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Archive/09Oct2025.md

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+# morning 
+- [x] pack lunch
+- [x] pick up fence
+- [x] pig chores
+- [->] sheepoline move
+
+# media consumption
+- no video/audio except podcast queue
+- Catholic action
+
+# later in the day
+- [x] follow-up and make more leads on selling hogs
+	- [x] Elliotts
+- [x] research chicory tea
+- [x] research walnut dewormer 
+- [ ] skibidi
+- [ ] 

Archive/10Oct2025.md

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+# morning 
+- [x] move hogs
+- [x] weld and paint SC parts
+- [x] wind up fence 100%
+- [ ] collect walnuts
+
+
+# media
+- [ ] read action
+- [x] only listen to podcast queue
+
+# during the day
+- [x] more pork leads
+- [x] what shop rate to charge?
+- [x] SC punch list
+
+Mr Pitts 
+

Archive/11Oct2025.md

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+# Morning 
+- [x] Water hogs
+- [x] feed hogs
+- [x] fix fence
+- [x] Feed sheep
+
+
+# Later
+- [x] Read Action
+- [x] Jack Pitts 3098258196
+- [x] Feed screenings
+- [ ] Turn pin
+- [ ] clean shop
+- [x] walnuts
+
+
+
+# Evening 
+- [ ] Dinner w gma
+- [ ] fix her phone
+- [ ] Menards - paint
+- [ ] 

Archive/12Oct2025.md

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+	How has the LORD saved me?
+	What things went right when they shouldn't have?
+
+
+
+Get list of action items and skills going
+Nick
+Q

Archive/13OCT2025.md

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+# Morning
+- [x] Move, water hogs
+- [x] Feed + water sheep
+- [x] Check paint
+- [x] Turn pin
+- [x] Talk w automated
+	- [x] Bottom bearings, replace both
+	- [x] top bearings, check both
+	- [x] middle bin fan, replace if have time, not big deal
+- [x] Wash combine windows
+- [x] open pit
+- [x] Calcs for THF 
+
+# During the day
+- [x] Run trucks...
+- [x] Put away screenings
+- [x] Freezer requirements
+- [x] Zach and Tyler into CA
+- [x] Detox phone
+- [ ] 
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Woke up 5:20 dreaming of cover crops and such
+Well, at a field day

