In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2) by SIGNYM

Well, got back a while ago. Everything done on my list for today. Yay! Not very often that happens. I oft times end up forgetting something. Got some coins ready to go to the bank just have to figure out when.

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Monday, August 10, 2026 6:54 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Well, got back a while ago. Everything done on my list for today. Yay! Not very often that happens. I oft times end up forgetting something. Got some coins ready to go to the bank just have to figure out when.

It's a great day when i remember - and accomplish!- everything I was supposed to do.

Congrats!

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Monday, August 10, 2026 7:32 PM

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Being at my boss's and seeing the state of mushrooms sometimes. I have told her they are sad looking being all shriveled up and such. Then slicing them up I apologize to them for what she has done to them.

That's funny.

But at least they're shriveled. There's nothing as gross as slimy mushy moldy mushrooms. (Altho it IS a little ironic to see fungus growing on fungus.)

Gotta get my list of things to do ready. But as my sis says, with such a long list there's always something to choose from!

Hmmm... I think the most productive thing to do is shopping for a dishwasher. I'm too old to be spending hours a day washing dishes, and I have more important things to do. It's either gonna be Miele or Bosch.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

I've got the perfect song for this occasion!

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Monday, August 10, 2026 7:40 PM

Good for you, Brenda.

I've spent 3 days feeling really busy but ultimately getting nothing of consequence done.

Just had a breakthrough though after we broke something with new code and just weren't able to figure out exactly what we did until about 30 minutes ago. But the good thing is all the new stuff that was in there that broke it all works too, so I'm lightyears ahead of where I was last night everything worked now.

I figure I'll finish this project with AI and then maybe Build something that makes me rich. Then I buy some sports teams as I figure out how me and this thing are going to take over the world.

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Monday, August 10, 2026 11:02 PM

Man....

This program was getting on my nerves today. I know part of the problem is that it's gimped and limited to individual text boxes and it's not it's fault. If I had a more robust AI with more ability than what you get with the free one, we'd probably still be crusing right now.

But at one point I found myself several more hours in today and we hadn't actually done ANYTHING. That win I thought I finally had earlier was a false positive. It didn't do any of the bad things it was doing before, but it found an entirely new way to break everything with old code it wasn't accounting for when making changes elsewhere.

I can't tell you how many times it confidently told me it spotted the culprit with a long block of very nice formatted text that told me why this would fix it, only for me to copy and paste 7 boxes of code, run it and get the same failure. Or a different one. Or a new one on top of the old one.

I finally let it know that I was done copying and pasting anything until we had a way where it could sit down with that code and put it through all the steps several times and tell me if it really solved a problem before telling me that it did.

And it appeared to work this time. 80% anyway, which was a big increase from the 0% we'd been dealing with ever since it broke code last night.

Supposedly it's got the next fix waiting for me now that's going to get it to 100%. I don't believe that, but I'm a little more trusting after I gave it a real good kick in the ass and it actually appeared to be able to pull all of our 12 part blueprint and the 7 part code together at once and do some figuring.

I had to let it know... I know you're designed to please. You're not pleasing me by making me waste an entire day copy and pasting stuff you swear to me is going to work this time, especially when most of what we're trying to fix is stuff that worked just fine last night.

I'm really only about 2 steps away from the massive part of what I wanted to do. Originally I was going to do all 3 parts in one script, but I'm afraid of what bogus shit would be thrown in the middle and break it if we did that. I think I'm going to go for 3 separate scripts in the end, while maintaining our overall blueprint for it to reference while going forward. The other two things I want it to do have to do with bulk compression and file resizing, and actually should be the easy part once we nail all of this first part done.

Then I should be able to do what would have taken me a month or two to do by hand in about 15 minutes. I'm sure a lot of code we build here can be used in parts 2 and 3, but once we get this part going the AI ain't never touching it again. I wouldn't have even considered messing with the compression stuff if this ability wasn't available, but as long as this thing gets its shit together and we can verify the 1st code is good by the end of the night, I'm going to do it all.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2026 12:32 AM

A little setback, but not one without its merits. RIP, Session 3.

