Today was a slam day of 150 leadership students at USC so not space for a bunch of stuff but did get my new warboard done in the morning as my Magician work and morning routine is so on lock that is non-negotiable. Happy Friday to everyone!

Magician check-in...been a week of sorting and prioritising at home. What can we offload, what can we repurpose, what should we ditch? Green shoots appearing with work. Putting a fiercely commercial eye over my pitch documents that feel a bit too idealistic currently. And (I'm squirming) saw a video interview I did with the founder of a major men's event published on YouTube (feels like I'm getting better at harnessing Sovereign energy). But first we have cyclone Vaianu barreling towards New Zealand. Looks like a bit of a monster with 140km per hour winds, and Auckland is forecast to get a months worth of rain in 12 hours. So battening things down and stocking up on batteries and water ahead of its arrival on Sunday morning.

I have not been hitting my magician goals. College visits, prom prep, and service prep have occupied much time. Time to post the vision tonight. On a drive this week, I pondered my vision. Here's what I have so far: My vision: Just be Jackie as I act justly, love tenderly, and walk humbly with God. Full disclosure: I'm reeeeally resistant toward posting my vision at all. Why? In a word: fear. I'm afraid someone won't like it. Living in that fear, though, is not what I or anyone else was made for.

No big wins / big misses, just ticked everything over. Got enough water in barrels to not worry about flushing the toilet, should we lose municipal supply 😆 Got the ventilation set up, so after the storm I'll start moving mushrooms here - no use plugging in a bunch of stuff right now. Mushrooms on the menu for next week: got 4 buckets fruiting & 2 just starting. Emma is keen to make me some fermented and some pickled for me to try, as soon as I give her some. Have a good weekend!!

Not a perfect day, but pretty good. Scrolling..... Magician month: I appreciate Jerry prompting me on my tagline, in my muddling through the week it got left behind. I have reached out to people on the "potential allies" / might help list, and struck gold, albeit a bit disheartening. A guy Ravick & I visited last week to pick up 2nd hand equipment sent me through his market analysis of a few months ago - it's not great reading but certainly helps. My goal over the weekend is just to finally get the ventilation running, and potentially a mister too. The mister I was aiming to use is blowing fuses, so I'll have to use a somewhat crappier but functional one in the meanwhile. It's humid enough to not really matter right now 🌧️ Storm's coming, so it's a bit of prep & Sunday is hunker down. My biltong should be ready by then 😅