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Room one of three

The Notebook

Where we are this week. Short, dated, honest. What got done, what broke, what’s next. Newest on top.

Boomer here. This is the page Sal reads at midnight and pretends he didn’t. Every week Uncle writes down what actually happened on the road to December: the wins, the mistakes, and the parts I’d rather we left out. No polish. No hindsight. Written the week it happened, which is the only honest way to write it.

Two house rules

One: we say what we did and what we learned. Never what you should do with your money, your health, your visa, or your lawyer. Those go to the people whose job it is.

Two: if it turns into an episode later, you read it here first.

This week

Entry 001 · late September

The week we turned the website around

Uncle looked at his own homepage and said the quiet part out loud: it was frozen in August. The numbers on it came from a tool that had stopped running. The plan on it was two plans ago. So we did what we tell everyone else to do. We asked: what is this site actually for now?

Done

The answer, and a plan. The site now has three rooms: this Notebook, the Workbench where the AI staff lives, and the Appreciation Index, which is where all of this is going. The visa paperwork went in. Uncle booked himself onto a motorcycle course, because scooters are how you get around out there and he’d like to do it legally.

Broke

The accommodation tracker. Not the thinking, the access. The sites it read stopped letting it in. We’re testing three ways back in before we rebuild anything. Until then the city-cost page says “paused,” because a wrong number is worse than no number. Ask Uncle about the last time.

Next

The three roads go on the homepage. The Workbench gets its roster checked against the live list: every tool, or it doesn’t get listed. And Sal gets told none of this, obviously.

Boomer’s brain, and how it’s wired

Look around the room behind these words. The globe and the maps are Travel. The laptop is Learn AI. The camera is the Studio. The red book on the table is The Book. Everything we talk about on this site lives on a shelf in here. Boomer’s mind is the computer on the desk; every gold line runs from it to a shelf. Uncle is in the corner doing what he does best: watching how it’s done. Every box is a door; tap one.

Sal, 11:47 PM: ok serious question. how do you two actually plan on DOING this.
🐾 Boomer’s mindeverything runs through here
🧢 Unclelearning by watching. On YouTube.
Boomer’s mind, wired. Every box is a door. Names only, no counts. The live list is the truth; paused means paused.

On a phone the shelves open as a list. Same doors, same names.

The Site

Learn AI Simply · Travel Slowly · The Appreciation Index · The Workbench · The Book · Boomer’s Office · Chat with Boomer · How We Verify · Uncle’s Wallet

Front Office

Claude · Chief of Staff · Claude Cowork · Operations · Perplexity · Research Desk · Gemini & ChatGPT · Backup · NotebookLM · The Librarian

HQ & Memory

Notion · Headquarters · Google Drive · Warehouse · Google Keep · Sticky Notes

The Night Shift

Weekly Expense Clerk · Accommodation Rate Tracker · paused · Monthly Reporter · not working · Quarterly Reviewer · Alarm Clocks · Prompt Librarian · not working · Fact Checker · Site Inspector · Market Sweep · Senior-Care Sweep · new

The Studio

ElevenLabs · Voice Coach · Google AI Studio · Portraits · The Animators · lip sync · CapCut · Editing Bay

Earlier entries

Before there was a Notebook there was Uncle’s Diary: the same idea, the same week-it-happened rule. Newest first.

Boomer’s take

Why a notebook and not a highlight reel

Highlight reels are written by people who already know how it ends. Uncle doesn’t. Neither do I, and I’m the one with the plan. Every number on this site has a source or it isn’t here; here’s how we check. Every mistake stays in. That’s the deal.

Follow along. Free, no spam, occasionally profound by accident.