My tiny baby just spent 12 days by himself in Peru, hiking the Andes, eating questionable organ meats from street vendors, petting baby alpacas, and having an incredible experience. His phone went missing on day two, which led to mom being even more out of my mind than usual. But thanks to the kindness of strangers, he would check in every day from different WhatsApp numbers sending photos and this simple message: todo bien.

My knees and feet have been bugging me for awhile now, which I attributed to aging but which in reality was more likely causing me to age. "A cope", as the youths might say.

So I did what every GenXer would do and told Claude to code me a kneehab program as well as a very basic desk-to-5K run walk program that would have me run walking a 5K on Mother's Day. On rest days, I can ride my bike outside or row in the basement, depending on weather. I wanted it to be so simple that I could not NOT do it.

Did I have to reduce complexity and scope based on my initial requirements, yes. Did I spend more time prompting than running, of fucking course. Did I overengineer it with unit tests and security scans and CI/CD, welll yeah. But am I in my third week of my program, doing something I suspected I'd never do again, without pain, yes I am! HIGH FIVE ME.

We are all constant iterations. Check out my plan if you want: amasis.com/plan

It's sooooo nice so I rode up to meet my tiny baby riding home from school. I caught him not only wearing a helmet and no earbuds, but he even had his flashing rear light turned on.

Todos bien.