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Summer in LA. The heat reorganizes the day around itself, so everything happens early or late and not much in between.

1. Health 18.5% body fat Almost 25 in January, 21 in April. Sub-15 by the end of the year is still the number. ↳ down from 21% in May
2. Hobby The Harley, early mornings Out to Superba or Blue Bottle, then coffee and the journal. I think that hour is the best one I get.
3. Grinding No golf course this month Took the whole month out and put those hours into work and the gym instead.
4. Grinding Studio Golf, El Segundo The mat and the launch monitor. Cutline open on the side now. ↳ ongoing since May
5. Building NOVA Not the project anymore, it is the tool. My Jarvis. The whole life runs through it now. ↳ was "total hack mode" in May
6. Reading Possibilities Herbie Hancock. ↳ Finished
7. Reading Garden City John Mark Comer. Still going, slowly, which is the right speed for it.
8. Reading God's Homecoming N. T. Wright. Same, slowly.
9. Hobby Open Studio Studying jazz properly. Reading Hancock was part of the same plan, not a coincidence.
10. Music FATHERS Blue Note. Kenny Beats, Kiefer, CARRTOONS and Nate Smith. Jazz textures over hip-hop beats and funk grooves.
11. Podcasts Our Church Speaks Season 5. Saints, one at a time.
12. Watching Spider-Man: Brand New Day Great movie.
13. Watching Ready or Not Both films. Bizarre, really well made, the acting especially. The surprise of the year.
14. Watching Welcome to Wrexham The best reality show on TV by far. It moves you, makes me laugh and cry and enjoy soccer as I did when I was a kid. It is real life Ted Lasso!
15. Gear Supernote Writing by hand again, on purpose.
16. Gear Moft wallet Carrying almost nothing now.

Birthday month. It is night. Quiet. The window is open so I can feel the cool down of the end of a day.

1. Health DEXA scan, May 10 Last measurement 21%. Sub-15% by end of year is the goal.
2. Grinding Palm Springs, four rounds in two days My first real golf trip. I keep telling people and watching their faces.
3. Grinding A tournament, mid-May Small stakes, big nerves.
4. Grinding Studio Golf, El Segundo The mat. The launch monitor. Tee Time Trainer open on the side, drills loaded.
5. Building NOVA My local LLM. Total hack mode. 8 to 10 hours a day on Skills. Exciting like I am a teenager coding again.
6. Reading The Tiger Slam Kevin Cook. Reading it before Palm Springs. ↳ Finished
7. Reading Hidden Potential Adam Grant. For the work. For me. ↳ Finished
8. Podcasts The Rest is History Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook making the past sound urgent.
9. Podcasts The Rest is Classified Spies, intelligence, real stakes.
10. Podcasts Bola Presa Keeps me in the loop during the NBA Playoffs.
11. Gear The Club Caddy Jain.
12. Gear Nike Infinity Tour 2 US Open Pack.