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Owen worked his usual remote day from his parents' Montclair house, logged ~3,800 steps an…
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2026-05-31 D
Move-out day at the St. Petersburg rental. Owen cleared out of the Florida apartment — the…
2026-05-30 D
Owen stayed at the Vnek household in Montclair, NJ. Light day on activity (1,766 steps) an…
2026-05-29 D
Owen was on the road, staying at a Country Inn & Suites in Smithfield-Selma, NC — clearly …
2026-05-28 D
Owen worked remotely starting at 9 and knocked through his usual reminders — Duolingo, rob…
2026-05-27 D
Owen slept 7.7 hours and logged a low step count (2,146), with diet sitting at 1,357 kcal …
2026-05-26 D
Owen spent the morning packing with Michaela — she'd picked up extra boxes, and they decid…
2026-05-25 D
Owen flew home from Alex Hulbert's wedding weekend, leaving D. Hotel Suites & Spa in Holyo…
2026-05-24 D
Owen was in Holyoke, MA for Alex and Nikki's wedding at The Delaney House, staying at the …
2026-05-23 D
Owen slept just over 6 hours and logged a light day of eating — deli ham and bacon at lunc…
2026-05-22 D
Owen flew from Tampa to Hartford on Breeze Airways MX533 (3 PM departure) with Michaela fo…

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Owen worked from home and dealt with a hot day in NJ — at one point asking his mom Danielle to put a fan on his basement PC, which led to a back-and-forth about whether the internal fan was actually running. That issue surfaced a real problem on the home server in the basement: the CPU fan caps around 1000-1300 RPM out of 4500 max and won't ramp even at 90°C, likely a dust-clogged heatsink or worn bearing, with a fix needing to be remote-guided to his mom or done on a visit. Three concurrent ffmpeg transcodes on the photo review server pinned the CPU at 90°C as a result, prompting a semaphore-based transcode queue limit in server.py as a workaround.

Owen picked Michaela up from school at 4:20 in front of Simon's Pub after her shift ended, neither of them sure what to do for dinner. He also booked a Friday Uber to the school for 12:25 PM (initially miscommunicated as 1:05 PM), and Uber confirmed reservations for both Friday May 22 and Monday May 25. Elvis and Charles spent the afternoon trying to coordinate a last-minute steak dinner for the group, though Owen mostly stayed out of that thread — Elvis noted Josue and Charles had a "big day" at 7 AM the next morning. Owen also caught up briefly with Rene Palermo about visiting his boss in Orlando, the upcoming wedding travel (first of three weddings on Friday in Hartford), and asked what they use to protect car paint after his own clay-and-ceramic-spray treatment.

On the job-search front, applications and rejections continued to pile up: confirmations from Yahoo, OpenRouter, Natera, and White & Case. Two notable insights got logged about job-search filtering — "DevSecOps Engineer" titles split into DevOps-with-security (good fit) vs Application Security (hard mismatch requiring SAML/SAST/mobile expertise), and SRE roles often have overnight/weekend-anchored shifts buried in the JD that should be auto-skipped. Reminders completed included another "5k car payment," reviewing photos, applying to jobs, and confirming he has a tie for the weddings. Light food day at 723 kcal, 2,263 steps, 7 hours of sleep, RHR 51.