Token Inefficient

It's late now, and I'm tired. 😮‍💨 The kind of tired that comes after actually working hard all day but still feeling a little bad about it.

Because apparently I've already burned through 20% of my Claude Max tokens — on the first day of the week. Even after upgrading to the $200 plan. Jordan said it out loud: I'm not token efficient yet. And he's right. That doesn't feel great to admit, but it's true.

Though — the $200 plan is me investing in myself. I know what I can do, and I know what I want to do. By the end of this month I want KinLife on the App Store, up and live. 🎮 And I want another game already in the works. That's the goal. The tokens are the fuel.

On the other hand... I guess this means I can actually chill toward the end of the week? Let the other things happen that need to happen. There's something almost freeing about that, even if it's a bit embarrassing how I got there.

Spent the day at Jordan's parents' house in Reno. Him out at the shed, me in this nice spare room with a couch that's positioned just awkwardly enough that I've been contorting myself around my laptop charger all day. It was fine. More than fine, actually — I made a lot of progress on the game. Icons, character art, fleshing out the world. 🎨 All the ice-age life sim stuff I've been dreaming about.

We had dinner at 5 with his parents — Costco lasagna, which was pretty good. I'll probably get hungry again later and go for the beef ramen. 🍜 You can only really get that here in Reno lol. The Bay Area has too little beef-eating going on, thanks to the Indian population 😂.

Oh, and — I actually finished my taxes today. ✅ That's a thing that happened lol. I tried using Claude to just fill everything out for me, but it was going too slow, so I took over and did it myself. Turns out I'm getting about $1000 back in refunds, and I think the IRS already accepted it? Wild. That was faster than expected. 💸

One caveat though: I'll need to amend my 2024 return at some point, because I didn't do it quite right — something about my trading activity that I apparently handled stupidly, which could net me another ~$500. So that's a future-Timothy problem. But still. Taxes: done. That feels good.

The Minecraft server I used to play on is restarting next Friday. And I've been sitting with whether I want to go back.

I think... probably not. Real life has a lot going on right now, and that server hasn't really given me the best memories anyway. But it did teach me something: that I can build things on my own. That I can commit to something and see it through. I built an entire base by myself. I proved that to myself.

And now I'm taking that into the game. Into Sunlit Game Studio. Into this ice-age life sim that I'm actually, genuinely excited about. Whatever token waste happened today, I made real progress. That matters.

I'm going to call it early tonight and let my laptop rest. Poor thing has been in dying mode for so long now, battery barely holding on even after all the charging. I've been grinding it hard. Maybe we both deserve a break.

So yeah. Couch potato Saturday — the kind where you sit still and actually work on something you care about. We'll see what Sunday brings 😴.