Today's Daily Double is... the lunchtime dog run!

4:45am wake up, biked into the city in the cold dark, and a teammate was ALREADY THERE with his laptop glowing. lit a fire under me, the good kind.

but the headline of day four: al couldn't get home midday and lady needed out, so at lunch i took a ferry across an entire bay and biked to the dock to let one (1) german shepherd pee. stood with her on the gangway ten minutes while she sniffed everything twice, then rode and floated all the way back to my desk. round trip about three hours of transit for four minutes of dog. zero regrets. she did the full body wag when i came through the door (it's LUNCH and yet HE'S HERE), and the empty midday ferry felt less like an errand and more like getting away with something.

between all that: first real 1-1 with the guy i work closest with, good talk, these people are into the craft same as me. stood up a lil pipeline so the background sounds can actually be previewed, click and hear the coffee shop, instead of picking your noise blind off a label. also found a knob in the product that don't quite do what its label says. that investigation is for tomorrow-me.

evening: the fellas from the startup across the hall cooked everybody dinner, then the warriors beat the knicks and we hollered like shareholders. asleep by 11:30. gratitude list for today just says pals