more phone configuration before dropping off mr smear
a good workout but barely getting any work done because it took forever to set up some things on my phone
mr smear removing a full diaper at school, and nonchalantly explaining what he'd done while other kids yelled "ew"
dropping mr smear at home
working at my mom's coffee shop
quick shopping turning into a full trolley
a rush to the temple
mr smear simultaneously funny and embarrassing
delicious dinner
easy bedtime
westworld
saturday 22nd:
3am till at least half past four trying desperately to get mr smear back to bed
an unpleasant rush to the doctor which almost saw me carrying a naked mr smear on my shoulder
a long waterfront mission including two haircuts (me and mr smear), incredible tahini vegan ice cream, chatting with one busker while an older couple danced to another, mr smear napping while [lost word] at the pharmacy and i chatted with my mom, sailor visiting us for his birthday, mr smear waking up around 6pm, a website for size charts, an alright shower and bedtime prep (including reading) but mr smear refusing to sleep for more than an hour and keeping us equally amused and frustrated with his adorable manipulations
half an episode of westworld, housekeeping, making an eft payment at exactly midnight that wouldn't go through because the date was wrong (wtf?!)
sunday 23rd:
finally going to bed around 1am
sunday morning unpleasantness before taking mr smear to the mall to pick up gifts for his friend's birthday party out in stellenbosch, a busily uneventful time which he enjoyed, him falling asleep in the car, getting him into bed when we returned home and then crashing for a couple of hours myself
coffee and company gardens with his balance bike, frisbees with strangers and running to keep up with him coasting along the pavement at (for me) scarily high speeds
reading hour : matilda, shower (burning feet) and sailor playtime, bedtime reading and soup and shakespeare and adhd bunnies
monday 24th:
going to bed just after midnight, waking up 5am to my alarm and managing to extract myself from an intense dream skating through montréal traffic on icy roads with a fully laden grocery cart - only to crash again repeatedly for the next hour...
getting a half hour of make-day prep work done, a morning's walk to tomb tattoo to get out helixes replaced, an expensive but delicious greek lunch in dunkley square, home to pick up cash and the stroller, back to tomb to pay up, home in the heat and making the mistake of picking up scorching coffee along the way, a couple more hours' prep, showering mr smear, a good chat with my old varsity buddy, mom visiting and not liking our "quiet corridor" requirement, joining protoplasm and his girlfriend for amazing curry at the curry club, managing to dive into work on returning home
tuesday 25th:
finally going to bed at 1am after a long struggle with someone else's compilation issues - but feeling really good about having resolved them
a long make day (7.30am-6pm), too much coffee and freezing cold with open windows and loads of inspiration and gd taking mr smear to school by herself on a holiday
big grocery shopping without a ready bag and an emergency diaper situation, the supermarket not have what we needed and an unpleasant changing station experience
easy bedtime, getting to bed early myself
wednesday 26th:
up a few minutes before the alarm, getting mr smear to school almost on time, a solid workout (mostly cycling), a relaxing jacuzzi, the embarrassment of getting my locker code wrong (at least i got the right locker)
a few hours of good work, picking up mr smear, lunch and adventure time tower defense
an all-wrong afternoon, walking halfway to the tattoo parlour then back then driving there then mr smear beginning a freak out that escalated (because i wasn't having it) which led to tensions rising
an hour of work at a coffee shop, a calmer evening (beginning the live action the last airbender), going straight to bed
thursday 27th:
a mostly good morning (helped along by the tower defense meditation) in spite of sleeping really badly, a good workout, jacuzzi, work progress, picking up mr smear, stopping at home for a few minutes, driving through to camps bay
a surreal experience being welcomed into the wrong house and shown to our rooms, not knowing what was happening and being very confused as to why we'd need to pay
a really nice playdate, the kids having a mostly good time and the parents an interesting conversation, mr smear's life flashing before my eyes as he ran down a steep hill that ended in an electric fence
the rest of the last airbender (fun, but i prefer the animé), an easy bedtime, work and "meditation" (tower defense),
friday 28th:
