Aaron Aiken

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Grateful Log
- Simple design
- A new day
- The thunderstorm last night
→ 8:47 AM, Jul 21

Grateful Log
- Good night of sleep
- A longer bike ride yesterday
- The mental clarity that exercise provides
→ 8:58 AM, Jul 20

Outline.

→ 7:40 PM, Jul 19

Grateful Log
- Cloudy today
- Coffee tastes especially good this morning
- Schedule should open up shortly to work on some aging ideas
→ 8:55 AM, Jul 19

Grateful Log
- Out for a ride already this morning
- Massage later today (longest 3 weeks of my life 😂)
- That feeling of being on the right track
→ 10:37 AM, Jul 18

Grateful Log
- Shipped out a large order of leather cigar cases for a wedding party
- Squeezed in another bike ride with Mozzie after the work day and before the evening kicked off
- Having some time to write now before the day is over
→ 8:51 PM, Jul 17

Grateful Log
- Great sleep last night
- Made it to church this morning
- Break in the rain today, enough time to get the bikes out for a short ride.
→ 4:30 PM, Jul 16

Grateful Log
- My micro-vacation yesterday afternoon by the pool. That time to switch off was very needed.
- Coffee this morning while writing outside
- Nothing but the weekend ahead :-)
→ 9:08 AM, Jul 15

My afternoon spot and couldn’t be happier. Well, I guess I could but this is pretty awesome! Cigar, jack and coke, pool suite fm, sweating. Heaven for me :-)

→ 3:59 PM, Jul 14

Grateful Log
- Squeezing in a 30 minute bike ride last night between late night work sessions. Feels so good to move.
- Mad Men - probably my 5th or 6th time “watching” it (on in the background while I work). I relate to so much of that show.
- Continued clarity on next steps.
→ 8:28 AM, Jul 14

My morning writing sessions are so awesome. Before I do anything else I sit down and write. I never know what I’m going to write but once I start it is hard to stop. This is purely journaling for me, 750 words, morning pages, etc. But it always turns into a time of capturing ideas, expanding on ideas, determining which way to go. The time I set aside for this is easily the most productive and valuable part of my day.

→ 9:42 AM, Jul 13

Grateful Log
- Happy with the productivity/output of the week so far
- Great time at the hotel lounge last night, celebrating a friend’s birthday
- Fun dreams
→ 8:54 AM, Jul 13

Grateful Log
- Fun evening with Mozzie: bike ride and a board game
- Fresh haircut
- Being able to see an objective from 30,000 feet
→ 8:41 AM, Jul 12

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
→ 9:52 AM, Jul 11

Grateful Log
- 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!
→ 8:25 AM, Jul 10

🍿 Watching Jumanji (1995)

→ 4:56 PM, Jul 9

🍿 Watching Jumanji (1995)

→ 4:56 PM, Jul 9

Grateful Log
- 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.
→ 12:39 PM, Jul 9

Grateful Log
- 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.
→ 9:37 AM, Jul 8

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.

→ 7:52 AM, Jul 8

Grateful Log
- Breathing new life into an old idea
- Focus for the second half of the year
- Coffee :-)
→ 9:07 AM, Jul 7

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.

→ 6:53 PM, Jul 6

Grateful Log
- 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)
→ 9:08 AM, Jul 6

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

→ 9:30 AM, Jul 5

Grateful Log
- Great day yesterday
- Back into the swing of things today
- Short bike ride yesterday, a simple slow one.
→ 8:55 AM, Jul 5