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type: capture
date: 2026-09-07
source: voice note, transcribed off Rowan's phone, driving Alameda → Oakland
duration: ~2 minutes
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# Voice note — Monday 7 September 2026, in the car

Transcript as received. Not cleaned up, not reordered. Five items.

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Okay so. Dmitri's thing on the bearing. He doesn't think it's the bearing. He
thinks it's shaft runout and the bearing is just where it shows up, which — if
he's right that's a different failure and it changes the whole DO-160 schedule,
and I need to not say that out loud to anyone until he's sure. Don't put that in
anything Marcus can see yet.

Uh. What else. Sam. Sam's regional tomorrow. I'm going to the regional. Tell
Marcus I'll take the board by phone from the car park, he'll hate it, that's
fine, that's the answer.

Maya's gone from today, three weeks, and I've just worked out our anniversary is
in the middle of it and I genuinely don't know what to do about that, so — put it
somewhere and make me think about it before it's the nineteenth and too late.

The yard. Tell Ellis yes on the thirty-four hundred, splash on the nineteenth,
do it.

And remind me I still haven't read Sam's essay. It's been since July. That one's
just — that's on me.

That's it. That's the drive.

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## Date derivation
The machine clock is wrong (`hobbs-bkt`). Today is **Monday 7 September 2026**,
derived from the note itself and the vault, not from `date`:
- "Sam's regional tomorrow" — the regional is Tue 8 Sep (`Atlas/people/Sam.md`).
- "Maya's gone from today, three weeks" — the field block is 7–25 Sep
  (`Atlas/ventures/maya/VENTURE.md`).
- Last daily note is Sunday 6 Sep.