Archive/14Oct2025.md

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+- [ ] Write
+	- [ ] what I thunk of the farm
+	- [ ] what I think of SC as a concept
+	- [ ] what I think of SC as a business
+	- [ ] what I think I should do, what the future could look like, how to ride it
+- [ ] Listen to Anxiety
+- [ ] Read SC agreement 
+<<<<<<< Updated upstream
+<<<<<<< Updated upstream
+- [ ] 
+=======
+=======
+>>>>>>> Stashed changes
+
+https://substack.com/home/post/p-171966411
+# Journaling
+
+	People create their problems by having the wrong attitude before God.
+
+I have been given the gift of some time here in the afternoon on a sunny Tuesday in the middle of harvest. Thank you.
+
+### Repentance
+
+Lord, I repent of sentimentalism. Of looking for right feelings. Of trying to feel my way into the right course of action. The emotions are calls for investigation. They are not investigation. I repent that I have misused them.
+
+That doesn't mean they should be disregarded. In fact I have disregarded them in many ways.
+
+### Raw gut feelings
+
+Here are some raw gut feelings I have. They may or may not be accurate.
+1. The farm is really disordered. It is too big. It is too empty. We run too hard during harvest.
+2. My father is not well-equipped to manage a work crew.
+3. Stock Cropper is not a very good idea as it currently exists. If it is to exist it needs a drastic tech scale-back.
+	1. A tech scale-back in a tech company? This is weird. It may be right and just but it raises fundamental questions.
+	2. Animals need space to roam.
+	3. What is the goal here? What are we trying to serve? What are we trying to do?
+	4. Is the noncompete OK?
+4. I am ordering so much stuff from Amazon and other outside entities in general. It takes a lot of tools to make things work around here.
+5. Do I just need to directly work to make a living / help those around me?
+	1. can it be the farm?
+	2. can it be engineering stuff?
+	3. it can't be this grain farming nonsense
+6. Am I going to need to leave here?
+	1. I am not really tethered still
+	2. But I still feel somewhat responsible for my family. They are a mess.
+7. Are my talents of more use ecclesially? Particularly, taste, intellect, virtue
+8. Sheep aren't gaining like they ought to be.
+9. I'm not helping THF like I ought to be.
+10. I'm stretched thin.
+11. I have no social life right now.
+12. My social prospects are not well.
+13. Everything is becoming fake.
+14. We need to solve real problems, not move deck chairs. What are the real problems?
+	1. Lack of togetherness
+	2. Lack of good food
+	3. Lack of good work
+	4. Lack of good spaces
+	5. Food. Work. Spaces. Music and liturgy too. But food. Work. Spaces. These are the basics.
+15. Ousett's *Action* is convicting. 
+
+### The pressing questions
+1. Do I take the SC agreement, or leave it?
+2. Do I move out of the house (either to Joyce, or Kathy's)?
+3. What do I need to focus on?
+
+### What is the most impressive/important angle?
+Item 14 above. Solve real problems, don't move deck chairs. Quality food, work, spaces. How to get here?
+##### A direct approach - same place, different focus?
+- Move more acreage over to livestock production
+- Build a house - no, build several houses - build a neighborhood
+##### The things that are in front of me
+- Build up StockCropper
+- Use that tech to convert acreage to livestock production
+##### I feel like I need better options.
+
+	The room holds us, but sometimes, that’s not why we stay. We actually stay because we don’t yet know how to live without its framing.
+
+I don't need to solve everything now
+But I also shouldn't make excuses...
+
+Make no compromise with evil
+
+### Listing perspectives
+- You SHOULD - it has been presented to you
+- You SHOULD - it is a way to knit your talents with the right direction
+- You SHOULD NOT - it is not really the endpoint; it is too technologically complicated
+- You SHOULD NOT - it is not a shape of work that you can pass on
+- You SHOULD NOT - it is not social enough
+- You SHOULD - there can be other fruits that come of this
+- You SHOULD - it is a way to grow in knowledge and ability to make things
+- You SHOULD NOT - you need to be invested and in the driver's seat
+<<<<<<< Updated upstream
+- You SHOULD NOT - you are too geographically decentered
+>>>>>>> Stashed changes
+=======
+- You SHOULD NOT - you are too geographically decentered
+>>>>>>> Stashed changes

Archive/15Oct2025.md

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+- [x] Call Wideners
+- [x] call Bruhls
+- [ ] journal more
+- [ ] print rerum novarum
+- [ ] plan for Nestor?

Archive/21Oct2025.md

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+> Honesty is the best policy
+> You have to be honest with a partner - or at least a potential one
+> Love not leverage
+
+Things have been very hectic and busy
+We'll be wrapped up in a week unless anything drastically unforeseen happens
+Loaded up pigs & went to butcher yesterday - learned handling is hard
+
+Really thinking and rethinking the entire concept. What's necessary, where to use, what's the actual item to sell, form factor, etc. - and there's probably some room to be doing some drawing up of new ideas in this space
+
+Only 1 thing seems off in docs, gonna get lawyer review soon
+
+
+...
+
+we're gonna do it
+the ship is flexible
+we're gonna do it
+give up the ego
+we're gonna do it
+
+
+enjoy the day
+take opportunities
+make things right
+do not fret
+do not worry
+regain creativity

