Already approaching nine o’clock.  The morning doesn’t wait.  I need more espresso.  Not sure I’ll make it to the cafe. Henry’s cough stopped, for the moment.  Now he sings to h… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Just thinking about my kids and have been, just them, since I left bed.  Henry still sleeping

and with a bit of a cough, poor bloke.  Emma up before anyone I believe and just hanging in her room.  Their mom gets them at 10:00 and that will be here quicker than anything.  Heading to Vacavill… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

11:02…….. Beyond inspired or motivated.  I’m deliciously stubborn.  I will get what I want, all for my kids, and that’s it.  Speaking to myself like I’m the Professor and student and… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Note…

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@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Now. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

10-20-23 —> Two hardboiled eggs, iced latte 4 shots, at the desk.  New-new Mike Madigan character and way.  Colleague working with me a little later on ticket generation and management… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

The way I manifest something…. Write it into tangibility.

Brought the rest of my lunch, leftover charcuterie elements from last night, into my office.  Snacking on desk.  Mood is still off, but trying to adjust, right it somehow with words and thinking of… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

10-19-23

Site visit at 08:30 in American Canyon.  Arrived in office at around, what, 10:45?  Something like that? Town Hall-style meeting with team, just now sipping the coffee I got with Andy at some gas s… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Wine… always there reminding me not to be too far away, that she’s there for the story and the story is ours.

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@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Awe, love, purpose. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

13:07 —> Walked to office supply store a couple doors down, get gum.  Latte, 3 hardboiled eggs, and a sandwich, all I’ve consumed today.  Beautiful outside, fucking perfect running wea… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Distraction and doubters that try to dilute or derail me… such clowns.  Each of my movements, all sentences and pictures, business conversations, more for the structure – the Architectur… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

10-18-23 08:53 office.  Latte again this one not iced.  Dinner with Chris last night, as it used to […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

#professormikey

QUESTION…. What are some things you write about everyday?  Specifically, in your journal? | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

8 years ago, Pinot tasting in RRV | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

11:25 Need a quick meditation… didn’t move, didn’t blink, just realized where I am and what I’m doing – what I’ve been through the past year. No more of that stress, no more of that worry and… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

gratitude morning

10-17-23 Switched up my order at Pete’s, and like the Nurse said I think I’ve officially broken up with Starbucks.  Not sure why I find that so funny.  I don’t know, the randomness of the… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Too much to summarize, do it quickly.  Site walk and meeting in Bennett Valley. 

Back to office to send a few emails, home for a call with Mom and Dad, then a FaceTime with the Nurse while she’s in her second-to-last night in NYC… laughing with me, joking, sweet sentences, ever… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

10:15… into it.  DEEP. Meeting in a bit.  Need more coffee.  Maybe?  Just a small cup.  Brought lunch, […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

10-16-23 08:58 Checking emails.  This new story, my whole story.  All parts and Roads I’m on.  Learning new tech, using old methods and revisiting old notes.  All for the kids.&… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

16:04

….. Laundry done.  Unbelievable.  Long drive with kids, little grocery stop, or not so little, now Henry and […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Scribble always….. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Henry

Yesterday… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Barrels in their Scenic Jail | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

08:48

Up well before 07:00, laundry continued.  Think I have a new system.  At 44, good job Mike. Espresso, […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Withdraw Visible

Showing some moment Names, reported.. I don’t care. Her doors and words, when she first sees me Translation […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Hours and hours and hours later, back at loft.  Looking through pictures and establishing myself in photog lock.  […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Harvest 10 years ago, Sonoma Valley. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Realization after realization this morning.  Laundry, Emma in the shower, Henry and Jack

down here with me.  Home is the paradigm and model, Beat and pace and song for everything.  I’ve […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Commute the other day, from Vacaville… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

HEALTH….

My sole focus.  To be alive and happy as long as I can for my babies.  That’s pretty […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Who’s got what, it doesn’t matter.  Focus on your character, I remind myself…

your story your pages your Beat your music.  Feel your own music, change patterns that don’t serve you, […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

10-13-22 Epic battle with a cricket, a co-worker said before the meeting started.  Couldn’t help but laugh, and […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Wish I would have gone for a run.  13:14, sleepy after lunch goddamnit, will need more coffee.

Chewing gum and messaging the Nurse then I get an idea.  A month ago, this writer was entirely […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Me, certainly more free over keys, fearless and newly formed in new narrative. The Energy around me is […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

10:21 Need more coffee. Edited last post a bit.  No more.  If I write it, it goes on […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

10-12-23 08:53… office.  Thought I’d be later, and here after others but no.  Just me and one other […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

2017… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

10-11-13

06:53 Getting in shower soon.  Nurse left about 20 minutes ago.  Was tempted to take a power nap […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

The story talking to me, narrating to myself as I type, to these loft beats, not correcting errors.  […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

10:49, Nurse just left.  Me giving self an hour to write, to self, but missing her.  Already. 

Will see her tonight but feel off, odd, oblong emotionally, in congruent.  New ideas though distracting me… no […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Newness Flight

22:18 Nurse called into work.  One case, it seems.  First time this has happened and first time I’m working at her desk, at the Villa by myself.  Figgy the kitty distracting me, play… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Time – Passing me, reminding me. There is no free… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Streets and Their Songs

Lights and crosswalks, passing moms with strollers Dogs, leashes, sun for some reason stronger October Not wanting to work but just walk Wherever, no goal The pattern and repeat is old Tenure blown… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

13:27 Quick nap, lunch, shower, several emails and calls, and again calm.  Picking up Jack and Emma around 16:00.  Plenty of time to continue on this paperless mission.  Threw more p… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Me this morning…

Caffeine wearing off, need a haircut. And shave. 🤣🤘‼️ | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Happiness definition, project… Stopping myself.  Thinking of people in my life, and how all the characters now are happiness generators.  Family, the kids obviously, the Nurse… getting ri… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

10-6-23

….. 08:52.  Finally home and getting to work.  More espresso, fighting the urge to go to Peet’s and get a latte which now is starting to bug me seeing how much I spend there or Star… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago