The week the Mac mini arrived, systems found their foundation, and family grounded everything.

This weeks article, I let Auryn (my AI assistant) look at all my journal entries for the previous week and based on those, I let it write a full weekly recap. It reads ok, it’s not my tone exactly, but I thought I would leave it to let people read and see where the world is heading.

From Laptops to Always-On

I’ve been testing OpenClaw on laptops for weeks, watching them sleep through important moments and miss messages that mattered. The community doesn’t sleep — support requests come in …

Photo of a #Koala taken at the #AustraliaZoo to cheer up your days.

An attempt of a long exposure shot by hand on a moving platform by the waters edge at #FelonsBreweryCo in Brisbane. This is a photo of the #StoryBridge.

Some photos taken at #AustraliaZoo with #RobertIrwin at the #Crocoseum doing a show and educating us into the dangers of crocodiles on the waters edge vs on land.

This week we flew as a family to Queensland to spend time with family up in Brisbane.

We had a lot of fun as a family and done quite a few activities during the week. It was very humid, but we managed to push through and get the most out of the trip.

I also did some self-learning of Blender where I made a few models for our #SLColonies community and used AI to generate me some seamless textures to use in modelling.

I think next I will dabble with learning how to sculpt on a high poly model and then bake the normals in to get detail without the use of the extra polygons.

Ariyah’s 10th Birthday …

Along with my learning of Luau scripting. I have dabbled in Blender courses and taught myself to make models do our Indy game #SLColonies.

I’ve been so happy with the progress.

Here’s a screenshot of a chilli plant 🌶️ and another of an unfinished cherry tree 🍒

This week, and this new year, I started with new goals and achievements for myself.

These goals are set amongst my work life, family life, and other personal hobby-type goals for my own personal creativity and to keep my brain ticking.

For work, I plan on completing more courses to enable me to upgrade my position on a more regular basis, with the goal to get a permanent position around the 2027 year.

For my hobbies, I will continue to do my photography journey but have given myself an extra push to get more involved with my SL Colonies project that I have had going for numerous years now. And …

This week is mostly about my passion project known as SL Colonies, which is a full RPG world building kit within Second Life.

We have a small, but active community within this project that enjoy using our system to create RPG worlds with farming, gathering, hunting, crafting, quest making and more. Enjoy the read! I know it’s been a while!

Discourse Updates

I run a community within Second Life that is known as SL Colonies. With this community comes the need for a place to store all our knowledge, questions, answers and communication.

We also use Discord. But what I have found over the years is …

Last week I had a week off from work. I am fortunate in that in my line of work we get 9 weeks of annual leave and can apply to purchase another up to 4 weeks of what’s known as ATO leave. I was approved for 2 further weeks leave, which comes out of my pay, but gives me 11 weeks off for the year - which I like to spread out to approximately 1 week off per month.

This gives me ample time to spend with my family and kids, and of course, my own down-time for personal hobbies which helps in distressing, re-grounding and resilience.

Anyway, with the week off, I managed to do a lot around the home …

I think I will stop making these recaps on a perfect weekly basis and instead make recaps when that week has had significant, fun things that are worth reading about, and that are not too private.

I still keep a daily journal on my new Apple, and I like to reflect on all my thoughts on a weekly basis, but I will curate what I wish to share publicly at the end of each week, and if there is enough to share, I will …

The weather was perfect for most of the week. So this recap is filled with exciting stuff!

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Tasks Completed: 34/42 (81% Completion) Total Observations: 1 Total Thoughts Posted: 12 Total Photos Posted: 1

I’m quite happy with this weeks task accomplishments. I managed to complete 34 out of my weekly 42 tasks I had set out. That’s an 81% completion rate!

What are these tasks though? Well, they are daily routines that I wish to accomplish before the end of the day. These include things like meditation, exercise and reading, along with a few other things. A usual routine, that I should be able to accomplish daily without excuse!

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I feel like I had a pretty unproductive week. And I do my best to blame the fact that I was on #NightShift for the week at work, but really, as much as I can whine and carry on that I was a little tired, looking back, I could have pushed forward and at least ticked off my tasks instead of sit at the computer screen not really doing much.

Disappointed in myself yet again this week. I need to find myself better methods to ensure that I complete what I had set out to do. read more

But, I still had a fun week!

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I started off the week with some interesting signs being sent to me throughout the day. Bit hard to put into words, but lets just say that the universe was nudging me at the beginning of the week into a certain direction by continuously sending me signals, or, signs. And they were not just coincidental, here are some examples.

While binge-watching the silo series, it would continue to pause every 30 seconds to 1 minute - making the watching of it a task. I did not think too much about it at first, until it got so annoying that I thought I would try to time the period between pausing to see …

I tend to get on the PC with a coffee and get dug into other things that interest me more. But the physical grind is a necessity to reach my other physical goals.

I keep telling myself that a way around this would be to do the tasks first, before jumping onto the PC to do anything else. Why don’t I just do that then? What is it that is stopping myself? …

I had a big week, all things considered. As at the end of this week, we went out all the way to #LakesEntrance as a family. A 4-hour drive each way and loads of activities to do, that the 2 nights were just not enough to get everything done. We definitely have to go back!

In saying that though, having a quick glance at the beginning of the week, and really, as a whole. I did 1 day of my exercise and reading. Once again disappointing myself with my fitness goals, as last week. I can probably forgive myself for the first day, due to it being more of a recovery day from night shift. Looks like …