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LOTR Movie Night 💍

6:00  arrive / remove shoes
6:15  pizza council convenes
6:30  Fellowship begins
8:10  intermission · no side quests

The Two Towers Trivia
  1. What is the fortress at Helm’s Deep called?
  2. Which two Hobbits awaken the Ents?
  3. What was Gollum’s name before the Ring?
Tie-breaker: How old is Aragorn? Host key Hornburg · Merry & Pippin · Sméagol · 87
🔔 Tonight · 8:30 PM · check oven
Anya's Famous Lasagna

Cozy, rich, and very “everyone asks for seconds.”

Method
Sauce, noodles, ricotta, repeat.
Bake 375° for 45 min, rest 10.

# Anya's lasagna
noodles:    12
marinara:   24 oz
ricotta:    15 oz
mozzarella: 2 cups
egg:        1
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moon kart debug

desert track, big ramp
keeps hopping after landing

using UnityEngine;

class KartController : MonoB…
{
  public float motorForce = 1800f;
  public float groundCheckDistanc…
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ZIPGame Files
CSKart…troller
Workout Plan 💪🏽

“Come with me if you want to lift.”-Arnold

daylifttarget
1MonUpper Body45 min
2WedLegs + Core50 min
3FridayFull Body40 min
Ggetjackednow.govgetjackednow.gov
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Coffee Orders

the run, friday

maya · oat flat white
sam · just black (“like my soul”)
priya · iced. in january. ❄️
dana · “surprise me” (never)
new guy · six shots. watching him.
theo · “medium regular” ??
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8:47 AM
WiFi Passwords

home: ask dad

cafe: coffee123

mom’s house: taped under the router

that one bar: ask andre. only andre.

1:17 AM
my enemies list
Locked11:11 PM
AP Physics

F = ma · p = mv

g = 9.8 m/s² (not 10!!)

quiz thu · flashcards are in my bag

PDFPSet 4.pdf
1:08 AM
Fishing Trip

wren lake, 5am. yes, 5am.

Wwrenlake-report.comwater 61 °F · bite: ON · wind: rude

worms > lures. dad is wrong. bring both.

thermos rule: whoever drives, pours

catch count last year: 3 fish, 1 boot, 1 friendship (strengthened)

4:50 AM
Meal Prep
dayplan
sunpasta night
montacos
tueleftovers (be honest)
wedpasta again

sunday me cooks so tuesday me can live

the freezer lasagna doesn’t count. that’s emergency lasagna.

shopping list (found it)

linked it so i stop losing it. growth.

1:11 AM
planet field notes

☿ ♀ 🜨 ♂ ♃ ♄ ⛢ ♆

MERCURY, you strange thing430 °C days. −180 °C nights. and still: water ice, in polar craters the sun hasn’t touched in a billion years.

Neptune & Uranus: it rains diamonds down there

Saturn’s rings are younger than sharks. and they’re falling in. enjoy them while they last

Jupiter has no surface. you just… keep sinking

data: the universe. methodology: lying on the roof

11:11 PM
DO NOT OPEN
Locked1:03 AM
New Words

petrichor (rain smell!)

defenestrate (out the window!!)

sonder: everyone’s living a whole life, all at once

vellichor: the smell of old bookshops

use all four in one sentence. become unstoppable.

3:40 PM
My Bitcoin Passwords

tried: hunter2

tried: password123

the yogurt lid one??

the sticky note mom “tidied away”

2013 wallet: $4.7M · password: gone forever 🪦

2 of 10 guesses left. no pressure.

2:14 AM
for the hard days

it’s okay if today was just showing up. that counts.

the bad day is data, not a verdict.

drink water. go outside. it helps. it really does. 💛

8:04 AM
symptom log

Mon · headache 4/10 · slept 5h · little water

Tue · no headache · slept 7h · 6 glasses water

Thu · headache 2/10 · skipped lunch

pattern so far: sleep and hydration seem to matter more than caffeine.

