Daily — 2026-09-10

Focus-coach log. Written by the mentor from Tony's 21:00 check-in — he answers three questions and does not maintain this file. See 04_Daily/README.


Block	did not exist yet — opens 2026-09-11
Ball moved	no — setup day
Closed	nothing on Thornhill
Gym	not started (begins 2026-09-11)
Drift flags	1

Tony's words at the check-in: "Day one. We begin tomorrow."

Logged as it is, with the zeros showing. Today was not a work day and was never meant to be — there was no block to open. Saying "no" honestly on day zero is the point of the log; inflating a setup day for the sake of a green first entry would ruin the only thing it's for.

Decided today

Gym: 07:30 AM, Monday–Friday. Firm. Home ~09:00. Logged as an anchor, not a tracked goal — the WIP limit of one applies to projects.
Work block: 2 full hours per day, every day, on the active item only. Opens on Tony's arrival-home text (a real event, not a clock time a long gym session can invalidate). 28 block hours available before 2026-09-24.
Deadlines set firm: 2026-09-24 Thornhill live; 2026-10-10 Veripath binary call.
Parked: "deep sea harness" — correct name DeepSeek Harness (dsh), an MIT-licensed open-source agent harness from DeepSeek (v0.1 dev preview, released 2026-08-13). Tony deferred it himself in the same breath he raised it. Researched at his request and filed in the mentor's notes; remains parked.
Weekends: playing it by ear through 2026-09-13. Floor is 1–2 hours of work Saturday, no gym.

Correction to the plan — mentor read the vault

Two things the onboarding baseline had wrong:

The Thornhill site is already written and signed off (2026-08-30, SEO pass with Leonard). The blocker is not content — it is a deployment decision. DNS for thornhillconstruction.net resolves to 162.255.119.233, not the VPS (74.208.111.99); going live on the VPS needs root. Options: Cloudflare Pages / Netlify (no root, auto-redeploy on push) or a *.afterthedemo.com preview. Also outstanding: Yelp carries a wrong number (530-344-1504), Google Business page not listed, NAP consistency across listings.
Phoenix Salon + Spa is not a separate project — it is Veripath's current active client (Ashley, Cameron Park). It was logged earlier today as "queued next-up," which was the wrong frame; it is live client work.

Consequence

If the site is already written, the 14-day finish line is closer to 6–8 hours of work than 28. That frees block time for Veripath — the project Tony raised today as overwhelming him. A plan that parked Veripath until Oct 10 with zero scheduled hours was always going to feel bad on Oct 10.

Drift

1 flag: "deep sea harness" volunteered unprompted mid-conversation. Tony self-corrected before the mentor had to ("But I need to complete these important projects first"). Logged in coaching/drift-log.md. That is the target behaviour, not a failure.

Open

Deployment path decision — genuinely Tony's call (DNS + credentials).
Is Larry's Larry@ThornhillConstruction.net actually wired, and does the contact form submit to it? Not confirmed in the vault.
Weekend block trigger — unset by choice this week.
Veripath: what does the 2026-10-10 call actually decide? Not defined yet.

Update — later the same day

Tony corrected the mentor: the site is live. It is on WordPress + Contact Form 7, not static HTML. Verified by loading the live page: phone 530-306-4629 ×3, CSLB #336956 ×3, 11 images none broken, mailto correct, old wrong number absent from the site. His estimate: ~85% finished.

The mentor was wrong about the deployment blocker, and the cause is worth recording: it read a stale status.md (last touched 2026-08-31) and published it as current. Tony's own baseline rule is "his word is the source." A vault file is a claim with a date on it, not ground truth. The vault status file has been corrected so the next agent doesn't repeat it.

Revised remaining work, in order: (1) verify the contact form actually delivers to Larry's inbox — highest value, ~15 min, and unverified; (2) create the Google Business page — not listed; (3) fix Yelp's wrong number 530-344-1504; (4) expand the copy, which is thin at ~900 visible characters; (5) more photos, gated on Larry; (6) ~~remove the stray 🐴 from the <title> tag~~ — corrected 2026-09-11: false alarm, that was the mentor's own browser tool; the site title is clean. Nothing is blocked on DNS, root, or hosting. ≈4–6 hours of real work.

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