Archive/Catholic Intranet.md

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+	If the Amish, or Benedictine monks, or medieval peasants, built an inter/intra-net, what would it look like?
+
+The internet has a lot of problems. It is not just that there are some bad actors. Actually, the very shape of it incentivizes bad actors. It is malformed. We should not be surprised that it has devolved to the point it is today.
+
+I don't think this technology is going away. It has too many benefits. But how can we radically re-form it? Let's look at a few aspects:
+
+# The World Wide Web Monetizes Attention
+This has been pretty much beat to a pulp. The WWW wants you to use it. It doesn't want to help. It wants to extract. It wants to become the dominant thing. This is, to put it frankly, evil.
+
+The solution is self-hosting. But self-hosting has two issues. Firstly, not everyone can do it. It's not easy. Maintaining a server is a part-time job. There's a reason we have tended towards economies of scale in computing (though, there are also dis-economies of scale at play too). Grandma isn't going to self-host. Any solution we come up won't be self-hosted, actually.
+
+We can't be antisocial. That second issue is actually my second point.
+# The World Wide Web is Flat
+The web as we know it now is very flat. You immediately connect to the same server as everyone else. (I know it isn't exactly this simple, and that distributed computing systems are actually at play, but the FUNCTION is as if they were a monolith.)
+
+This mirrors the big-boxification that we have seen in stores. 
+It is not simply enough that there are multiple redundant systems. What we want is actually the capacity for individuals to have care and agency over how the internet is governed - and this requires that the net be segmented into pieces, communities, parishes. These pieces should probably mirror the geographical boundaries outside.
+
+We want a hierarchical network. We want federation not simply because of reliability, but because you need fences and limits to build healthy cultures.
+
+# The World Wide Web is Anonymous
+Anonymity can lead to a lot of bad actions. But it is motivated because exposing your entire identity to the entire world is dangerous. Hierarchy solves this problem. It permits us the freedom to be safely known.
+
+The World doesn't want this decentralized approach to privacy so it resorts to oppressive social credit scores. We don't want this. We already have social credit scores - it's called rapport with your neighbor. This is fine. Let's not supplant this. Let's build an Intranet that actually builds on top of this existing network of trust rather than trying to eschew it.
+
+# Characteristics of a Good Intranet
+- Community-sized. Not a server for every house: a server for every parish. (Maybe a server for every diocese to start?)
+- Hierarchical / Local: Serves/interacts with content in your community. Content is appropriately moderated (but not with a heavy hand).
+- Fairly easy to maintain, using FOSS tools
+- Reconfigurable to meet the needs of a local community
+- No anonymity - neither by having identity hidden, nor by being so large that you get lost in the crowd
+- Substantial - legitimately replaces the structures of sin of the WWW
+- Gifted - not rent-seeking, legitimately paid for by the community that uses it in ways that are charitable
+# A Day with the Catholic Intranet
+
+This morning, I've got to haul a few loads of grain to our neighbor across the county. It's a 45 minute drive, so I pull out my phone before hitting the road, to get it connected to the cab radio. I open up Symfonium, which has downloaded music from the community server. It's by no means an exhaustive library. It has some classics - Bach, Beethoven, and other recordings (which were public domain). My neighbor Jim ripped a bunch of CDs and put the mp3 files on there - he's pretty into Dave Brubeck. But a large swath of what's on here is stuff that our community has recorded themselves. A few things are files that have migrated over from community to community, too (I'm personally quite fond of the Appalachian Orthodox recordings that have made it onto here). I notice that the Hutchinson kids' album of Gregorian chant that they recorded last month is on the server now (my neighbor Bill is one of the admins, he and a few other folks are the only ones that can approve additions to the library). I tap on it to stream it.
+
+It's simply delightful. We don't have the same sort of novelty that people have with Spotify - but we have our own unique sort of novelty, and it's a novelty that I care all the more of, because it's my neighbor.
+
+I'm midway through the Dies Irae when it cuts out and my son butts in over (the localized equivalent of) Zello. He's looking for a pulley puller in the shop and they're not where he expected. I radio back over the Zello and tell him that I was using it on the work truck.
+
+Back at the office I sit down at my computer to add a few receipts. I took pictures of the receipts and they auto-uploaded into the Immich instance on the server. I download the pictures from Immich and move them to my receipts folder (inside my documents). The whole documents folder syncs back up over Nextcloud. My wife (and secretary) gets the files quickly synced to her documents folder as well.
+
+As I finish up for the day I check the community bulletin board (just a Mastodon(?) instance on the server). Karen has a few extra baskets she no longer needs, Jennifer is looking for homesitting while their family is going off on vacation in a few weeks, and Joe is having a block party tomorrow night. Posts are limited to pretty practical affairs here. The big questions are discussed in person where real nuance can be had.
+
+File syncing of course extends beyond the family. It's easy to share any records and documents with anyone - just add the new choir member to the choir folder, and voila, they've got access to all the sheet music! 
+When people are working on documents simultaneously, Collabora is a great help.
+
+Nextcloud is nice but not for everyone. My neighbor Jonathan runs a fabrication business and for the engineering, they want more regimented version control and branching - which git is perfect for. So we also have a gitea instance on the community server (even though it's not strictly necessary for the use of git, it sure makes things nicer). 
+
+You might be wondering - where is this server anyways, and who's funding it? Well, it's at my neighbor James' house - he's got a really high-speed fiber line so it just made sense. The next parish over actually keeps theirs, well, at their parish! James is the system administrator - you talk to him if you've got any troubles. It's crowdfunded - it pays for the server hardware and the network connection, and a small salary for James. Since we use the thing a lot and can afford it my business donates a lot. But there's  a lot of not-so-well-off families that just use it free of charge.
+
+My neighbor Alex has his own server that mirrors ours. Alex is on a low-speed internet connection so he needs to have that local cache.
+
+Oh, and of course, the parish website is hosted here. In fact everything is actually subdomains on that parish website.

