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☕️ up earlier than I wanted to be but feeling rested, and so here I am! First cup of coffee brewed and now sitting down to write.

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@cdevroe this sounds perfect.

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@sarcassem amen to this! It is amazing to just sit with nature and be.

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☕️ trying to tie up some loose ends this morning. Coffee outside is nice.

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\"Laptop

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☀️ Grateful Log for Thursday, July 23, 2026

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  1. Family laughs
    2. \n
  2. Space for clarity
    3. \n
  3. Watching birds fly
    4. \n
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☁️ Grateful Log for Tuesday, July 21, 2026

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  1. Making progress on cutting down and removing the half of the tree that fell over the weekend.
    2. \n
  2. Making things.
    3. \n
  3. Learning.
    4. \n
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😴 we had a bad storm Saturday night, split the one tree we have in our backyard, so Sunday afternoon was cutting down what I could. Woke up tired this Monday morning! More to cut down today and tomorrow.

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\"A

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I appreciated this devotional very much: From Death to Life, and All of Grace

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And now, time for rest.

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Happy with this progression.

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@ericmwalk all good, it’s definitely me 😂 I over engineer by default.

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@ericmwalk not yet, I’m still building that piece…will email you when that’s in place :-)

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@ericmwalk ok, should be good to retry, sorry about that! https://aaronaiken.me/the-long-way

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@ericmwalk hm…stand by…

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@sarcassem this reminded me of the old Twitter days, everyone saying “good night, world” before turning in. Hope sleep was great!

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I’ve been writing letters, “Issues”, for this in preparation for launching, and that time is soon I think. You can drop your email onto the form and I’ll let you know when it is ready! Calling it The Long Way.

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\"A

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🍿 family movie night tonight!

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📋 New task logged: Letters From Paul → aaronaiken.me/tools/tasks/

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☀️ opting to take advantage of this sunny sunday by sitting out in the sun, reading a book, and sipping on something cool and refreshing.

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@sarcassem happy Thursday indeed!!

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☁️ Grateful Log for Thursday, July 9, 2026

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  1. A wise bedtime last night (10pm…better than 2:30am)
    2. \n
  2. Feeling rested and clear this morning
    3. \n
  3. Creating
    4. \n
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☕️ Been a while since doing so, which is not good: sitting down with coffee and writing before getting into my day.

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@gregmoore exciting to hear about the leather project! Something for yourself or to give?

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📋 New task logged: Tidy Away → aaronaiken.me/tools/tasks/

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🌫️ Grateful Log for Tuesday, July 7, 2026

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  1. Accidentally slept in, but clearly needed it. Zero memory of my alarm or turning it off!
    2. \n
  2. Family movie night last night.
    3. \n
  3. Getting back into a semi-normal flow/schedule/etc.
    4. \n
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📖 in bed slightly early so I think I’ll read for a bit. A simple luxury!

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☁️ Grateful Log for Monday, July 6, 2026

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  1. water in the basement wasn’t too bad last night.
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  2. Have a clear set of next steps for helping to make Mindsteward more and more of a success moving forward.
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  3. A sense of some type of “light” at the end of this particular tunnel.
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👨🏻‍💻 2026 season of Mindsteward is wrapped. Will have my fair share of work to prepare for 2027’s season, but back to the normal work week for now.

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Tomorrow is the final day of mindsteward kids theater camp and I am excited but dreading it, and already looking forward to kicking off 2027 when auditions start up in the Spring. So incredibly thankful for the opportunity to work with this camp, the campers, and staff!

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@nikokultalahti 😍

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🤪 crazy next few days in store. Final three days of mind steward kids theater camp and I’ll be onsite full time each day. Will be fun, invigorating, but I’m definitely looking forward to some rest this weekend.

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@gregmoore Thank you, sir, that means a lot! It has been a wonderful journey to get to where we are now. Well, maybe the journey itself hasn’t been wonderful, but all of it was necessary to get us here. And so that part of it is wonderful :-)

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☕️ Need to do a “coffee with aaron” blog post again soon. so much to get out of my brain and onto the “page”.

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🌤️ Grateful Log for Monday, June 29, 2026

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  1. Solid start to week two of Mindsteward
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  2. Super hot weather this week
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  3. 3pm coffee
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🍺 to sip, to enjoy.

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⚓️ Watching Hunt for Red October with Mozzie. I enjoy watching these classics with him. Taking a break today, back to it tomorrow for the final week of Mindsteward.

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@gregmoore man, yes, this is perfection! Local coffee shop owner up the street has the same view, “I sell a legal addiction.” Cheers ☕️

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@Nicoleokurr welcome! 😊

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@aaronpk “Astonishing” - love it 😊

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@ChrisJWilson First steps are always good, and those prompts sound very helpful! Hope you are able to feel some relief sooner than later…

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@ablerism thanks! Happy with how they are aging :-)

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@ChrisJWilson More movement is absolutely something I know is needed. I injured myself shoveling snow this past winter and have yet to fully recover. I attribute that to my lack of movement and very steady desk job.

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But, I agree also regarding pressure, expectations and that never ending constants at work. I’m thankfully in a very autonomous role, but I’ve somehow managed to become a main cog in a lot of our processes, something I do not want to have and so am building tools/automations to replace parts of my job…the key will be to not fill it up then immediately with more…

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I’m not sure what the answer is. Less work would be nice, more living. The thought of a two-week vacation is appealing, but I’m not sure if it would be enough time to fully disconnect and decompress.

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@Miraz these are beautiful!

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@WiredDifferently to be honest, i used pika for a sec then left it. Realized i just wanted to roll my own, but was avoiding it. And so that’s what I did on my site. Just about everything i write originates there and I share out when I want to. Most “status update” type stuff is published here and is picked up by m.b via the rss feed. may not have answered your question 🙈 let me know if that’s the case!

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@ReaderJohn the good ’ol days!

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@ericmwalk ha!! Delayed responses like this are fantastic. The brain is like, “no, really, you gotta go back and see this!”

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@ericmwalk it was a phenomenal weekend together! Something we’d love to do more regularly (where our son stays with grandparents so we can have the focused time together).

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@mroutley looks perfect!!

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@lmika yes! this has gone from a kernal of an idea to something i never would have considered, none of it forced, just natural evolution.

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@JohnPhilpin 😂 we’ve been washing clothes and some come out with a very not clean smell. Maybe the clothing fibers are bad? Who knows. So I set out to clean it and now time will tell if I did anything or need to replace it.

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