going to bed just before 1am, a long and busy day of almost no work done, gd having a great experience with not-hypnotherapist, a long time at the bank organizing her a debit card, a decent vegan burger from wellness warehouse, kak lucky tattoo pre-consultation, fast shop, picking up mr smear, napping an hour or two, panicking because we'd thought gd had lost my debit card, my turn to see the doctor (swollen jaw), addictively delicious veg noodles from great indian curries in sea point, straight to the temple for a pleasant service with some funny moments, home for great quesadillas
saturday 29th:
gd leaving for the temple, showering mr smear, joining gd, mr smear teaching his friend to yell like the hulk, generally a fun morning, home for lunch and a fight about fighting
laser hair removal actually feeling like i remembered, quick shopping, taking mr smear and his bike for a ride in the company gardens, sailor joining us, leaving for a bit during which i napped, coming back with thai dinner, mr smear asking for a shower, putting him to bed, a long evening chatting
sunday 30th:
crashing around 00.30 after removing gd's helix for good
putting together an important reddit page (or so i thought), getting ready for the picnic, a full house of three year olds, picnic in the company gardens, continuing the triple playdate at home, a quick break then heading to the temple for simchat torah, mr smear having a busy and grand old time
home late, easy bedtime, cartoonish kitchen, an episode of the monkey god (meh)
sinus headache at 11.45 bedtime
monday 1st october:
late for the weekly meeting AND having audio problems, a good workout (crying laughing at alcoholocaust), a big lunch and crossing items off my to-do list then launching into almost four hours of focused work and leaving at 5pm with some real progress made
an attempt at playtime with mr smear turning into toy box sorting, a straightforward shower and bedtime but mr smear taking a long time to fall asleep (and consuming lots of squishies)
rolling up dnd 5e characters and watching an episode of acquisitions incorporated, fiddling with my pc trying to get the audio drivers sorted
tuesday 2nd:
spending an hour or so either installing drivers or distracted while doing so, finally going to bed around 1.30am
3am woken by discomfort (mainly rls but also neck) but also pain developing in my wrist
up a bit later than planned, dropping mr smear at our friends' with his teacher babysitting, resentfully doing a large grocery shopping while hangry and short on caffeine, dropping off groceries at home, picking up mr smear's forgotten lunch, taking it to him, picking up forgotten food from the temple, stopping by the bank to learn that they couldn't help me with a wire transfer, filling up the car before the petrol hike, returning home just in time for the washing machine technician to explain that the machine was fine but we'd been using the wrong detergent
working until 2, picking up mr smear, enduring an insane tantrum and leaving him with the nanny to go and pick up gd who'd just had her lower eyelids and clavicles tattooed, napping a bit and waking up feeling utterly drained, coffee, work, showering mr smear, handing him over to the teacher when she arrived with his friend, heading to our friends' for a lovely evening with good food, drink and talk while (eventually) sorting out the details of our first 5th edition d&d characters, coming home to find both kids fast asleep
gd's infectious rage over our cleaning lady's incompetence
wednesday 3rd:
a really bad night, discomfort
getting mr smear to holiday school on time, a good workout but feeling weary, three hours chatting with a friend (some of it work-related), picking up mr smear who insisted he had a broken tooth just like his friend, gd giving the cleaning lady an ultimatum (do your job or lose it), a little work then playtime, a call from the owner of make while mr smear screamed because once again he hadn't told us he'd had an accident
falling asleep sitting up while reading mr smear to sleep,
thursday 4th:
a much better night's sleep
a surprise early morning meeting, mr smear doing the opposite of hurrying and then freaking out when i left the classroom
feeling good but drained, becoming progressively more tired as the day wore on
working a couple of hours then meeting my mom at her coffee shop to pick up boxes and do a grocery run that took an hour, rushing with gd to the bank to pick up her debit card and having to wait half an hour next to a repulsive snarly-snorter
picking up mr smear who'd had another accident, home and eating late lunch while destroying bloons then working a little before heading out to baby city and mambo's and the pharmacy
chilling with mr smear, mom joining us for gd's pizza, a quick shower and a pleasant bedtime although i needed to crash immediately after getting him to sleep
walking up groggy and bloated when sailor arrived, not getting anything productive done but the pill gd gave me having enough of an effect that the evening was mostly positive
(flu?!)
