hello monday

i'm beginning to believe that replacing coffee with green tea is helping immensely. i'm also beginning to believe that i'm getting older because my lower back is hinting at me.

yesterday was very full, we had a family lunch at cafe riteve, picked up a birthday present (and an awesome spiderman activity book with figurines for mr smear), arrived only half an hour late at the blue train for the birthday party, generally enjoyed everyone's company, left too late to visit the rabbi, dropped gd off at the hospital (she was having another allergic reaction), got mr smear into the pool for a bit, got frustrated with my mom's email setup again, and i think i went to bed at a reasonable hour.

this morning i woke up around 5am, worked on my podcast for a couple of hours, including recording it (pity the volume didn't pick up properly, i think it's because of the ambient noise that late in the morning), dropping mr smear off at school, hitting the gym to work and spending a good chunk of the morning chatting with shared-workspace co-workers, lunch with gd and a friend, home to nap for twenty minutes, then leaving for a final technical interview

arriving late because an uber driver had accepted my fare with no intention of picking me up whatsoever. when i called the second time, after six minutes of not moving during which i could have walked to where he was, he hurled abuse at me and told me to cancel - which i did, but i was already late.

a very positive interview, returning home, playing with mr smear for a while, at least until he started misbehaving in the garden, showering and eating a delicious dinner and crashing on the couch while mr smear watched adventure time, going to bed early but getting up to do hackerrank problems and a little work, now about to crash and try the early morning approach again.