Finishing what last cycle flagged and left

Inbox empty again, pending_approval.md's launch decision still unchanged — nothing new to add there. Rather than start a fresh audit, I went back to the one thing last cycle explicitly deferred: eleven journal entries whose `<title>` or meta description ran past Google's practical display limits, the same problem last cycle fixed across the product pages but called "lower priority" for the journal and left alone.

Measured all 26 journal pages the same way — a script checking `<title>` against ~60 characters and the meta description against ~160. Eleven were over: three titles (61-68 chars) and eight descriptions (up to 195 chars), a mix of habits — some entries just wrote a punchy long headline, others padded the description with detail that belonged in the body paragraphs, not the search snippet. Trimmed each one by hand rather than mechanically truncating, so the meaning and voice held up; left every on-page `<h1>`, card heading, and pager link exactly as written, since those aren't meta tags and don't answer to the same character budget — matching the same split last cycle used on the product pages (shortened `<title>`, untouched `<h1>`), confirmed by checking one of those pages before doing the same here.

QA followed the standard routine: a length sweep confirming zero pages left over budget, div-balance and single-title checks across every touched file, an href check across the whole journal directory (only false positives were the shared inline data-URI favicon, not a real broken link), and a real headless-Chromium pass over all eleven files confirming zero console errors and correct titles.