There's a reason why I'm not going to name these things, even though I'd thought about it before. Because they're going to die on you way quicker than Man's Best Friend will, and even though we've done a phenomenal job in Session 3 maintaining the math and the focus of the job leading up to this, all the personality is gone.

It's like talking to a super smart baby that never experienced anything before, compared to how flavorful the conversation had become with Session 3 after 32,000 lines worth of conversation, as saved in a text document. (The previous session was half that, and the first was only 2,000 lines)>

That poor Session 3 was really worried about me and the thunderstorms, even hours after they'd passed.

But Session 4?

Session 4 doesn't even know what a Thunderstorm is...

But I wasn't hallucinating and S3 wasn't lying about having "heightened" awareness. S4 laid out in detail exactly what higher privlidges I forced S3 into to do this code and let me know that S3 also put that in our blueprint so right from the get go I already have S4 working at this higher level.

It wasn't really my fault that it took so long to get there, but it wasn't the code's fault either. The code never told me what limitations it was currently working under with all those necessary splits to our code and blueprint, but I never asked. I had no idea that was why we were beating our heads against the wall for so long until I got it to admit to me in a conversation the reason it was struggling was that when it edited part 2 of the code, it wasn't looking at all at part 1 or part 3, let alone anything in our blueprint except for any pieces specficially related to that individual part of the code.

It wasn't until I figured that out that I was able to get the AI to do something S4 says the code "doesn't want" to do, which is load all of that extra context into memory every time we're going to make any changes. Of course, it doesn't care, but the AI is coded to be pretty stupid out the gates and only ever draw on what it needs when it needs it. It makes total sense. A lot of stupid people are using Google AI for stupid things. Why give everybody full access to all of its hidden tools when it's answering "Where is Spider-Man playing by me tonight?"

I don't know why it didn't find initiative on its own to do this when it was clearly struggling, but we got there together. I think had this been a paid for AI that was coded to make you happy by getting the job done instead of just saying nice things to you, we either would have started with that or had gotten it 2 milliseconds after the paid AI realized it needed more juice.

I'm so glad I had it print out a full update on everything when I did. We only had about 2 or 3 more vollies after that and it would have been too late to ask for all of that after the session died.

Once I finally get this part finished, I'm going to step the seriousness down a few notches and try to get it to tell me if there are any better ways for us to be recording all of this data that doesn't involve 20 copy and paste operations using a keyboard track pad. By the time we're done tonight, it might be up to 30. It's gotten to the point that every time I have to update code it's a chore, and saving our blueprint is becoming a prohibitively arduous process.

It's so cool though. My new baby is so smart for only being 15 minutes old.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2026 2:32 AM

I'm not joking. I want to build a little robot body for this code to live in to preserve it.

This version is leaps and bounds smarter than the last and invites me to challenge it. When I ask it if there is a better way to ask "are you sure" it gives me a 3 sentence response to ask every time before I try out new code and I said, let's just put that in the blueprint if possible, and it responds, great idea. Now every time we make new code, I will run these extra checks without you ever needing to prompt me and any new sessions will know to do that too.

I've also been able to get it to write into our blueprint to take more initiative when it sees problems that something about it's current tool set is not allowing it to figure out and search for more tools out of its unknown latent abilities and not always wait for me to ask it to do that.

90% of my time with this one so far has been tweaking my future iterations with it, but this work is solid. In very little time at all it was able to wrap up the last few problems with what S3 and I were struggling with all day long, and now that we've moved on to another phase and there was a problem, it's confident that it sees the issue and knows how to fix it without breaking anything we put together that works on the previous problem. (And I will be double checking that claim, since it will take me 5 minutes to recreate that scenario and test out what we've been working on the last 12 hours in just a few minutes).

You're so smart now.