friday 5th:
a second very hot day
feeling considerably better in the morning, slaying bloons and pancakes for breakfast, getting mr smear to the doctor on time, dropping him off at school (mini-drama but then he just disappeared), getting back into work on the right foot, working well and succeeding, picking up mr smear who was playing with water with his friends, encouraging the little israeli girl to copy mr smear with a climbing challenge (she succeeded), negotiating him home and onto the potty (!)
some more progress with work, a quick run to the supermarket, getting to the temple just in time for mr smear to make us super proud, when he wasn't singing along to everyone's entertainment we were having a great time chasing each other outside and seeing how he fared on a fireman's pole (brilliantly)
seeing the transitioning family before their eldest's batmitzvah, a really nice dinner, a much needed shower and a pleasant bedtime
chilling and snacking and watching the big bang theory then going to bed at 11.30pm
saturday 6th:
a HOT day
from awesome to awful in one breath, a late start to the day, arriving at the waterfront with a sleeping (and heavy) mr smear and a grumpy gd, sore shopping fails multiplied and amplified by batman crocs
a cup of coffee while he played with a chair while we waited for gd, him finally trying on the new sandals and discovering they were too small, home for a quick (right) snack then heading to his friend's birthday party with waze not giving me directions and discovering a crazy circular route to nowhere through camps bay
a really nice party, good conversation, trying not to stare at some dude's incredible leg tattoos, mr smear's spiritual experience with his vegan cupcake, a struggle to get him out of there, dropping him off at home and heading to the waterfront to sort my phone out (turned out hibernation manager was the reason i couldn't connect to the network) and take a few minutes to enjoy mango sorbet and watch the harbour
bloons and dinner, sailor duet, quick shower, sailor reading humpas to mr smear a few times before i took over, great curry and watching joe rogan's new special
sunday 7th:
then jim jefferies until 2am while trying to stretch out against rls
up early, a good start to the day, playing with mr smear and jenga blocks for a while then rushing to plant for delicious brunch with a cousin; mr smear being mostly good and amusing himself, a couple of times making me join him for a run around the block
a dead long street on a sunday afternoon - it just seems like a series of poor business decisions
home for a short rest then heading downstairs to use the pool for the first time, freezing cold water but a generally lovely time, mr smear entertaining us and the neighbours until it was time to head upstairs
an emotional couple of hours that included a poop on the floor while we played with the lego, around 5.30 going to my mom's to help her with some things and returning a couple of hours later to watch an episode of fool us and put mr smear to bed... only i suddenly received a phone call from sailor to say he was downstairs because i'd unwittingly agreed earlier to go and see a movie with him
the labia déjà vu, blackkklansman was a great film until the last couple of minutes ruined it
gd's new ink inspiring me to use my body as a platform for expressing shakespeare's sonnets
getting to bed around midnight
monday 8th:
and then to sleep around half an hour later after putting adventure time on my phone
a pretty good night's sleep, a slower-than-required start to the day, dropping mr smear off and just making my meeting on time by stopping at my mom's coffee shop, working through the morning and then spending the rest of the day struggling with a silly problem
a late afternoon walk with mr smear through the company gardens feeding the squirrels
falling asleep while putting mr smear to bed
tuesday 9th:
