedsport. A location scout at Cape Blanco. Dinner in Bandon. Home by way of Florence. A nightcap at Suds.

Morning routine. Weekly review at Coffee Culture Annex. A long session repairing the health-tracking pipeline. Floated a November studio shoot. A rainy walk to Suds, planning Tuesday's road trip by voice. Suds Monday with Tim, Brian, and Jack.

Morning routine. One last run-through of the Salon talk. An hour of work in the wine cellar. A rainy walk to Tacovore and WinCo. Set up the living room. Hosted the Philomath Salon and gave my data center talk. Good discussion afterward.

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...