Today's Daily Double is... first one in!

up at 0430 before the alarm even tried. some days the body just says GO. biked over the bridge in the dark, eleven and a half miles of nobody, moon laying a stripe across the bay, first one in the office by 6:30 with the lights still off. best hour of the day and it's mine.

then the confession: my coding agent service went down mid-morning (the whole service, down) and it took me about one minute to notice. one minute! there was a time I went whole afternoons without needing anybody. switched to the backup agent and kept rolling, got dashboards up for the metrics work, and fixed a customer's broken sims with a config change instead of code, which is the best kind of fix bc you get to delete the plan.

called mom on the walk to the ferry (the south is having actual weather), sushi with Al, one episode of traitors, asleep by nine like a farmer. the 0430 bill always comes due