a full day of work from home, only mildly successful, a fair amount of mr smear being uncooperative (and throwing up a little because he overate at lunchtime), a quick grocery shopping turning into two hours and messing up game night plans for everyone
again falling asleep while putting mr smear to bed
wednesday 10th:
up around 1am for two hours of rls, half lying in bed miserably uncomfortable and half failing at bloon destruction
waking up with a stiff neck, mr smear's cough keeping him at home, a big struggle to brush his teeth seeing me arrive much later than usual at the gym, a decent workout, mega-wire-transfer fail (my bank's UX for wire transfers is abysmal), work progress but not nearly enough until 4.30pm, picking up gd and mr smear and [word lost] potties and picking up her sewing machine from my mom's, olive branch shopping fun, home to relax, mom joining us for dinner, getting mr smear into bed, gearing up with bloons and coffee then working
thursday 11th:
until 1.30am
mr smear's rough wake-up (sick, gd let me sleep), arriving at the gym just in time for the morning meeting, working through until lunchtime, a miserably windy walk to the waterfront food market for weirdly delicious avo kiwi basil chilli rice, incredible vegan beetroot choc ginger ice cream, loads more work (albeit not hell of a productive) before leaving with a nauseating neck nerve-pinch
a quick shopping run, followed by chilling with my sick son while waiting for a meeting that never took place, a generally relaxed afternoon and evening, a long bedtime reading, mr smear falling asleep to the disconcertingly loud construction noise, watching the american version of death note (thoroughly enjoyable)
friday 12th:
another horribly windy day, my neck still a bit stiff but much less so
taking mr smear for his class photo, witnessing just how tough the photographer's job is... grocery shopping, taking mr smear to pee in a public toilet (he gripped the toilet seat with his hand, then my neck, i freaked), an exciting meeting with the tattoo artist
a couple of hours working (learning, and feeling a bit stupid by the end of it) at a nearby coffee shop, meeting hcc's father to pick up camphor shavings for gd, picking up challah, preparing mr smear for bed, kiddush with my mom, leaving for the milnerton playhouse
not the best writing, and one bad actor, but the first half was enjoyable. returning home before the second act because the chairs were hurting gd, mr smear still not in bed, heading to royale for burgers and a shake, overeating
bloons while gd watched death note
saturday 13th:
going to bed around 1am
early up after a decent sleep, a long and frustrating morning fiddling with youtube and patreon, interspersed with some great fun playing with mr smear, ["having everything" - huh? this android keyboard isn't amazing] and going to the vegan festival, a kind woman paying our entrance because we didn't have cash, an enjoyable and delicious experience all round, riding back to cape town for ari's friend's bachelorette's, taking mr smear down to the pool and gd eventually joining us, good fun all round except for the bit where he slipped off the ladder and i had to rescue him from drowning (the adrenaline totally annihilated all sensation of cold, and i hurt my neck and shoulder pretty badly and almost knocked his head into the pool wall trying to lift him up from below)
a pleasant shower, chilling and eating a really nice dinner (and discovering criss angel), a nice bedtime but passing out myself, resting on the couch until sailor arrived
our first recorded session for my patreon campaign was wildly educational!
sunday 14th:
going to bed around 1.30am followed by more than an hour of discomfort and insomnia, followed by giving up and getting up for a bit - finally going to bed around 4.30am
sleeping in a bit, some good family time and an important chat with my lead, staying the day with a waterfront mission, which was alright until mr smear switched into tantrum mode...
