July 2026

Resumed a side project, a first client through it, and a lot of family time.

Focused on hotelanvelope.ro. Resumed work on this project on July 1st and it ate most of my side hours: a redesign, an admin page, gathering data for every city, and an autonomous bot to go with it. Then the unglamorous part: messaging businesses one by one, setting up partners and getting few responses. However, on the 28th, the first client went through it end to end. One client. Small, but it counts.

The other projects didn't stop either. Another customer on the wall-art project. On the property-management side, the integration work continued, plus a lot of time on real-estate photos, comparing them with everyone else's and feeling like I'm not getting anywhere. Also started a small book-highlights project, purely for fun. And cut some monthly costs: closed a couple of subscriptions I wasn't really using for the side projects.

Something I wrote down mid-month and want to keep: speed matters, in planning and in execution.

Not every day was a good one. A few days I woke up tired, with no drive, getting through the job and not much else. One day I wrote: "did a lot of things, but I cannot point to a thing I did today that I'm really proud of." Same evening I did a gym session at home and felt much better. NOTE TO SELF: don't skip the gym. Also at work, an 8+ hour incident on a Saturday.

Family. Mother-in-law stayed with us for a good part of the month (me on the couch, the heat not helping my sleep). Later we visited my parents and spent days helping around their house: renovations, new furniture planning, and cleaning mushrooms.

A weekend at Meander with Mary. A whole day by the pool. Just amazing location.

Friends: breakfast at Eggcetera with Bogdi and Bianca, helped Robert move into their amazing new house, an evening at Sanyi and Beatrice's, and a meetup with Cristi. And the best news of the month: Teo and Robert brought Thomas into this world.

Health: 11 gym sessions (one at home), a squat PR of 7 x 70kg, two runs, one of them 3k in the rain, sauna and cold showers. Orthodontist check: all good, see you next year.

By the Numbers

1 first client for hotelanvelope.ro
1 more customer for the wall-art project
11 gym sessions
2 runs (~9km total)
1 squat PR (7 x 70kg)
4 meetups with friends
1 weekend at Meander
6 hours of cleaning mushrooms

You were hot, July 2026.