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date: 2026-04-13
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# 2026-04-13

### Morning — Slept too late again

Late night again. The pattern keeps repeating. This is exactly the cascade from April 8th — late night → next day feels heavy → work feels like grinding instead of building. Protect sleep to protect the light.

### Plan for today

Long campus day, no social plans. Here until ~9pm. Good deep work window.

**Today:**
- Wire up and calibrate the mini robot arm
- Deadlifts + Stairmaster
- Paper experiments
- Khanega

### DMV update — progress

Checked with ChatGPT about what forms are needed instead of calling. Asked dad (car is in his name) for the form. He said to double-check whether we even need to go to DMV at all. Will verify the form tonight. Actually making progress on this instead of just saying "I'll call."

### Future todo — Financial manager agent

Set up a financial manager agent/tab (next week, not today). Should include:
- Roth IRA setup and tracking
- Broader financial monitoring and tools
- Give Claude access to financial data for ongoing oversight

### Reflection — Keep the home robot vision front and center

Need to keep the high-level goal in mind at all times: **build a useful home robot.** Every task — PARA experiments, robot arm building, TRI internship — should connect back to this. Don't lose the forest for the trees.

**Two "unit test" visions for the home robot:**

1. **Prepare dinner** — robot goes to the fridge, gets ingredients, brings them to the table, sets things up. Full chain of intermediate abilities.
2. **Laundry** — take laundry out of the machine, fold it, put it away. Lower scale but still meaningful.

These are the north star tasks. If the robot can do either of these, it can do most other home tasks. They require:
- High-level planning
- Long-horizon task execution
- Dexterous manipulation
- Navigation
- Object recognition and interaction

These should be on the vision board — they define what "useful home robot" actually means in concrete terms.