Aaron Aiken

Grateful Log

• Sunny forecast for the next two days
• Teaching Mozzie how to edit video and audio files
• The big questions he has been asking lately

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• Great rainy afternoon yesterday of watching the Jumanji movies
• Squeezed in an evening walk after the thunderstorms
• Successfully unplugged from all work for the entire weekend! Feeling refreshed!

🍿 Watching Jumanji (1995)

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• Great day yesterday
• Rediscovered the wide-mouth Nalgene I used back in the early 2000’s. Got a new one for myself and one for Mozzie.
• Morning bike ride in before afternoon thunderstorms.

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• Bike ride with Mozzie first thing this morning
• Cigars & brews by the pool this afternoon!
• Bought a whiteboard yesterday, using it to keep several short-term goals front and center for the next 6 months or so.

I only use one “social network”, which is really just my blog posts publishing to a shared timeline viewed by others where replies and such may occur. Each post I publish contributes to my website, not a corporate machine. Micro.blog is the way.

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• Breathing new life into an old idea
• Focus for the second half of the year
• Coffee :-)

I’m working on a relaunch of a project I originally started back in 2018 or so…it has been nagging at me for a while and so I’m just going to give it another go. Starting with a simple landing page, take a look if you are interested: Don’t Touch My Cigars.

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• Today is Thursday
• Future goals are really coming into focus, and will help to direct daily goals etc.
• Coffee
• Excellent time catching up with a lifelong friend last night (we’ve known each other for 32 years)

The unpredictable nature of Siri combined with Apple Music actually acts as its own phenomenal and surprising new music discovery process 😂

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• Great day yesterday
• Back into the swing of things today
• Short bike ride yesterday, a simple slow one.

51th - embrace the mistakes :-)

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• Looks like a great weather forecast for Independence Day festivities!
• Teaching mozzie how to edit video
• Cigars with friends after a busy day yesterday

Small leather pouch that is part of a larger collection of leather goods I’m working on. Using this one to hold a few of my fountain pens.

Not intentional, which I like, but have been using my iPad Air a lot recently. I think part of it may be from the “lifestyle” pattern I’ve landed on, which is moving every 3 years or so. More to write on this, but I think my subconscious is now in a mode of: keep things light.

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• Awesome time in Gettysburg with Mozzie yesterday
• A new week
• Shipping an aging leather order out this week…finally :-)

Mozzie and I just returned from a full day at the 160th Battle of Gettysburg Anniversary Event in Gettysburg PA. This was our first Civil War reenactment event and enjoyed every minute of it!

Time now for a cigar :-)

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• Mozzie was nominated for and voted camper of the year in the closing ceremony of theater camp :-)
• A Saturday to focus on a few things
• Hello July!

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• Ideas
• Coffee
• Time

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• Mozzie has an active role this year in the theater camp production
• Bike ride with him around the neighborhood last night
• Clarity

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• Time to write this morning, week so far is a blur.
• Ideas
• Coffee

Quick leather iPad sleeve.

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• The sun is shining!!!
• Skipping church - opting instead for a different morning consisting of writing, a slow breakfast, and a bike ride before heading off to a birthday party.
• Made a quick leather pouch for my iPad yesterday.
• Watching Mozzie mix leather paint to get to the shade of blue he had in mind for his new leather bracelet.

Had a great ride this morning, decided to venture off of the pavement :-)

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• Break in the rain this morning, will sneak out for a bike ride.
• Went out to eat last night, which has been rare as of late, and sat inside (instead of doing the new normal of takeout). The change of scenery was very nice.
• That weekend feeling.