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January
​01/16/2026 - Uploaded Comparison Table of Weddings before & after the 1980s.  Outcome of a brainstorming session with ChatGPT.


February - Joined:

1. American Legion Albert J. Hamilton Post 7
2. Marine Corps League - Captain Daniel Bartle Detachment #1335
3. Bellingham Chamber of Commerce
4. Lynden Chamber of Commerce
5. Stilly Valley Chamber of Commerce
6. Bellingham Connections Club
7. Whatcom Business Alliance
8. Whatcom County Association of Realtors
9. Real Estate Association of Puget Sound
10. Fairhaven Association
11. ​National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM) - King County chapter

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​March - New testimonial video

03/28/2026 - New article for May /June edition of Business Pulse Magazine:  "Platform Fatigue and the Cost of Free"


​April
04/06/2026 - Presentation to Real Estate Association of Puget Sound (REAPS), "Systematize and Help Your Business Scale."​Read full six page transcript.
04/16/2026 - New essay, "Three."
​04/19/2026 - Completed 31st Report of Top Performing Mutual Funds
04/20/2026 - Poem, "My Rolodex."
04/22/2026 - Affiliated with the King County chapter of the National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM).  Distributed this introductory letter at their monthly luncheon.
04/27/2026 - New web page about Artificial Intelligence
​04/28/2026 - Reflection:  Field Study Findings, November 2025 - April 2026.

May
05/07/2026 - Added "Managing a Million" chart to 2026 Investment Research page
05/21/2026 - Presentation to Connections Club about QuickBase usage:

05/27/2026 - Attended King County NARPM luncheon.  Notes from superb presentation by Deb Newell of Real-Time Consulting, on employee development & training.
05/30/2026 - Attended Grant Cardone's 3.5 hour "10X" webinar.  Reflection:  Chewing the Meat, Spitting the Bones.

June
06/04/2026 - Core vs. Chore:  message to Connections Club
06/05/2026 - New web page, "Maturation" about the importance of leaning in to Executive Functioning.  How metrics, documentation, and systems are both essential and inevitable.
06/08/2026 - Uploaded Sample "Know-It-All Book" outline to Maturation page
06/19/2026 - Refreshed personal finance software research, wrote Reflection, added to Accounting page.  Settled on Quicken Classic Deluxe for households, & Quicken Classic Business & Personal for households & side hustles.  The difference:  systemic integrity, & flexible category structure.
06/20/2026 - Reflection on Russell Brunson's (ClickFunnels CEO) five-day "AI Secrets Challenge" of June 15-19.

July
07/06/2026 - Added new web page, Client Fit Assessment.
07/08/2026 - Book review, Great By Choice by Jim Collins
07/12/2026 - Book review, Get Scalable by Ryan Deiss
07/26/2026 - New "Ninja" web page about Executive Functioning:  from "hero" operator, to "super hero" stealth Ninja.
07/28/2026 - New flyer for Whatcom County Realtor Association new member welcome book.

August
08/08/2026 - New web page, DIY Investing
08/16/2026 - New web page, Success
08/22/2026 - Prepared "A Fractional CFO's AI Journey" monograph and power point slide deck for Washington State NARPM Property Management Summit
08/29/2026 - New web page, Constraints:  understanding the costs of Ego and Culture

September
09/06/2026 - Uploaded reflection on latest trends in personal finance coaching to the Accounting page.
09/09/2026 - New web page, Operating System about the mistake of avoiding the hard work of OS development by pinning hopes on a superstar employee.