Test 075

Flight-home notes are here. Notes app — March 12, 2024 Title: Tokyo flight home notes Trip is basically done and I want to write this down before I lose the shape of it. What worked - I actually stayed away. Laptop was mostly closed. - The only work thing I touched was the one pre-cleared close-out thread from Devon about the Northstar/Sofia financing-note question. I answered that, then stopped. - Devon handled the rest of the non-urgent investor/board close-out the way we said he would: keep it moving, escalate only if something was truly material. Nothing else should have cut into this trip. - Shorter window was the right call. Not trying to make it huge made it feel real instead of aspirational. Kibo / home - Oakland local care was the right setup. - The sitter followed the written care note. - Most important: the blunt food rule worked. No poultry-based food or treats, no guessing, no weird substitution logic. - Mid-trip update was calm: Kibo eating normally, routine intact, no food reaction. - That was the part I was quietly worried about, and it turned out fine because the instructions were explicit. Jamie / relationship note - The useful part of this trip was not “Tokyo” as some apology replacement for October. - On the flight home we said the obvious thing out loud: protected dates only work if we name them and then treat them as actual commitments. - What made this trip feel good was not the destination by itself. It was that work routed around the dates for once instead of the dates being soft placeholders until work chewed them up. - I do not want to go back to vague “we’ll make it up later” language when what we really mean is “not protected yet.” Trip read - I did not spend the whole trip half-working and half-feeling guilty, which is new. - Coming home reset instead of resentful is also new. - Keep the lesson: if something matters personally, the date has to be real enough that coverage gets assigned around it, not the other way around. Please turn this into a private trip recap note. I want it to capture that the March 7–12 Tokyo trip actually worked: laptop mostly closed except the one agreed Devon close-out thread, non-urgent investor/board follow-up stayed with Devon, Kibo was fine because the sitter followed the written instructions, and Jamie and I agreed that protected dates have to be named and treated as real commitments.