relativity

last night i got a relatively decent night's sleep. we'd bought a fan yesterday morning and some insect killers (the kind you plug in to vaporize insecticide), i went to bed earlier than planned and aside from lower back pain during the night and twisting my neck just before waking up everything was fine.

it just suddenly occurred to me that of all the problems i have with sleeping, the biggest by far is that whenever i finally do get a chance to rest i'm either hit by rls, or lower back pain, with the latter only really becoming a thing over the course of the last two weeks (since i lifted the grate to save the chicks).

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yesterday and today have been considerably cooler than the sauna temperatures from monday, and while i'm not 100% the cold that hit me hard over the weekend seems to have run out of steam. gd and i dropped mr smear off at school to another dramatic "no, don't go!" goodbye, then headed downtown to do some shopping, then came back home to work.

ostensibly.

in the midst of a ton of bureaucracy which would consume most of my day - people needing to be paid, people owing me money and undelivered goods, dealing with insurance idiots - i suddenly remembered at hour 22 that i had a 24-hour deadline to response to a request from company 1 which required finding a bunch of historical data and printing / signing / scanning, which means that at approximately hour 23 i returned from the printers with considerably higher levels of stress than was necessary.

picking up mr smear, heading to the coffee shop to work and passing by the tattoo parlour for a quick consultation, finally getting a little bit of work done, rushing to pick up pita bread and coming home to find that gd has learned to make good za'atar

really realizing that i'm doing the next two tattoos today! watching hunter x hunter with mr smear before shower and bedtime, getting a little more work done and finally crashing

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it has been really hard to find time to work this week, and even harder to find motivation, but what's particularly sad is that i've had a couple of really cool breakthroughs and nobody to share them with, and nobody on my team is interested in looking at my code so i'm stuck celebrating myself by myself. which kind of sucks. i'm really, really excited about going to work for company 1. this shit has been lonely AF.