comedy and crash

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tuesday 6th:

a long afternoon, mr smear not napping while i tried to get more of the particularly tricky variable renaming done, eventually taking mr smear for a quick visit to the park. after he got over his initial upset that i wasn't going to carry him the whole way, he suddenly stopped and pointed backwards: "i want to go home and get the stroller"
brilliant!
he was upset when i put him down again after carrying him across the road, and while he cried a smelly drunken homeless guy put his fingers in his face. i told him twice that he wasn't helping before a homeless woman told him to leave off. on our way back she called out to me that it's important not to raise children in fear, and if the light hadn't turned green just then i would have told her to tell her friend that strangers sticking their fingers in an unhappy child's face can be upsetting and frightening

brushing his teeth and putting him straight to bed, dropping gd off at her class, buying a birthday card to go with her sewing machine and hiding them in one of her cupboards

working long hours but breaking to finish bladerunner 2049 - what a beautiful sequel to one of my favourite films! it's very slow-paced for the first half but it picks up around halfway, at some point it seems a little too much but it cleverly ties everything together in a satisfying way

wednesday 7th:

completing a big chunk of work and fiddling with cryptocurrencies then jumping into bed around 1.30am

up early for "owie-yad" (sore hand, which would be less sore if he'd stop peeling off the damned plasters), cereal success and mr smear enjoying some tool covers with his old man

mr smear none too clear on gd's birthday present being intended for her, dropping him off at school and realizing he hasn't pooped in two days because he's holding it in - apparently that's relatively normal for potty training but it's slowing his appetite, making his movement visibly uncomfortable and producing disastrously smelly farts.

heading to my mom's coffee shop for a few productive hours, receiving a call a little before school's end to inform me that mr smear had been scratched in a tussle, picking up mr smear and then hitting forty minutes of heavy traffic, picking gd up and putting mr smear to bed only to have him wake up a few minutes later... heading downstairs to find moving boxes and running into my mom, a lot of strategizing and then running around looking for the manager who'd promised me boxes and then disposed of them

working quite a lot, the nanny taking mr smear out and then bringing him back and then taking him to the aquarium with our friend's older kid, picking him up a while later, walking past the comedy club and realizing that that was a pretty nifty thing to do for gd's birthday

giving everyone a ride home during which mr smear proudly sang along to his hebrew nursery rhymes :)

dinner time and still no poop, mom coming over just as shadowslight arrived at the comedy club and intending to brush mr smear's teeth and go but all hell broke loose in the form of a neverending tantrum (which ended, of course, with brushed teeth and the tears stopped a minute after we finally left)

a thoroughly enjoyable evening, the host carl weber was great, the supporting act (francois van as) was fun, the first open mic was amusing, the second absolutely bombed (everyone went wild when we were told that if we didn't make some noise he'd come back), and conrad koch - the headline act - was absolutely phenomenal; honestly, the best ventriloquist act i think i've seen, he took it from funny to masterly to just plain weird to utterly surreal (the latter involving audience participation that was literally stunning)

an awkward moment wherein the events of the past few days (and the looming ones ahead) just overwhelmed me and i found myself purging to shadowslight after an otherwise excellent evening

coming home around 11pm to find mr smear fast asleep still not having pooped,

thursday 8th:

working and cryptocurrencying until almost 2am