to be productive or not to be

yesterday:

getting some good - no, great! - work done, getting  suckered in to taking gd to pick up mr smear, who fell asleep in the car so i sat with him and figured out the new bluetooth gadget (so i can now control the radio from *my* phone when i'm driving) while gd did the grocery shopping, coming home to rest, Do Stuff, then take gd to the temple for the friday night service... which turned out to be a bit of a bummer, because they'd moved the entire kid's corner out of the synagogue for a big event and so the two of us played with crappy toys in the library by ourselves (although i did discover a cool book: yiddish folktales by beatrice weinrich)

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driving home from the temple, a man in front was driving way too slowly so i took a look at him as i passed and saw that his head was bowed and he was not looking anywhere remotely in the direction of his windshield. "look where you're driving!", i yelled, and his elderly indian head popped up, looked at me, then gave me the traditional what-do-you-want-from-me wobble and shouted that he couldn't understand what i was saying. so i clarified, to which he responded that he knew where he was going, so what should he look for?

people, man. people.

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a nice friday night dinner, i tried watching jimmy carr after mr smear went to sleep but after fifteen minutes determined that he's like conan o'brien: great joke writer, but awfully unfunny execution. i then proceeded to watch the netflix documentary inside the mossad, which was great, then entered the now-usual struggle to go to sleep.

receiving a really nice email from my current employer gracefully accepting my resignation!

today:

an acceptably reasonable rest, gd leaving for her course then suddenly remembering that there was a kid's event happening at the temple... a rushed exit, but mr smear and i having a pretty good time overall. he had phenomenal timing for a toilet run, just before we left, passed out in the car and for the next couple of hours gave me space to work on my book. the afternoon was a mix-and-match, including a fair amount of playing with duplo and some real struggling with my neck, back and legs, and after an early shower we settled in to watch labyrinth. we weren't 100% sure it was a good idea at first, but we got through most of the movie by bedtime and he was thoroughly engrossed ^_^

since then, i've watched a very good jen kirkman: just keep livin', and i'm now trying to decide if i'm tired enough to attempt to sleep or if i should be productive for an hour or so.