AI agent first day results and the microfilm project

 I ran out of credits/tokens training it by 2pm.  Had to upgrade the plan from the 30 dollar to 100 dollar month plan.  

It struggled to do any scheduled social media posts, it kept hitting the captchas and bot checks.  

It did handle a blog post to the company site okay bit it did 2 drafts to get it where I needed it.  

After business hours it checked the business page once, then fell asleep, and didnt do anything  until 815am when I woke it up.  

It failed to message me on Viber for any problems.  

It is now catching up on the social media as the office girl showed up late, so it is doing her job.  I am getting little notificaiton windows when tasks are getting done.  

Likely I will need the full 300 dollar agent to get the most use out of it.  Either that or spend a couple thousand dollars and build a dedicated PC to run a bot locally which would be the best case money wise.

The project microfilm is also coming along but much slower than I would like.  The enzyme I bought from China land removes the silver gelatin in about 10 min.  However we ran into a issue when running the powder thru the vacuum furnace.  It turned into a ball and was gold colored.  It was either gold or iodine.  Iodine means silver iodide salts.  Crushing it up if it dissolved in water, it was silver iodide, if it was gold, it does not dissolve in water.  Unfortunately it dissolved in water.  

We had electroplating electrodes arrice so the chemist will electroplate it out of solution.  

I will be off doing a event in Subic all weekend, and seeing the chemist.  

Hired my first AI Agent

I hired my first Grok AI agent today.

The experience is nothing short of wow.

In two hours it reviewed my entire business social media so it could understand what I do. It then found every inquiry that needed follow-up and handled those in my company voice.

It created 60 days of social media content from the main org accounts, AND translated it into the different languages we use here.

It connected to my Viber account and is coordinating sales with the separate company that handles our government work. It can also communicate with the entire team on Viber.

It is everything the YouTube videos said.

Product page: https://x.ai/bot

Launch announcement (11 August 2026): https://x.ai/news/introducing-grok-bot

Access expansion (26 August 2026): https://x.ai/news/grok-bot-more-plans

Setup docs: https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/get-started

iOS: https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/mobile

Everyone losing their mind.

My wife arranged for her friends to pose as prospective buyers in order to inspect the new shop. Shortly thereafter, the group arrived, with my wife accompanying them.

The sexytary observed them on the CCTV footage. She noted that my wife was criticizing the shop as dirty and making disparaging remarks about me in Tagalog.

This incident provoked the sexytary’s anger, which she directed toward me.

Consequently, I am now facing criticism both at home and in the office.

The sexytary plays a significant role in the project and functions, in effect, as a co-owner at this stage. When she experiences one of her frequent emotional outbursts, operations become considerably more difficult.

Fortunately, the recent hires enable me to reassign tasks that the sexytary would otherwise perform or leave incomplete during her episodes of instability.

Cash reserves remain low. Sales have begun to recover following the slowdown caused by the rains. Nevertheless, I dislike seeing only residual metal at the bottom of the safe where a substantial cash balance ought to be.

This weekend I will make another trip to Subic for meet-and-greets and related networking. Such weekends typically cost between USD 300 and 400, offer approximately a 50 percent chance of generating a sale, and strengthen professional connections, friendships, and networks.

The previous Subic trip cost roughly USD 450 and resulted in approximately USD 23,000 in business.

Today’s weather alternated between clear blue skies and rain squalls accompanied by torrential winds and rain.

As a result, the sailing race scheduled for this weekend has been cancelled. However, the free classroom portion of the Subic learn-to-sail course remains available. It is ordinarily a class priced at more than USD 100, so I intend to take advantage of it.

Crazy idea

 I applied for a grant to open this.  

Buy for one sell for two.  

Buy, sort, bale/shred, ship.  

For extra spice, a shred and wash line later on, to collect a extra step of money in the supply chain.  

No one here is doing like this.  No one has a nice place to sell to.  Which means less neighbor issues.  Visibillity and ads mean that more is bought.  Which means more is sold.  I have buyers who will take everything I can get and now with the war, the prices for scrap are thru the moon.

Damn near every shop I have seen has a bunch of low effort workers in filthy clothes that look like crack heads.  The buyers of the end product on the other hand are huge modern plants.  

The buyers of the scrap have told the junk shops repeatedly to get their shit together, but the majority of the shops are not taken as a serious enterprise.  Then people wonder why they are poor.

Right product, right price, wrong location

 The other day I saw someone selling shredded seatbelt fiber on FB by the ton.  290usd per metric ton (2200 pounds) 

Perfect stuff for concrete. 

But damn near impossible to sell locally because people not too smart.

The plastic plywood I mentioned?  Despite the price being a bit lower than marine ply, can barely sell 30 sheets a month.   it should not be hard.  But it is.