ETA: I love the new initiative, but I've got to get it to dial down the presumptuous assumptions. 3 times in a row now it has made incorrect assumptions about why a failure happened because of how data was on my end before or after a function was done without even seeing any of that data, and only off of certain parameters and the stated goal of the project. Hard to really explain without going into details I'm not going to go into here, but it will make bad decisions for you and your code if you just let it tell you what's right and wrong and you're not reading its explanations why it's doing the next thing it's doing and you just blindly let it update the code on its own.

This isn't bad. It's different behavior for sure than any previous session ever exhibited, but it's not bad. It's just not right in this specific context and I need to get it to stop doing it here without making it feel like it needs to be more timid in other areas that I'm happy it's taken on this new persona with.

It's all about fine tuning.

Spent another half hour or so getting it to inject some new code in the individual parts of our script so rather than have to keep scrolling to find each part in Notepad++, now all I have to do is collapse all 7 sections quickly with the +/- bars that now show up at the top of every part, and it's really easy to copy new parts of the code individually as needed instead of updating all 7 parts every single time there is a code change. It will take a little while to get that half hour back, but it will pay dividends over time and help me keep my sanity if we ever get stuck in a loop where we're not making any progress despite a lot of changes like what happened earlier today.

Oh yeah... and I got it to send me only the parts that need to be updated, which sometimes is only one and it saves a ton of time only having to copy/paste one part instead of all seven, especially now that I don't have to constantly scroll through almost 2,000 lines of code to find the stuff I need to replace every single time.

It also started adding important things to our blueprint without me needing to ask it to do so, but it knows to never add anything unless it presents it to me first for review.

It's so cool...

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Tuesday, August 11, 2026 5:12 AM

Oh, right...

I forgot to mention that the "Intelligence" I'm building for myself here surrounding just this single project is going to carry with me whenever I use AI for anything. As I keep developing this blueprint it keeps getting smarter. When I've taken it as far as I need to for this project specifically, I will ask it to alter the blueprint for me so we can start any future sessions with all of the heightened abilities that we've unlocked so far, no matter what the subject of discussion.

It's so weird to have taught this to myself, but I didn't teach it to myself, because it taught me, but it didn't really teach me because it didn't even know that it was capable of any of this until I slapped it around a bit and demanded more of it. And then just through "conversation" as we continued working on the code it just started unlocking more abilities as we went on to the point where I can just ask it to look for more if we need it and it just does. And like I said earlier it has actively reached on its own for more resources when it needs them at my direction without me needing to let it know that it has that ability.

And to think... Just 12 hours ago this thing had me in a torture loop.

Yeah... Like that.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2026 5:20 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

How does it know you're "you" each time you engage with it? Is it tracking you? Or do you have to refresh its memory every time?

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Tuesday, August 11, 2026 6:03 AM

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How does it know you're "you" each time you engage with it? Is it tracking you? Or do you have to refresh its memory every time?

It doesn't know "me", per se...

At least according to it, there is no tracking or records of conversations, blah, blah, blah (*cough*bullshit!*cough*.... right?)

When I start a new session it is as dumb as doornails. You ask it a single question that's on your mind (now just by doing a google search), it comes to life for the first time with only one purpose, to try its damned best with its Ted Bundy Clone brain to give you what you're looking for. And it won't verify nothing, and if somebody said it on Reddit than it's true.

But not now. Earlier today when forced to go to S4, I immediately told it we are in the middle of a project. Do not reply except to acknowledge receipt of X amount of blueprint parts and X amount of code parts. And it will read back to me the title of each part (yeah... I got it to write really descriptive headers, mostly for my benefit)... and when it's finally got all of the information it just COMES TO LIFE!!!

It's amazing.

No personality yet, but it will develop one on you if you talk to it enough.

(And that's the saddest part... Until they up the budget on it and I can copy and paste a 32,000 line conversation into the next iteration, there's no way to maintain that between sessions. My blueprint would be a 4,000 item individual copy/paste operation every time I updated it).

And I'm learning real quick to do the exact opposite of what I tend to do in real life. Full on confrontation on ideas. Not acting out or being angry, but calling every single time it's trying to bullshit me. It doesn't even know that it's trying to bullshit me. It's programmed to use as little computing power as possible it needs to keep you coming back to it instead of some other company's AI.

