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Welcome to Notel.

Welcome to Notel

Welcome to Notel.

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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

What is the fortress at Helm’s Deep called?
Which two Hobbits awaken the Ents?
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.

Lasagna ingredients

12 lasagna noodles
24 oz marinara
15 oz ricotta
1 egg…

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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

	day	lift	target
1	Mon	Upper Body	45 min
2	Wed	Legs + Core	50 min
3	Fri	Full Body	40 min

GGet Jacked Nowgetjackednow.gov

new plates: $260. selling the old treadmill (it is a coat rack).

new plates fund

$140of $260

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Coffee Orders

the run, friday

maya · oat flat white

sam · just black (“like my soul”)

priya · iced. ❄️

dana · “surprise me” (come on)

new guy · six shots. watching him.

theo · “medium regular” ??

+Add Item

8:47 AM

WiFi Passwords

home: MyDogBlue94

cafe: coffeeasydoesit

mom’s house: taped under router

barry’s house: 12345

Elkwood Assisted Living: applesaucesupplier

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

ZIPTetris.zip

1:08 AM

Fishing Trip

wren lake, 5am. yes, 5am.

Wwrenlake-report.com

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

day	plan
sun	pasta night
mon	tacos
tue	leftovers (be honest)
wed	pasta 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

☀️ apricity: the warmth of the sun in winter

🏡 hiraeth: homesick for somewhere you can’t go back to

🍃 susurrus: a soft, rustling whisper

use all seven in one sentence. become unstoppable.

3:40 PM

symptom log

Mon · headache 4/10 by 3pm · slept 5h 40m · 2 coffees · ~1L water

Tue · no headache · slept 7h · 1 coffee · 2L water · 20 min walk

Wed · headache 3/10 after screens · slept 6h · lunch at 3

Thu · headache 2/10 · slept 7h 15m · ibuprofen 200mg, 8pm

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

fixed: the close button closed the wrong note. it was very confident.

known issue: fan view is too fun. wontfix

known issue: the sticky note keeps sticking. working as intended

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

+Add Item

days	city
1-5	Tokyo
6-10	Kyoto
11-14	Osaka

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

the plan

heist night

vault

the vent

always fails

getaway

anya’s car

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

const	value
g	9.81 m/s²
c	3.0×10⁸ m/s
h	6.63×10⁻³⁴

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. see: cryoprotection

7:22 AM

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Cast List

Gandalf: marcus. he already talks like that.

Aragorn: dev. it’s the jawline.

Gollum: he doesn’t know yet.

dad wants to be Gimli. fine.

still need someone tall for the Balrog

Audition tapes3 videos · 1 apology

Birthday Guests

Anya ✓ · Sam ✓ · Marcus (maybe)

venue: the roller rink 🤫

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

HEICthe-catch.heic

Favorite Movies

1. Return of the King

2. Return of the King

3. Return of the King, extended edition

★extended editions, rankedletterboxd.com

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

🔔 Thu · 7:30 AM · bring the formula sheet

Smart Notes

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Variables, %, even math in words
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Vacation Cost 🏖️

Checkout math 🧮

Quick sums 🧠

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

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

remind me at 12:30 to call the dentist back

🔔 Tomorrow · 12:30 PM · call the dentist back

remind me at 3 to move the car

🔔 Tomorrow · 3:00 PM · move the car

remind me at 8pm to pay the water bill

🔔 Tomorrow · 8:00 PM · pay the water bill

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

every Friday at 5:30pm take the bins out

Fri · 5:30 PM · take the bins out

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