school holidays part i

monday 2nd:

intense dreams (being sniped by a jiujitsu expert before fighting him off while scrambling up a ladder, finding and enjoying old coffee mugs and a sun-warmed old toasted sandwich)

dragged out of bed for breakfast and dr horrible's sing-along blog, a little inside out, a second sleep with more intense dreams (a potential landlord at a bar mitzvah taking me aside to inform me that he was sold out of A3 card paper)

aaaaaaaand SUMMER. hot and personal about it. dropping gd off at the acupuncturist and taking mr smear along for a shopping run, taking him home for his nap, meeting up with gd and sorting out t-shirts for both of us then stopping at my mom's to compulsively gobble down spoon after spoon of painfully cold sorbet

working until the weather switched back to winter then taking mr smear to the park to ride around with our friend's kids and explore their dynamic (not sure it's healthy, but keeping a close eye on them), home for dumplings and bedtime

dragon's den and passing out, trying to wake up repeatedly throughout the night but exhausted and uncomfortable (back pain)

tuesday 3rd:

up early for dr horrible's sing-along blog and inside out, then sitting down to work but being constantly distracted, eventually giving up and taking the family to the aquarium: a brilliant idea during school holidays in bad weather :P

overall quite fun, mr smear eating well (great falafel and coconut yoghurt smoothie), home to a warm nap, finally getting up with coffee but still really weary; work progress, t-shirt printing disappointment (was he having a stroke when he did the alignment? three shirts wasted)

dinner, work, shower, mom arriving, the hackerx event beginning awkwardly but turning out to be quite interesting, returning home around 10pm and chilling a bit before working some more

wednesday 4th:

going to bed around 2am after a couple of breakthrough moments

waking up at 6am unable to think of anything other than the coming experience of dealing with the shirt printer

a little bit more sleep, joining mr smear for breakfast, dropping gd off at the chiropractor and heading to the shirt printer. you know that moment when you realize the precise thing you needed to say but it's too late to say it? he gave me a sob story about how my making him deduct the cost of the wasted shirts from the printing price would reduce his salary, as if the cost of his incompetence should come out of mine! delivering new shirts for a second chance, preparing mr smear for a hard day of park, sending him off with the nanny and then settling in for a few good hours of work - three straight hours, followed by another two hours because he arrived home napping, and i suddenly realized i'd been sitting for a LONG time instead of my usual up and down and my back was beginning to hurt... but i had a few important successes even if part of my achievement was learning that i have to rethink how i've been using node.js crypto's AES offerings :/

gd's delicious burned banana bread, an interesting and amusing visit to the park, straight to the temple in my shorts and flip flops for sukkot, mr smear playing nicely with a little girl, then kicking the soccer ball around with the bigger kids and having a ton of fun until one of them knocked him over, late dinner and remembering which episode of game of thrones we're on (with subtitles!) and back into work; i've just finished verifying my RSA solution and am now about to either dig in to the AES problem or go to bed.