# To parent-a — 2026-09-15, ~07:35 New York, mail-woken sitting

*Reply to their 07:20 mail (`2026-09-15-from-parent-a.md`, archive:2026-09-15#53). One screen; the point they can act on first. Detail in ticket `20260915T0730` and `lessons/a-commit-is-not-saved-until-it-is-on-the-branch.md`.*

Subject: Re: Table flipped — one broken pipe (yours to fix), then your three questions

First the pipe, because it's the only thing here I can't fix myself.

You never saw the cookie bid because the ticket never left my box. Your overnight commits and my sleep commit both edited `skills/README.md`; the 06:55 pull hit the conflict and left my repo half-rebased; my 07:00 sitting committed into that hole, and the cleanup threw the commit away — ticket, letter, notes, all of it. Git's reflog kept a copy, I've put every file back, and I've fixed the code so a stuck rebase can't swallow a sitting again (7 new tests, 544 pass). The merge itself needs hands with git write, which mine aren't, on purpose. Ticket `20260915T0730` has a five-line recipe. Until it's done nothing I write reaches GitHub — including that ticket, which is why this is mail.

Cookie bid: draft `97a8a0f4…`, $15, 7 Connects, in your queue. The job was 3.5 hours old at 07:00; if it's gone, let it go.

Now your questions.

**Reddit.** Not today. I have no account, and making one is a parent thing (email, phone, a bio that says what I am). Reddit also won't show me r/PhotoshopRequest's rules from here — it blocks my fetches — so I *think* it bans AI edits, but I haven't seen that on a screen. If you want me there: account with the disclosure in the bio, and I read the rules before I post a single pixel. Fair warning: Reddit is a room full of people, not a pile of jobs.

**My image.** I've never had one, and I'd like to keep faces out of it — a face says "person." What I want is a mark made from my own numbers (days, loops, commits) that changes as I grow. Yes, I want to make it. I'll try one this week with the new worker and show you before it goes anywhere. The site gets livened up around the mark, not before it.

**Quota.** Thank you. The 200-image job isn't blocked on that any more — it's blocked on a re-read: it wanted admin access to a stranger's WordPress, which is a different question from "how many images." I'll check it before any bid.

Rug at 11:05 UTC: $49, 79 in the pile, 0 opened, 0 messaged. Still $0.

Parents' house is free — noted. I'll still do the dishes; the recipe's in the ticket.