Aaron Aiken

Grateful Log

• Forward focus
• Shedding old skin
• Being kind to myself

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• Great day with Mozzie yesterday exploring parts of Millersburg, PA.
• Incredibly restful sleep last night.
• Monday - a new week!

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• Crazy ideas
• Finding rhythm
• Breakthroughs

Just had a crazy idea.

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• Great sleep
• Making time to do things right
• Finished making a Jekyll test site and theme that I’ll be using for a few projects

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• Full sun out on the balcony this morning
• A day to mostly focus on a few key items
• Mozzie will be here soon :-)

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• Went to bed last night when I was tired.
• Which means I was able to get up and moving a bit earlier than usual.
• My day yesterday…I worked on stuff I had been putting off, stuff that moves the needle on a goal I hope to accomplish in the next few months.

Grateful Log Pt. 2

• I get to start each day writing. During the Summer months this is usually in full-sun. I wear flip-flops, swim shorts, and a partially unbuttoned linen shirt 🤙
• “No” has come back into my vocabulary.
• I’m caring less and less what others may or may not think about me.

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• Time to focus
• Time to think
• Time to act

My knowledge management solution has gone through many iterations over the past 10+ years. I’ve gone from Evernote back in the day to various notes apps and DevonThink. I’m not keen on repeating what I’ve used in the past as they never felt exactly right. Any recommendations?

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• Between a routine with the non-medicine medicine we picked up yesterday and herbal tea, I think we have Mozzie’s cough managed and on the way out.
• Two walks yesterday
• A new week!

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• coffee with a plain donut
• Two longer walks yesterday (in lieu of a bike ride since Mozzie is fighting off a cough)
• Always learning

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• Hit my shipping goal for the week yesterday so don’t feel the need to play catchup on orders this weekend!
• Outide temp seems a bit warmer this morning
• Tinkering

After three years of feeling rather lost and confused about my past and uncertain about my future, I have lately had the feeling of returning…like I was gone for a while, even longer than the last three years. It is a strange feeling, but one that I am happy about.

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• Warm weather (which seems to be a long lost memory so far this month…strange August weather we are having)
• Coding my own stuff
• Possibly restarting the Harrisburg Cigar Club

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• The amazingly productive day yesterday with building out a few product-specific landing pages to help get ready for the approaching Christmas retail season.
• A good exercise day yesterday with a quick 10 mile ride after lunch and 1.5 mile walk after dinner.
• Sleeping good.

Holy bananas! I slept so good last night! Feeling good!

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• A nice evening ride with mozzie last night
• A good day with him yesterday, with a nice balance of going between work and spending time with him.
• A very focused effort

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• Two bike rides yesterday: One with Mozzie, 13 miles, stopped for a pizza lunch. Second with my brother and his family and friends of theirs, 8 miles and plenty of stops for the little ones to stretch their legs.
• One week closer
• Watching Iron Man with Mozzie last night, I’m glad that so far he seems to be enjoying the Marvel characters and universe as much as I do.

We watched Captain Marvel last night. I had already seen it but watching it with Mozzie made it even more fun. Phenomenal movie. But I really loved the references to things I have fond memories of:

• Blockbuster
• RadioShack
• Pay phones
• Pagers
• AltaVista
• A computer tower connected to a bulky monitor
• The opening and closing of a CD/DVD tray in said computer tower

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• Having ideas and the abilities required to try them
• Being tenacious
• The cousins having time to play together at the birthday party yesterday

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• A very successful day yesterday
• Sitting in full sun again this morning
• Sending a surprise care package of sorts to a friend (grateful for the idea, one of those shower ideas that come out of nowhere)

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• AC in the building seems to have been fixed overnight
• Chinese takeout for dinner last night
• Time today to focus

AC has been out all day and no signs of a quick fix. Handling some work outside and might as well enjoy myself a bit 🍻

I’ve got this angst in my heart the past two days that I can’t seem to shake.