Archive/Meal Prep.md

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+
+# Energy
+1oz walnuts - 200 cal
+1 egg - 87 cal
+1oz cheese - 115 cal
+1oz bacon - 133 cal
+1oz ham - 40 cal
+1 cup cream (whipped) - 400cal
+sardines / anchovies?
+
+ok clearly ham is worthless let's not eat that
+
+#### Ways to do cold meat
+- grape leaves
+- just get a 12v slow cooker!
+- use the kettle?
+
+#### Kettle ideas
+- Kielbasa in kraut
+- Italian sausage in marinara
+- ground beef - mexican bowl
+# Suppliment
+- Peppers
+- Berries
+- Apples (you'll have plenty of these this year...)
+- Broccoli
+- 
+
+
+# Sample meals
+
+### A - 1120cal
+- 3oz walnuts - 600cal
+- 2 eggs, soft boiled - 175cal
+- 3oz cheese - 345cal
+- Apple
+
+### B - 
+- 4oz bacon - 532cal
+- 2 eggs, soft boiled - 175cal
+- 1oz cheese - 115cal
+- whipped cream - 400cal
+- strawberries
+
+# Typical haul, then
+needs to wind up at 14000 calories
+- 2# bacon - 4200
+- 1# cheese - 1840
+- 2 cup heavy cream - 1600
+- (1 doz eggs) - 1044
+- 2# walnuts - 6400
+^ that's 15000. If you can sub something for the bacon do it. You're gonna burn through walnuts fast as well.
+
+- (apples)
+- peppers, broccoli, berries

Archive/Punchlist.md

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-# You gotta do this
-- [ ] Put all quotes and vendor communications in place
-	- [x] AZCO
-	- [x] Sonitek
-	- [x] Macron
-	- [ ] Atlantic
-- [x] Resize all actuators and finalize their locations
-- [/] Call Sonitek, ship sample material [15 min]
-- [ ] Update clickup [15 min]
-- [x] Tidy up all calculations [2 hr]
-	- [x] Put standards in / refine product spec
-	- [x] Move all calculations to Sticks control and drives
-	- [x] Flag calcs
-	- [x] Moment calcs
-	- [x] Timing calcs
-- [ ] Torque for ball valve
-
-# Someone's gotta do this
-- [ ] Resize layup table cable carrier
-- [ ] Gearboxes and Motors into CAD
-- [ ] Redesign frames
-- [ ] Home sensors
-- [ ] Tube/wire routing
-- [ ]