Today truly felt like a self-driving adventure.

We explored the fading charm of Chadao, then headed to Longqing Gorge, where a thrilling water jetpack show wowed us. A bumpy van transfer and a scenic boat ride added to the day’s texture.

In the afternoon, we drove through the winding, tree-lined roads of the Baili Landscape Gallery, stopping to take in the stunning views.

As evening approached, we spontaneously booked a cozy, beautifully decorated guesthouse. After a smooth and surprisingly fast drive, we arrived by 8 p.m., ending the day with a shared “wow” of delight.

We kicked off our first self-driving trip to Yanqing, leaving at 9 a.m. after some clumsy adjustments to the rental car. Though I was nervous at first, I soon found my rhythm.

After a meal and some light shopping, we braved the rain to enjoy a music festival from afternoon to night. Highlights included NeongGarden, Constant & Change, 831, and the unforgettable energy of Second-Hand Rose, which had us all up dancing.

We ended the day at a charming guesthouse in an ancient town. No zongzi yet, but it was a special start to our Dragon Boat Festival.

On the last workday before the Dragon Boat Festival, I had a packed schedule. After a productive Sprint meeting, I picked up Hamer, who had a half-day of school, and we enjoyed lamb offal soup with a friend.

Afternoon AI meetings were smooth but lacked spark. I worked late debugging the KML save module, finally resolving most logic by 8 p.m.

Hamer, clearly worn out from the day, fell asleep early.

I spent the morning rushing to finish the MCP Plugins demo for tomorrow’s Sprint but only resolved a KML-saving issue. Writing tests took longer due to disorganized past test cases—a reminder of lingering tech debt.

After school, Hamer was relieved she no longer had to join a stressful science fair event.

Our evening at the river felt tense—Hamer accidentally hit someone while jumping rope, and I unfairly scolded her despite her apology. Lately, Xiaoyan’s constant complaints have also added to my stress.

Thanks to a midday nap, I felt refreshed and productive—something I’ll try to keep up.

The morning 2.4 retrospective was open and thoughtful, with even quiet team members speaking up impressively.

Although my last attempt at vector search didn’t fully succeed, I decided to pause it and focus elsewhere. I successfully completed the Wikipedia tool migration in the afternoon.

Hamer was calm while accompanying me at work. Afterward, we met Xiaoyan by the river for a lovely evening. Hamer read under a streetlamp, and Xiaoyan biked home, proudly finishing a one-hour ride.

Today was mentally draining—I spent the entire day trying to build a vector database for a plugin, but hit multiple issues, including a hidden dependency conflict.

Frustrated and exhausted, I left early to pick up Hamer and play badminton. She had a great time with colleagues, which helped lift my mood.

In the evening, we celebrated my birthday with a small cake and home-cooked dinner.

After dropping Hamer off, I started work early to finish an image-to-text module using resized images and per-request kernel instances. Despite some hurdles, I stayed patient and worked through them.

In the afternoon, I continued exploring vector store integration for the user manual—progress was slow but steady.

I picked Hamer up from school, where she proudly showed me a cute paper-clay zongzi she made. She came to my office but quickly got bored while I was in a meeting, later saying she doesn’t want to go again.

After a simple dinner, I felt deeply tired, both mentally and physically.

Today I finished the hardest full marathon of my life—slow, grueling, but completed in 5h33m.

I ran strong early on, but stomach issues hit around 13 km, forcing me to stop twice. Later, thigh and calf pain made running difficult, and I switched to a walk-run approach. It was my first time racing with energy gels, which may have upset my stomach. After crossing the finish line, I nearly fainted from exhaustion and low blood sugar. A long nap helped.

In the afternoon, I reunited with Xiaoyan and Hamer, and we returned home—tired, but proud of this hard-won finish.

A rainy, chilly day began with me noticing Hamer had left her English book at home. I debated delivering it but chose to let her face the natural result. She later said she shared with a classmate and felt fine.