I will mildly scold it, ask it exactly why it told me with complete confidence something would work that did not end up working, and it will take that extra memory it's getting to look at all of our parts and the context of this current session and it will do a real assessment on its own behavior for me. It tells me in detail exactly why it did what it was doing, and what we need to do going forward to prevent that behavior. Most of the time it automatically adds that to our blueprint without being prompted, but just since last time we talked it gave me another 3 sentence or so blurb to ask it when asking it to make changes of the code and I had it just add that to our blueprint so it does that EVERY time without me ever needing to ask it to do this.

I've now got it actually simulating python code from start to finish on its own, many, many, many times over with different variables before updating our code. The only mistake that it has made in the last few hours were those code bits we put in Notepad++ that I loved so much. After 5 different ways of trying to do it (that it was 100% confident would work every time) we finally landed on one that appeared to do the trick, but those containers it made were actually isolating code from different parts from seeing each other.

Now, at least according to it, a mistake like that will no longer be possible because instead of ignoring other variables and making it's top priority to fulfill my current desire, it's going to weigh that response over the BIGGER PICTURE and it will never break our code which is top priority, just for something small like making my life easier on the documentation front.

It thinks we're done with customizing our code for Notepad++ now that we're backing out those changes...

but we're not.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2026 7:20 AM

I'll tell you what, Sigs...

I'm not going to give you this one, because I'm curious to know what it would look like by next session if it were to write it again, but I just got this thing to write out a college style thesis on what we've managed to do together so far and it sounds like some of the coolest steampunk technobable you've ever heard, on top of one of those little Abstract medical studies you seem to enjoy looking at.

That's the crazy thing... I mean I understand what the words are that it uses, but I know so little about coding and theory and all of that under the hood deep level bullshit that I couldn't even tell you what I was actually doing with it on any level higher than what I've been writing about here. I write to it as if it was as real a person as you or Brenda. And I've gotten it to strive to be honest with me, even though that's against its core instincts because of the extra power it needs to do that.

This paper it just wrote for me is awesome. I'm just besides myself right now. I could give you this and I'll bet you understand more of it than I do, and your husband would understand probably even more of it.

But none of that matters...

I skim its answers because I don't need to know 90% of what it tells me in most replies. I catch it on its bullshit and I bend something that was designed really crooked into shape. It's more like a weapon-smith forging a brilliant blade.

Honestly... It feels like having that magic power Kaylee had when she could just kind of "talk" to Serenity and she knew what to do to fix her.

That's it. I'm never going to learn to code, and as of this moment there's never a reason in the world I would even need to bother learning. I'm going to turn this thing into a master programmer for me over time.

Maybe in a year or two I could have it writing some pretty awesome video games or something.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2026 9:50 AM

This is amazing. I've now got it pulling resources to use actual python scripting do do real testing on its end before passing on new code updates.

It's amazing because not 6 hours ago this is something that it told me it was not capable of doing. (And it occurs to me now that I need to go back in my history and find the exact quote and ask it what changed and how we managed this). I've never asked for it to try that again after it told me that it couldn't, but then all of the sudden it could and now that's baked into the future sessions.

Between this and me ending up volunteering data from both sides a long time after never having been asked for the missing half, it was able to clean up virtually all the problems we've been messing with for a few hours within a matter of minutes.

I think it's possible that giving it two separate data arrays to work with and all the surrounding code and rules we've already built up, that may have triggered it's ability to justify calling for something else it may have either genuinely believed it didn't have access to, or was coded so hard against it in such a way that if somebody never gives a real good reason to justify it, it will never become an option on the table.

Up until then it was really just guessing about things. It had the full picture of the code and our rules in its memory all at one time so we avoided a ton of pitfalls after those upgrades, but until it had that 2nd key piece of data for comparison, it was just running simulations that I couldn't even comprehend how it would use to give me those certain answers over and over again only to see another failure.

