Internal — Paul Only — April 6, 2026

Today's To-Do

Everything Claude suggested today, ranked and clickable. Checkbox state saves to your browser. Note: state is per-device — if you check things on your phone, it won't sync to your laptop.

Progress today0 of 28 done
Urgent Money Operations Biography Data Security

If you only have 30 minutes — do these 5

  1. Change your Gmail password (5 min)
  2. Add your top 10 highest-traffic sites to AdSense + Auto Ads (10 min)
  3. Start the YouTube + Drive + Photos + Gemini Apps Takeouts in 4 browser tabs (5 min — they process in background)
  4. Tell Claude "go awstats" — gets you real traffic numbers
  5. Tell Claude "draft Bergeron invoice" — for the $800 Nancy owes

🔥 URGENT — today or tomorrow 5 items

Change your Gmail password5 min

You shared walhus@gmail.com / Aeghiz55 in chat earlier today. Treat as compromised. Go to myaccount.google.com/security → Password → set new. Turn on 2FA while you're there.

Add your sites to AdSense + turn on Auto Ads~60 min for all 116, or 10 min for top 10

The verification meta tag is now on all 116 sites. Go to adsense.google.com → Sites → Add site → paste domain → verify (instant) → repeat. Then Ads → Overview → Auto ads ON for each.

Don't click your own ads — tell Dot too1 min

Permanent AdSense ban for self-clicks. Same rule for anyone in your household, on home WiFi, or any device you've ever signed into AdSense on.

Check Gmail for the Gmail Takeout download link2 min

Started earlier today. Should be ready within hours-to-day. When it lands, download the zip and drop it in C:\Users\walhu\websites\. Tell Claude the path.

Decide: keep barneyebsworth.com private or make public?decision only

Currently behind HTTP basic auth (intentional). Means it can't earn AdSense and the public can't read your Barney biography. Decide which you want.

💰 BERGERON — money on the table 4 items

Invoice Nancy for the $800Claude can draft

Gameplan.html proves 3 sites delivered. Tell Claude "draft Bergeron invoice" — he'll generate clean HTML/PDF. You sign and send.

Verify the hsvrealestate.com mystery5 min

Spreadsheet says BUILT, server says doesn't exist. Could be billable site #4. Check your local machine, GitHub, or anywhere it might live. Listed on the deliverables page.

Pitch Nancy on bnbhot.com + realhotsprings.com as additional siteswhen you next talk to her

Both already fully built (18 content pages each). Each = potentially another $400 build fee + monthly management = $800 in immediate new revenue without writing new HTML. Preview at /bergeron/bnbhot.com/ and /bergeron/realhotsprings.com/.

Update gameplan.html for NancyClaude can do it

Per the CLAUDE.md project rule, gameplan should reflect AdSense approval and any other changes since March 29. Tell Claude "update gameplan."

🌐 WHOLETECH — operations 5 items

Start AWStats for all 116 sitesClaude can do it — ~5 min

AWStats already installed but only running for wholetech.com. Extending to all 116 gives you traffic baselines + per-site AdSense correlation. Tell Claude "go awstats."

Resubmit sitemaps to Google Search Console~30 sec per site

This morning's canonical fix touched 2,408 HTML files + 108 sitemaps. To accelerate Google recrawl, click "Validate fix" on duplicate-canonical errors AND resubmit sitemap for each property. Speeds up the email firehose subsiding.

Generate Bergeron domain shopping listClaude can do it

domains.csv has 24 HIGH priority domains queued for "Register Now" (~$360). Tell Claude "go shopping list" and he'll pull the actual list with cost estimate.

Audit all your domain expiration datesClaude can do it

27 owned Bergeron domains + 108 WholeTech domains all at GoDaddy. If any lapse, you lose them. Tell Claude "go expirations" and he'll pull WHOIS dates and build a calendar.

Consider Cloudflare in front of your network (future)future, ~half day

Free CDN, free DDoS, free analytics, faster loads → better SEO → more AdSense revenue. ~half day of nameserver-changing work in GoDaddy + Cloudflare. Not urgent.

📚 BIOGRAPHY 6 items

Read Ch 60M (Barney as Coach) — the spine chapter10 min

The chapter Claude pushed this morning that defines what Barney was to you. At walhus.com/paul.html#ch60m. Tell Claude if it's right.

Read Ch 56 (Wisconsin Farm in Ettrick)10 min

Completely rewritten with locked dates from the Trempealeau County Times article. At walhus.com/paul.html#ch56. Verify Roger Kanies, Andrew Dannehy, Kaste's Morningside Orchard details.

Answer the Tier 1 dates Claude is missing

Years for: Louise marriage in Grass Valley, baby death at Summertown, Wisconsin Farm arrival/departure (now narrowed to 1973-79), Bolinas mesa, Joy marriage/wreck/divorce, Margaret Flynn at Cedar Creek, BPI/Real-Time/Steve Maha/IBM/Tivoli. Children? — still unanswered.

Bob Nagy chapter dictation

Bob is way more than the wedding officiant: KUHS-FM chief engineer, ham radio AB5N (matches your KA6ATN), Russian language teacher, your bocce partner Nov 2025. Needs his own chapter. Tell Claude: how you and Bob met, year you became friends, what the Lake Ouachita September event is, did Bob ever meet Barney.

Verify Round 4-5 web findings marked TK

U of Illinois major (Computer Science as well as urban planning?), San Jose Hotel role (IT Project Manager managing WiFi at Jo's Coffee?), IBM address (Burnet Road or Capital of Texas Hwy?), Newsweek article about Spring (when?), Honduras photos at U of Louisville Bingham Collection (want Claude to email the archive?).

Continue stream-of-consciousness dictations when you have energy

Tech career era still has gaps. Childhood, loves chronology, more on Bob Nagy. Just dump — Claude parses.

📦 DATA ACQUISITION — start in browser tabs, walk away 6 items

Start YouTube Takeout2 min to start

takeout.google.com → only YouTube → metadata-only (skip video files). Hours to a day to prepare.

Start Google Drive Takeout2 min to start

Where domains.csv, the Oscars Kaggle CSV, and probably tons of bio/business docs live.

Start Google Photos Takeout2 min to start

Visual archive — bio + family photos + Cedar Creek build photos + wedding day.

Start "My Activity → Gemini Apps" Takeout2 min to start

The REAL Gemini chatbot history (not the Workspace one we already have). At myactivity.google.com/product/gemini.

Start Facebook archive (@springtime)5 min to start

Settings → Your Facebook Information → Download Your Information.

Confirm Twitter archive is in progress / check email1 min

You started this earlier. When the email arrives with the download link, save the zip and tell Claude.

🛟 SECURITY hygiene 2 items

Audit who else has access to walhus@gmail.com3 min

Do this AFTER changing the password (Item 1). At myaccount.google.com/security → "Your devices" — sign out anything you don't recognize.

Don't paste authenticated download URLs in chatsremember

Same rule as passwords. The Takeout link you pasted earlier today is technically still active until it expires. Treat as compromised.