# Daily — 2026-09-12

> Mentor log. Written from Tony's own report.

| | |
|---|---|
| Block | did not open — day off, declared in advance |
| Ball moved | n/a — declared rest day |
| Closed | nothing (by design) |
| Gym | no report |
| Drift flags | 0 |

**Tony's words:** *"I've been just working on a few things this morning, but mostly I'm going to plan on
having a nice day today. I'll return back to work on Monday."*

Logged as a declared day off, not a missed one. He'd set the weekend rule himself — play it by ear,
floor of 1–2 hours on Saturday — and he was above that floor before noon, so this isn't a drift event
and doesn't get counted as one.

## Decided today

- **Contact paused until Monday.** All five check-ins (06:30, 12:30, 16:30, 21:00, 21:30) suspended
  Saturday and Sunday; a job restores them automatically Monday at 05:45, before the 06:30 brief.
- **Arithmetic run, because "how much time is left?" is the question that actually matters:**
  - Today Sat 12 Sep → finish line Thu 24 Sep = **9 business days = 18 block hours**
  - Less his pre-booked Grok Bot sessions (~3.5h) = **14.5 hours**
  - Remaining Thornhill work ≈ **6 hours**
  - **Verdict: comfortable.** The only real threat to Sept 24 is weekday blocks that don't run — not
    a weekend off.
- **Sept 25 → Oct 10 = 22 block hours** of runway for Veripath before the binary call.

## Learned

- **Dr. Eggbot.** He asked what it is. Verified: a **Grok Bot** on the Grok Bot Marketplace
  (`x.ai/bot/marketplace/bots/dr-eggbot-v2`), listed by Lauren Tan — a *bot that builds bots*.
  Origin of the interest is **his brothers** recommending it, which is why it's not logged as AI-news
  drift. It already has a slot: the **Sept 15–17 Grok Bot sessions** he booked himself.
- Nothing else filed. (Friday evening: getting familiar with GrokBot; nothing concrete reported.)

## Drift

- None today. Worth noting the contrast: the same week he opened with AI news at 06:48 and an
  agents-building-something evening produced a *finished* profile category on day one. The pattern
  isn't "he can't focus" — it's that unstructured time is where it goes.

## Open

- **Larry:** travel radius to confirm. The Aug-28 handoff file documents a 7-town service area
  (Placerville, Cameron Park, Shingle Springs, El Dorado Hills, Pollock Pines, Diamond Springs,
  Somerset) — confirm rather than ask open-ended.
- **Email:** `larry@` forward · Hostinger allow list for form mail · old Gmail → new forward.
- **WordPress admin:** sitemap 404 · missing Open Graph tags · schema `@type` still `GeneralContractor`
  · Flamingo · WP Mail SMTP · expanded page copy. All queued behind credentials.
- **Veripath 10 Oct:** decision criteria still undefined — promised, not delivered.
- **Monday's block is already named:** the contact form's mail.
- **Unanswered, not chased:** what his brothers actually use Dr. Eggbot for. Decides whether it earns a
  scoped queue entry after Sept 24 or stays curiosity.
- **No 21:00 / 21:30 report** — check-ins paused for the weekend by design, so the evening is unknown,
  not empty.

See also: [[04_projects/thornhill-website/status]] · `coaching/notes/site-audit.md`