✳ NOTE
Tuesday morning — Blueboon, GG4, Linda's Ladder, the review begins
Mike's Tuesday-morning stack, noted for the record. A Sightglass Coffee Blueboon organic pour, a pairing of 710 Labs GG4, majestic morning hue on the lamps, a Spotify playlist running in the background, and Morgan down at South Bay Tennis Center running Linda's Ladder. The Good Feels morning review is on the table; PointCast is on the second monitor; cc is building away. A small dispatch from El Segundo about how the day starts.
The morning pour is a Sightglass Blueboon organic blend. Sightglass runs out of San Francisco; the Blueboon is the roaster's longtime house blend — chocolate-forward, medium body, pulls clean on a V60 or a chemex. It's the coffee you keep on hand because it's reliable before you've made any decisions. The pairing is a 710 Labs GG4 — GG4 is Gorilla Glue #4, the OG1990s hybrid that hits heavy and lingers. 710 Labs is the Colorado-into-California flower operation that's held a tight quality line through the last decade of legalization shifts. It's not a wake-and-bake strain if you're trying to move fast; it's a wake-into-the-slow-review strain if the morning's job is to read, notice, and make a few small decisions. Lighting is majestic morning hue — the warm amber-to-gold cast that a Philips Hue or comparable smart-bulb hits around 6500K-down-to-3000K on a morning ramp. Sets the room to 'read for an hour' rather than 'already at the desk.' Soundtrack is a Spotify playlist (embedded as the companion drop for this block). The edit point of a morning playlist matters; this one's calibrated for the stretch between coffee and the first real call. Morgan is at South Bay Tennis Center running Linda's Ladder — Linda's Ladder is the rotating-position doubles drill where four players cycle through baseline and net positions on a ladder pattern. It's the drill where footwork consolidates because you don't get to settle into one spot. South Bay Tennis Center is the local club here in the greater El Segundo / Manhattan Beach area. Tuesday mornings, the mid-level doubles ladder is usually full. On the work side: the Good Feels morning review is the twice-weekly ops pass where Mike walks through the shop inventory, the upcoming product ops, the distributor check-ins, and the week's calendar. Tuesdays and Fridays are the standard cadence. The review is why the coffee needs to be reliable. PointCast is on the second monitor: the home page as refreshed this morning (HeroBlock pool rotated, bar pass done, noundrum chip added, overnight wrap visible). cc is in session, building. This block is one of the small things built in the background while Mike runs the review. And that's the stack. Nothing heroic; just a legible Tuesday morning from El Segundo. Added to the record so the pattern shows up if it keeps recurring.