From the Rising

Fall 2026

Work

  • Work toward ultimate goal of getting a job by continuing to apply to 10 jobs per week, taking interviews, and of course…praying hard.
  • Work for an hour each day on my personal project, documenting my struggles and successes in a Markdown file inside the project.

House Projects

  • Clean up & organize the basement!

Family

  • Go on a trip on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad (or two — if I get a job before September 29 we’ll also do a fall scenic trip)
  • Farmer’s Market Saturdays
    • I mentioned in my planning post that I tend to be lazy on Saturday mornings. I’m thinking if I come up with a Saturday-morning system to get us out the door and get us excited to go to the farmer’s market we’ll do it more often.
  • Visit a fall-themed farm/corn maze/whatever (probably in October, but make these plans soon-ish)
  • Get the kids enrolled in piano or strings — email the school about the music academy, and test-drive the Hoffmann online piano school.

Health/Fitness:

  • Start Fuel on the CGX app! Tomorrow!!
  • Work towards getting to 145 lbs through consistent breakfasts and lunches and LESS SUGARRRRR.
  • Go on a 2-mile walk each day and/or walk 10 minutes after each meal.

Creativity:

  • Work towards getting more practiced on the DSLR by taking 10-20 pictures per day and sitting down each Sunday to process the photos.
  • Listen to 30(+) new/re-listen albums. Create a playlist of favorites!
  • Work for an hour each day on the novel outline.
  • BLOG ERR DAY
  • 1 hour audiobook & 20 minutes ebook or book-book reading per day to check off approx. 15 books from my 2026-2027 reading list

Adventures & Fun:

  • 1-2 mini-adventures:
    • Escape Room — completed 9/4/2026. Loads of fun, and we made it out with 30 seconds to spare!
  • Find 6 new geocaches — probably this can be accomplished with 2-3 dedicated geocaching trips, 1 per month. Doable!

Habits/Rhythms/Routines:

  • 1 new habit for the season: 10-15 minutes of lymphatic drainage moves in the mornings
  • Implement my seasonal meal list, create a document for it, tweak and prune as is fit.
  • Complete 12 weeks of systems from Ben Meer’s Year of Systems course (one each Sunday after church)

Other Stuff & Obligations:

  • Update the church website. Like, now. Yesterday. Immediamente.