At work, I submitted a PR on type handling and explored image-to-text and RAG, though progress was slow and delays are piling up.

I woke to peaceful birdsong and made fruit for breakfast, though Hamer didn’t eat much—her appetite’s been low lately. Still, eating at home gave us some relaxed morning time together.

I spent the day focused on tool migration, deepening my understanding of chat history and function parameter handling for future plugin work. Unfortunately, I got stuck debugging and couldn’t leave work early.

At noon, I trained legs at the gym for the upcoming marathon. Feeling worn out by evening, I took Hamer shopping, and we ended the day quietly by the river, enjoying the breeze.

On 5·20, I surprised Xiaoyan with Starbucks breakfast, though her initial reaction to the price left me slightly deflated.

The morning was filled with meetings, and in the afternoon, I focused on refining a Semantic Kernel plugin to return schema-compliant data—finding the key clue in a past chat history.

Beijing was hot; I played pingpong at noon, badminton in the evening, and jumped rope with Hamer at night. She struggled with a new move and got frustrated, but with patience, she made progress and smiled.

A small morning conflict with Xiaoyan left me feeling distant, though we briefly discussed it before leaving home.

At work, I finalized the YAML-based message scheme for frontend-backend integration with ChatGPT’s help—a satisfying milestone after days of planning.

An unproductive summer event meeting was followed by urgent bug fixing and preparing materials for tomorrow, which delayed me until after 7 p.m., forcing me to skip my run.

For dinner, we enjoyed crayfish sent from Hunan. Hamer especially loved it, happily peeling and eating with oily hands, though we were all overstuffed by the end.

After a restful morning, I tested life-in-weeks and running-page for my blog setup. Before noon, Hamer and I visited a nearby park—she drew while we snacked in the shade, enjoying a quiet, peaceful moment.

In the afternoon, we watched The Lament of Qu Yuan. The performance was moving, especially in the later scenes, and both Hamer and Grandma were brought to tears.

Before the show, we briefly met Xiaoyan, who was busy guiding Australian clients. We ended the day with a warm dinner together, wrapping up a beautifully full day.

I slept in until late and felt much better physically—less soreness and more relaxed. 

At noon, Xiaoyan and Wanna came home, and we enjoyed a delicious lunch. Hamer went to dance class while I played soccer. Though we lost 2–4 against a strong team, it was an intense and enjoyable match.

Afterward, I practiced piano and made progress coordinating both hands. Xiaoyan and Wanna took Hamer to get new glasses.

This morning, Xiaoyan left early for a work trip to Shanxi. After dropping Hamer at school, I reviewed AI + GIS news and discovered a great new workflow—summarizing curated links via ChatGPT.

Our sprint meeting revealed scattered progress, prompting thoughts about improving team cohesion by merging separate meetings. Most of my day went into documentation, including our weekly summary and an MVP draft.

In the evening, I helped Hamer with homework—she was cheerful and focused. We walked, picked up snacks, and she later surprised me by drawing a girl in a foldable ballet dress, staying creatively immersed until late.

I took the afternoon off to attend Hamer’s first parent-teacher meeting of the year. Before that, we played together and enjoyed tripe soup—Hamer loved it and nearly finished her own bowl. The meeting was insightful, especially a heartfelt speech from another parent that left me inspired.

In the evening, we relaxed as a family by the river.

In the morning, I studied Semantic Kernel plugin development, applied some best practices, and optimized plugin logic. DeepWiki helped me better understand the docs, and I began using Mermaid for clearer diagrams.

A light rain and thunder started the day, but Hamer’s cheerful breakfast from 7-Eleven lifted our mood. By noon, the sky cleared, and I went to the gym for leg training—sweaty but rewarding. I listened to a podcast about parents using exaggerated praise to boost kids’ emotional value, which I might try with Hamer.

