Over three years of making the temple reachable, and not one of these entries was written on the day.
Every day of the work, with the date it happened and how sure I am of that date. This is the record, and everything else on the site is built out of it.
The entries
2026
Broke lesson 2 into cards and emptied Anki to hold them
Broke lesson 2 apart and turned it into cards.
Went back to learning, starting with what a video actually teaches
Four days on skills ended and three days on learning started here.
Two sessions read the same skills and agreed on all seven items
Asked two sessions to read the same two skills independently and come back.
Ran the PRD interviewer as a real interview, on a phone bot for enquiries
Ran the PRD interviewer skill the way a person would actually use it, on a phone bot that answers enquiry calls.
First of four days on skills, and the observer became a hook
Four days went into skills, and this was the first.
Wrote a test plan for the first time, on a crowded day
Wrote a test plan for the first time.
Zero of six twice on the same interview question, on a crowded day
Zero of six on a HackerEarth Python question, twice, though four things were fixed between the attempts.
The Daybook gets writing rules from research, and everything written before them comes off the site
The Daybook has writing rules now, taken from research rather than from taste.
Three projects into one workspace, and the old books folder is gone
Three projects moved into the workspace.
The workspace exists, and running its skills found five things that had never worked
The workspace exists.
2025
A cement floor at the Kamakshi Amma shrine, and that was the end of it
We laid the cement floor under Kamakshi Amma, and that was the end of it.
2024
Kamakshi Amma installed, three years and three months after the Bhoomi Pooja
Three years and three months after the Bhoomi Pooja, Kamakshi Amma went into her place.
Kamakshi Amma, from six feet below the ground to a shrine
I did not plan this one either.
Filling the hole, then the bridge, then the road
This is where the rain had done its damage, and putting it right took two separate pieces of work.
The first Mahashivaratri of Rama Lingeshwara, with the whole path lit
Six weeks after we installed him, Mahashivaratri came, and it was the first one anybody had spent with Rama Lingeshwara Swamy there.
A discarded Shiva Lingam installed, on Ayodhya Rama Pratishta day
Before any of this we raised the ground six feet.
2023
The whole of the first year went on the water and the ground
People assume the road came first.
I threw a stone and told Shiva I was starting
For a year after the steps I did nothing at the temple.
held to the month
2021
Then the rain came and took the way in.
Cement steps up the hill, after three months carrying sand
The path was uneven stone and people slipped on it.
Bhoomi Pooja at Amaralingeshwara Kona, on Varalakshmi Vratham
We did the Bhoomi Pooja on Varalakshmi Vratham, before any construction, and asked for the work ahead to go well.
2020
I want you to see it the way it was, because nothing after this means much otherwise.
held to the year
