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A running log

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Little updates on what I'm building, learning, and messing with lately. Newest first.

  1. Jul 6, 2026

    Spent the day adding new rooms to the museum. There's now a Music exhibit for a decade of open mics and covers, The 5th Star, a Reality Dating Show cameo from 2012, Halloween Camping, and an About page that finally explains what this whole thing is. Plenty of new corners to get lost in.

  2. Jul 5, 2026

    Got out to try to catch some fireworks. It was so dense and foggy that it played more like illuminated clouds than full fireworks, the whole sky lighting up from the inside. A different show than the one we came for, and somehow better for it.

    Fireworks glowing through heavy fog, like illuminated clouds

  3. Jul 4, 2026 Later that day

    I got knocked out in the first round, and this turned into the first bags tournament we've ever played in the rain. Everything got soaked. The bags were sticking, then they were sliding, and people were wringing them out before every single throw while everybody else huddled under the tents to watch. It was awesome. Ryan took the whole thing.

    The 7th annual tournament, the first one in the rain.
    Ryan with the trophy
    Joe lifting up Ryan to celebrate the win

  4. Jul 4, 2026 Earlier that day

    Since COVID, we've hosted a bags tournament for my mom's birthday. My sister works for days beforehand to get her house ready for everyone, and then we play the All-In version of bags in a giant, 32-person single-elimination bracket. I finally made it to a championship match once. Last year, my uncle knocked me out in the first round.

  5. Jul 3, 2026

    I used AI to scan a folder with over 30 interviews, transcribe the audio files, then combine the separate "Joe track + their track" transcriptions into one single, giant file. This way I can import all 30 interviews into a NotebookLM and keep it searchable in the future.