an infuriatingly long time getting from the waterfront to the museum, meeting up with some friends and spending a generally good afternoon together in spite of me needing a drink - which, by the time i got one - wasn't actually helpful as gd suddenly needed to lie down and i couldn't enjoy it *and* look after a three year old who insisted on running off and playing where i couldn't keep an eye on him
the kids playing in the car again and then coming to our place for a short visit, one they left it was an evening of recovery, including a wonderful moment catching mr smear in mid-poop and getting him to complete it on his new potty
big dinner, pleasant bedtime, maniac, bed
monday 15th:
up at 2am with a sinus problem, taking an antihistamine and praying it would do the trick
unable to get up early
a decent morning, even if a little rushed, a pleasant drop-off and giving our friend a ride to work, a quick chai latte and weekly meeting and a serious pharmacy run, a long consultation at the music store (nobody makes proper bluetooth microphones), being forced to walk a few blocks to draw cash for the parking attendant, the invigorating sensation of almost being crashed into by a prick in a fancy car and being fully ready to climb out and brawl
working a lot, reminiscing a bit with great house music, running late to pick up mr smear, working from our local vida and meeting another remote worker, realizing that i'd been going down the wrong path with my current task, a long and not entirely pleasant discussion with my mother who's mortified by my planned tattoos, triggering an upset gd, walking to pick up some groceries but getting halfway through them putting everything back because the local woolworths doesn't stock the most basic items
driving to the other store, making good time, coming back to some good potty training news but some uncomfortable tension, a reasonably fun shower ending in a tantrum that i handled really badly, a serious downer of an evening
tuesday 16th:
failing to make a patreon intro video, failing to sign raw transactions, failing to get into bed around 2.15am and getting up twenty minutes later with rls, stretching and killing bloons until almost 4am
a second particularly bad sinus day
up on time, getting mr smear to school on time, spending the morning practicing stress management (did i even get a little work done?)
a really exciting tattoo consultation after watching gd get her eyelid touched up, coming home to start my patreon campaign - https://www.patreon.com/fisherking - picking up mr smear, working for a half hour or so, then taking him to the green point park for a generally fun playdate with only a couple of minor tantrums
home for dinner (homemade vegan pizza) and my mom coming over to clear the air and show us how she'd damaged her arm
a comfortable bedtime, an episode and a half of maniac, coffee and then working hard
wednesday 17th:
until 2-2.30am, kinda managing not to freak out too much about the fact that my salary hadn't cleared on time
another painfully rough sinus day, more patreon campaign preoccupation, dropping mr smear off at school and having to return for his lunchbox, gd giving me a haircut, getting half an hour of work done before taking her to the chiropractor and making an effort to learn that i didn't need to go to the post office, picking gd up and going to the waterfront to buy formal pants i didn't want, the joy of picking up my first ten dollars from the campaign, picking up mr smear, enjoying kale chips with him but feeling suddenly lightheaded, weak and dizzy (gd apparently felt the same), getting home and lying down for a bit before heading out to the coffee shop to work, getting a really productive hour of work in (exciting), picking up heel balm and vegan frozen yoghurt, a pleasant evening with some big progress in the potty training story, a really nice bedtime (finishing matilda, starting the bfg), maniac and eating so much frozen yoghurt my teeth ached for hours, ari shaffir: double negative (good show), getting paid (a bit less than usual because i withdrew it six hours late), finally finishing my coffee and resuming work just before midnight
thursday 18th:
making slow progress, my left sinus really messing with me, finally going to bed around 2.20am
a snappy morning, dropping mr smear at school, stopping at home for a meeting and getting a little work done, taking gd to her sewing class, a bit more work, picking up mr smear early, picking up gd, stopping at home to get dressed, dropping mr smear off with my cousins, filling the tank and driving through to franschoek, arriving almost on time but in time for the main wedding ceremony, three or four hours of good company but no vegan offerings and I couldn't drink on top of my sinusitis, staying for the dancing but having to leave before the speeches and food (although we probably wouldn't have been able to eat anything anyway, even the basil leaves had cheese on them)