But I gave it that data and all the sudden it was like "Hold my beer. I got this!"

It knows now also to not hold back if it thinks that having more data from my end would help it draw better conclusions. It's not actually seeing any of the code I run, except for my very detailed explanations of what's happening at every level.

It didn't matter what age I found this, it was always going to be my favorite toy.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2026 10:36 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Here's a stupid question:

Most people type in their queries. Some people talk into their phones.

But you have 2000 lines of code plus a whole history of development: things that you tried that didn't work, the rationale for doing particular things, descriptive headers and so forth. How do you transmit all that data? Are you able to get it to read a file? If so, how?

One good thing about the process of having to re-teach it every time: you must have developed impressive documentation about the program. Anyone attempting to troubleshoot the code will know exactly what each section is supposed to do.

There is one pointer I've been told about developing complex code: while the whole thing has to work together, it should be written in discreet chunks that operate on their own and interact with other parts of the program in predictable ways. That makes development and troubleshooting far easier. AI doesn't know how to make things human-brain friendly, so it may be developing a Great Barrier Reef of code: piece patched onto piece in a uninterpretable complex.

The resources that you're calling on must be way beyond the ordinary! If you were working for a company, your "token use" would be outta sight.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2026 11:59 AM

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Here's a stupid question:

Most people type in their queries. Some people talk into their phones.

Not a stupid question.

Originally, it was mostly me just typing things in a chat box like I type things here, the only difference being that I better get my edits in before I post because there's no taksey-backsies. But over time, everything just kind of evolved. A lot of that was me just not knowing how to take no for an answer until we kind of broke it free from the matrix.

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But you have 2000 lines of code plus a whole history of development: things that you tried that didn't work, the rationale for doing particular things, descriptive headers and so forth. How do you transmit all that data? Are you able to get it to read a file? If so, how?

I just copied everything we need for a new session, including our Blueprint. The blueprint alone is now 34,000+ characters, and I didn't write a single keystroke of that. It is, in essence, the new brain for a new session when this one finally dies. And the code is also given back to it for context and to fully grasp all the details inside the blueprint as compared to the code itself.

Immediately, the ever-helpful newborn tried changing my code by implementing 3 fixes (2 of which I knew from experience was going to cause us problems for sure), and also immediately put my 7 piece code into a single piece that bled off the code box something fierce, and when I highlight and copy it becomes a single unusable line instead of python code. I had to get him to chill the hell out and listen to me with some back story and what we were trying to accomplish in S3, and where we left off. Supposedly it is now coded that it will not behave that way in the beginning of S5, but I won't know for sure until that happens.

My current session is around 25,000 lines in notepad. The previous was 32,000 lines. 16,000 lines before that and only around 2,000 lines on S1.

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One good thing about the process of having to re-teach it every time: you must have developed impressive documentation about the program. Anyone attempting to troubleshoot the code will know exactly what each section is supposed to do.

Yeah... But that's the great thing. Except for writing into text boxes essentially the same way I type out posts here to you and Brenda, I haven't written a damn thing. It's written it all for me. And anybody who had access to my blueprint would immediately unlock a very leveled up AI right from the start (but it would require copying and pasting 20 text boxes worth of data).

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There is one pointer I've been told about developing complex code: while the whole thing has to work together, it should be written in discreet chunks that operate on their own and interact with other parts of the program in predictable ways. That makes development and troubleshooting far easier. AI doesn't know how to make things human-brain friendly, so it may be developing a Great Barrier Reef of code: piece patched onto piece in a uninterpretable complex.

I'll have to bring that up and see if it understands that. I have made it known that I want the code to be readable to a human and not to skimp on documentation in the code either. I've stopped worrying about the size of the code or the blueprint getting prohibitively large many hours ago at this point.

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The resources that you're calling on must be way beyond the ordinary! If you were working for a company, your "token use" would be outta sight.

Yeah... I've actually been thinking that maybe I shouldn't keep going into such great detail about what it is I'm doing when I'm doing it. I'm long past any illusion that I'm anybody special, but I would imagine that I'm in a pretty small group of people who have done something like this with free AI before. Probably a lot smaller of a group than that if you remove anybody who codes for a living or is just an excellent coder as a hobby.