Friday appointment · bring this log and medication list 🩺

9:12 AM
Psych 101

reading: ch. 4-6 by friday (currently: page 2 of ch. 1)

week 6: memoryencoding → storage → retrieval
working memory: ~7 ± 2 items
spacing beats cramming (Ebbinghaus)testing yourself IS studying

classical = Pavlov, pairing. operant = Skinner, consequences.

correlation ≠ causation. it will be on the exam. it is always on the exam.

paper topic: memory. forgot to submit it.

midterm covers “everything so far.” cool. cool cool cool.

8:57 AM
Notel bug fixes

fixed: notes stacked in the wrong order ✅

fixed: a typo in this note about fixing typos

known issue: fan view is too fun. wontfix

if you can read this, the website works 🎉

6:12 PM
Japan: master plan

two weeks. three cities. one suitcase.

flights booked
hotel, tokyo
JR pass
learn 20 words of japanese
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dayscity
1-5Tokyo
6-10Kyoto
11-14Osaka

the konbini rule

phrasebook (survival tier)sumimasen: sorry / excuse me / magic word
oishii: delicious
biiru: beerpronunciation: enthusiastic
🍜best ramen maptabelog.com

budget: yes. see bitcoin note.

9:40 PM
the heist (game night)

operation: win heist night for once

vaultlobbyventexit

roles:

1. mastermind: me, obviously

2. distraction: kevin (natural talent)

3. getaway: anya (owns a car)

weak point: the vent. it is always the vent.

plan B: flip the board, apologize later

8:15 PM
PHYS 210 cheat sheet

allowed: one page. font size: debatable.

mechanicsF = ma · p = mv · KE = ½mv²
wavesv = fλ · T = 1/f
constvalue
g9.81 m/s²
c3.0×10⁸ m/s
h6.63×10⁻³⁴

the pendulum thing

if all else fails: dimensional analysis

write smaller.

11:59 PM
one more name, ch. 1

At 12:17 AM, former detective Eli Mercer had $43 in the bank and three days left on his office lease.

The woman at his door said her brother had disappeared. No struggle. No note. The police called it voluntary and closed the file before lunch.

Mercer noticed an address label had been peeled from her envelope.

He nearly sent her home. Then she placed a photograph on his desk: her brother, alive yesterday, standing beside the officer who had framed Mercer.

editor’s notekeep Mercer observant, tired, and difficult. Do not make him noble too soon.

word count: 284

chapter two: find out who took the photograph.

3:12 AM
the frog that comes back

the wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) freezes solid every winter.

heart: stopped. breathing: none. ⅔ of it literally ice.

then spring comes… and it just thaws out and hops away.

nature invented the save file.

7:22 AM
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Cast List

Gandalf: marcus. he already talks like that.

Aragorn: dev. it’s the jawline.

Gollum: he doesnt know yet.

dad wants to be Gimli. fine.

still need someone tall for the Balrog

Birthday Guests

Anya ✓ · Sam ✓ · Marcus (maybe)

definitely not Kevin

Kevin asked. told him it’s cancelled very full.

Fishing Trip

🔔 Tomorrow · 9:00 AM · call jfishin

stop at snack shack for bait + cold drinks

worms 🐛 · sunscreen

Favorite Movies

1. Return of the King

2. Return of the King

3. Return of the King, extended edition

AP Physics

F = ma · p = mv · W = Fd cosθ

g = 9.8 m/s² (not 10!!)

quiz thu · flashcards are in my bag

PDFPSet 4.pdf
ZIPTetris.zip
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Vacation Cost 🏖️
Checkout math 🧮
Quick sums 🧠
Freelance math 🧾
Nerd corner 🤓
Road trip split 🚗
gas = $68 × 3  → $204
motel = $139 × 2  → $278
snacks = $47
total = gas + motel + snacks  → $529
each = total / 3  → $176.33
Rainy-day fund ☂️
take home = $4,850
save = 12% of take home  → $582
months = 8
fund = save × months  → $4,656
quietly becoming difficult to surprise.
Tomorrow, handled

remind me tomorrow at 8:15 to bring the signed forms

🔔 Tomorrow · 8:15 AM · bring the signed forms

remind me 45 minutes before the 6:30 train

🔔 Tomorrow · 5:45 PM · leave for the train

Small routines

water the plants every Wednesday and Sunday at 8am

🔔 Wed & Sun · 8:00 AM · water the plants

first business day each month: send invoices

🔔 Monthly · first business day · send invoices

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