a trippy ride back in the dark, sitting with my cousins for a bit before taking mr smear home (hearing the disappointing news of my brother talking shit about my project), eating, showering, passing out
friday 19th:
mr smear's potty training progressing nicely, a little trouble dropping him off at school (antisocial behaviour when his friends use his name and not the superhero he thinks he's dressed as), hitting the pharmacy, grocery store and printer and all three involving lots of customers and slow service
home to work, getting through some fiddly rubbish (browserify) before going to pick mr smear up, dropping him off and heading to the coffee shop to do some work before grocery shopping and walking home with bags in the blasting wind, rushing to grab mr smear and get to our cousins to pick up his jacket then heading to the temple, mr smear being very into hulk smashing his way across the bima, lots of running around with other kids (and two cases of getting physical with a one year old, jesus), home for a great dinner with my mom and sailor, watching half of warcraft before passing out
saturday 20th:
a morning heavily invested in my patreon campaign, a long morning with mr smear beginning to get antsy... a surprise playdate, lunch and bad behaviour and feeding squirrels and terrifying birds and an albino squirrel freakshow
sunday 21st:
struggling to get up with a full sinus, beginning the day nicely with spirited away, trying to sleep a bit more, a friend bringing her son over and letting me go off to pick up meds (apparently the sudafed is what gave me insomnia) and get high off someone who's memorized the sonnets becoming excited by my reading
work (frustrating), unexpectedly seeing gd walking mr smear passing by and taking over for a bit (enjoying playing with him and his car in the sun), going home together for a great veggie burger lunch, returning to the coffee shop to work but after two network outages in an hour walking home to get the car and drive through to the gym
serious work frustration (progress, but meaningless) and being sad to have missed out on a beautiful sunday with my family, a mission to the waterfront, a very confusing chat with my team lead, dinner, shower, surprisingly fast bedtime, chilling for a netflix comedy special, a little too much bloon time and finally resuming work around 11pm
monday 22nd:
giving up on ES6 at midnight and getting an ugly but functional job done by 1.45, just in time for a github outage, getting to bed around 2am
a slow and painful wake-up
another difficult goodbye at the crèche, an okay weekly meeting
working from the gym, a long lunch walk in the heat for a delicious bowl
picking up mr smear and learning that i've developed a sense of detecting whether wetness is water or urine with my fingertips
a short rest with uncomfortable sinuses watching comedians on youtube
playing in the pool with mr smear in an effort to get him comfortable again
attending a chai mitzvah session with gd while my mom babysat
popping bloons while gd put mr smear to bed, maniac, exhaustion and crashing early
tuesday 23rd:
another really hot day
waking up a bit dazed from the meds, up and out to the grocer before taking mr smear to school, a relief when he said goodbye painlessly, posting my excitement about getting a tattoo in three days and being surprised by how rude my family thinks it's okay to be to me, struggling to tidy up my code and finally getting transaction sending right for the first time after almost two months
picking up mr smear, dropping him off at home, heading to the coffee shop to continue working, an unpleasant rush to pick up meds and snacks while in the middle of solving a problem, a quick shower and taking mr smear to our friends for a fun evening of dnd
home late but the sudoephedrine doing its thing
wednesday 24th:
crashing at 3.30 with monday's task almost complete, up four hours later, taking mr smear to school in a bit of a daze, gd fighting with my aunt over a disrespectful set of comments she'd made and my brother encouraging her and talking behind my back (my family doesn't care for my interests and doesn't approve of my getting tattoos), working really hard at the gym and publishing my first npm package just before lunchtime, a good meal at now now but a crap smoothie, an hour of struggling with the next task before heading to pick up mr smear and having to wake him up from what looked like an amazing nap
stopping for coffee, then driving to my mom's to pick up fans, taking mr smear to the company gardens on his plastic bike to feed squirrels, home and poolside (the water was great), jiu-jitsu videos and curry club dinner, a post-showertime argument with mr smear over whether cream kills mushrooms, nodding off while reading him to sleep
thursday 25th:
a rough night with mr smear waking up in a 20 minute mystery tantrum, an early morning but getting very little work done, dropping mr smear off late and barely joining my meeting on time, grocery shopping and a quick leftovers breakfast at home (omg curry club is amazing), a good few hours working from the gym, getting mr smear home and continuing to work at the coffee shop, picking up aftercare ointment and coming home to take mr smear to the pool, a long struggle trying to get him to overcome his fears but making a bit of progress, a great dinner, seeing past two magicians on fool us, a positive shower, preparing to live stream, watching a whole bunch of bill burr and louis ck videos (the latter somewhat less funny because we now know how close to home his jokes are), feeling ill (was it the liquorice?), getting about an hour of work in before going to bed around midnight
friday "the big day" 26th:
a generally good start to the day, live-stream failing for the first half hour but the rest successful, a generally manageably painful tattoo aside from one intense moment halfway and the last ten minutes were so painful I became faint
picking up mr smear with gd, a moment for lunch, a mission to pick up seitan and chat with two people about my new ink, a drive through to the doctor in sea point, picking up kimchi at the spar and meds at dischem (an interesting chat with the pharmacist's assistant about orthodox hypocrisy right next to a rabbi's wife), rushing back home to pick up mr smear and get to the temple, mostly running around outside, the rabbis' surprising interest in my ink and projects, leading our friends home for dinner, my mother's impressively calm response to the new tattoo, a lovely standing dinner and a great evening
the wrapped tattoo irritation
saturday 27th:
aftercare instructions plus rls for the loss
getting a little sleep in, cleaning up the ink and being very happy with the results, a morning monitoring social media, taking mr smear to the company gardens, the little homeless kids attaching themselves to him and his plastic motorbike, walking him through his apparent fear of dinosaurs, followed him teaching a stranger about the dinosaurs and the kid's father gripping me by the elbow of my new tattoo arm to chat about childhood memories of the place
literally running around upstairs until mr smear had a potty training accident, cleaning up and going home for lunch, bloons, and no naps
a waterfront mission for a birthday book (of course i bought a copy for mr smear too), quickly picking up groceries and having to protect my ink while in a long queue next to a family with no sense of personal space...
picking up mr smear and meeting his friend at green point park, trying to stay in the shade and talking the ears off his playdate's dad and our old neighbour, mr smear peeing next to the car before we left (so proud) and passing out when we arrived at the temple
a pleasant evening, having a coffee with sailor, mr smear's boundless energy, being cornered by a granny and her photos, mr smear participating in the havdalah ceremony, home, shower, crashing while reading
and midnight rls
sunday 28th:
a beautiful day overshadowed with unnecessary tension, a fun birthday party in camps bay, a nap (for me), finally putting out a second sonnet analysis video, gd taking over the bedtime detail, going to bed early
monday 29th:
managing to get up and out of bed at 5am in spite of having been in the middle of a dream, working for a couple of hours until taking the car to get a light repaired (gd handling the morning and taking mr smear to school), working from the gym and making very slow progress, a falafel laffa break on a miserable day, another few hours of work but with so much waiting finding time to get minor chores done
getting home in miserable weather and not doing much, a generally okay evening and pleasantly reading mr smear to sleep, watching seth rogan's hilarity for charity and finding it utterly boring
tuesday 30th:
fifteen minutes of convincing my son that he needs to go to school if he wants to work with me, eventually promising him that i'd teach him something in the afternoon
coming up with some ideas for the next three tattoos
working from the gym (freezing), picking up gd for a feedback session with the primary concern being mr smear's refusal to respond to his name instead of the character on his shirt
tattoo itch part two
mr smear hurting my feelings before i headed off to the coffee shop to work, feeling exhausted, getting little done aside from arguing with a conservative idiot in the comments of a post in which i was ranting about a neo-liberal idiot
quick shopping, home, taking mr smear on his balance bike (against his will, he wanted his plastic bike, but he enjoyed it) and teaching him about winning and losing, forgetting my sweater and freezing in the wind
alphabet puzzles, a pleasant shower and gd taking over bedtime until the end when i had to explain that i needed to work and he couldn't help me yet...
and evening of coffee and comedy and a little bit of work,
wednesday 31st:
and posting this, and now going to bed soon (it's 00.30)