In the evening, our family relaxed by the river with snacks and a makeshift shoebox table. Hamer and I ran and played while Xiaoyan rested.

At work, I designed the AI Chat backend and integrated the build process into Jenkins to improve team efficiency.

I spent the day diving into CefSharp’s JavaScript Binding and successfully ran a sample using the new registration method. Noticing a mistake in the official docs, I updated the Wiki and submitted a PR to fix it—my second accepted contribution to the project, marking a small step into open source.

After badminton in the evening, I rode my e-bike to meet my classmate. A heavy storm hit just as I arrived at the wrong hotel—lucky timing. We chatted over dinner, waited out the hailstorm, and I rode home once the rain stopped around 9:50 p.m.

After work, I took Xiaoyan and Hamer to sit by the river, a spontaneous idea born during yesterday’s run. We brought fruit and chairs, chatted in the breeze, and later enjoyed hot ramen together—it was a short outing, but deeply fulfilling.

In the morning, I woke up sore from recent workouts and considered focusing on leg strength for marathon prep.

At work, after a meeting, I studied JavaScript Binding in CefSharp.

It was a full and joyful day. In the morning, our family visited museums separately—Xiaoyan took Hamer to the Science Museum, while I explored a traditional Chinese medicine exhibit with Grandma.

In the afternoon, I visited the Archaeology Museum and was impressed by the immersive cave-like design and bilingual display quality.

In the evening, I unexpectedly ran 10 km, plus a 1 km sprint, while listening to The Art of Loving by the riverside.
Before bed, Xiaoyan and I had a rare, meaningful conversation about future plans—something we hadn’t done peacefully in a long time.

I woke up early and suddenly decided to rearrange the bedroom layout to reuse our old wardrobe. Spent the morning reorganizing, including tidying up the small room. Hamer loved the new setup and rushed to try out her bed.

After lunch, everyone went their separate ways—Xiaoyan to a dental appointment, Hamer to dance class with Grandma, and I went to play soccer. The game lacked energy, but I chatted a bit with teammates on the subway ride home.

Later, I met Xiaoyan and Hamer in Sanlitun, hung out with Hamer for a while, and saw a confident little girl climbing impressively, which left a strong impression.

It was a rainy day in Beijing. I dropped Hamer off at school with just one raincoat—she ran in through the rain, which made me feel a bit guilty. Xiaoyan and I commuted together, and during breakfast, we had a brief disagreement about the messy house.

At lunch, I squeezed in a light gym session.

Work was smooth: I finalized the AI newsletter and joined a productive meeting where a collegue shared a flexible new framework for the AI Assistant. I spent the evening debugging an MCP tool issue, finally resolving it by 8 p.m. before heading home exhausted.

Today felt like an emotional roller coaster—starting with anxiety in the early morning, turning into worry later in the morning, followed by a glimmer of progress around noon, sinking into helplessness in the afternoon, and finally ending with relief in the evening. All of this was triggered by a technical presentation I wasn’t prepared for. … I was about to head out but figured I might as well sit in and listen to the CoP meeting to get a feel for its format and vibe. After some quick greetings, the sharing session began. The presenter’s slides were polished and their delivery was smooth. It made me a bit nervous about my own future presentation—my content is still incomplete, some parts borrow other people’s ideas, and my slide design is fairly plain.

Last night, Xiaoyan came home very late because of a flight delay and woke me with the doorbell.

This morning, Hamer anxiously asked whether she needed to rewrite her math assignment, only to learn that she just needed to make corrections—yet she still has to redo it fully this evening.

During my commute, I admired colorful blooms and used ChatGPT for flower identification. It provided a more accurate and detailed result than the now-retired Flower Recognition app.

I spent the day preparing my MCP presentation, generating new flowcharts from the spec and code, and planning to polish and map out the demos and Q&A.

After work, I arrived home early and finalized Hamer’s statistics report, though she insisted that Mom help instead because she finds me “nitpicky.”