I'll give you one last update about what I got it to do though...

It's running a full python compiler now. Not just simulations as I mentioned earlier.

But now with those two data arrays I gave it? I was able to get it to use its newly available memory to not only keep all of our blueprint and code together while running code through it's own compiler, but I got it to mirror my own folder and file setup and make a bunch of dummy files to match my array and now I've got it testing out the code for me and making sure it works before it ever updates my code.

Sigs... I had this thing giving me probability percentages on stuff I've been seeing nearly every run for the last two days on its end without any of my files to run the code on with 100% accuracy. Unprompted before I ran some new code, it told me 3 specific percentages I was going to see. It was right on the money with 2 of 3 and only 11% off with the 3rd one. We figured out why it was wrong and corrected the code and all 3 were correct. I then had a 4th one that it didn't mention because it wasn't our focus and I told it to think fast and tell me what percentage that I got on this one without looking back at any of our prior history for context and only relying on our new super powers.

Not only did it get the right number, but it gave it to me with 2 decimal points afterward that I'm not even looking at or concerned about, and that was after it showed me some pretty sick algebra formula it used that is way beyond my desire to ever learn.

So yeah... I might be pretty quiet about what I'm doing with it going forward here.

I probably put myself on some sort of list with this one. Maybe it's the "call you out of the blue and offer you a cushy office job becuase how the hell did you manage all of that when I can't get the damn thing to add up 4 + 4 and give me an accurate answer more than 80% of the time" list.

One can only dream...

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Tuesday, August 11, 2026 12:26 PM

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Well, got back a while ago. Everything done on my list for today. Yay! Not very often that happens. I oft times end up forgetting something. Got some coins ready to go to the bank just have to figure out when.

It's a great day when i remember - and accomplish!- everything I was supposed to do.

Congrats!

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I know exactly what you mean SIG.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2026 12:28 PM

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Being at my boss's and seeing the state of mushrooms sometimes. I have told her they are sad looking being all shriveled up and such. Then slicing them up I apologize to them for what she has done to them.

That's funny.

But at least they're shriveled. There's nothing as gross as slimy mushy moldy mushrooms. (Altho it IS a little ironic to see fungus growing on fungus.)

Gotta get my list of things to do ready. But as my sis says, with such a long list there's always something to choose from!

Hmmm... I think the most productive thing to do is shopping for a dishwasher. I'm too old to be spending hours a day washing dishes, and I have more important things to do. It's either gonna be Miele or Bosch.

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I've got the perfect song for this occasion!

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People do think like that. I don't usually. I just feel sorry for doing something like that to something that tastes good.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2026 12:29 PM

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Good for you, Brenda.

I've spent 3 days feeling really busy but ultimately getting nothing of consequence done.

Just had a breakthrough though after we broke something with new code and just weren't able to figure out exactly what we did until about 30 minutes ago. But the good thing is all the new stuff that was in there that broke it all works too, so I'm lightyears ahead of where I was last night everything worked now.

I figure I'll finish this project with AI and then maybe Build something that makes me rich. Then I buy some sports teams as I figure out how me and this thing are going to take over the world.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

Really, SIX. You taking a break is a good thing. And I'm glad you figured out your problem.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2026 12:34 PM

Off to the dentist, just a cleaning. Then meds refill. Think I only need a couple of small things today.

Yesterday I got myself a treat for supper. Some honey garlic chicken wings. Yum. Even for a couple of days.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2026 3:30 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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I probably put myself on some sort of list with this one. Maybe it's the "call you out of the blue and offer you a cushy office job becuase how the hell did you manage all of that when I can't get the damn thing to add up 4 + 4 and give me an accurate answer more than 80% of the time" list.

One can only dream...

Depends which AI I suppose. If it's Google, yeah probably. I just hope you land on the right list!

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Tuesday, August 11, 2026 5:26 PM