graves, brunch, skateboard

gd waking up hurting, managing to come with to my uncle's consecration but not the family brunch. mr smear being very relaxed in the cemetery, gd becoming upset with me for stepping past my father's grave without acknowledgement to show mr smear my great-grandfather's, reminding me that i should be grateful to him for my existence at least. by that token, if so many of us have a bit of genghis khan in our dna* so we should definitely all be grateful to him, too. also, mud skippers.

* there's no good science behind this theory

i took mr smear to our cousins' and we were there for a while, some interesting conversations and mr smear having a grand old time playing with my nephew's surprisingly sturdy pug.

mr smear passing out on the way home and napping for a while, me being mostly distracted and not really focused on my podcast episode, taking him out with his plastic bike and skateboard and re-learning how to skate a bit before assisting him to stand on the board... we had a lot of fun, and my heart rate hasn't been that elevated from physical exercise / fear in ages!

being sent off to the waterfront to pick up meds and some groceries, coming home to a great dinner and spongebob squarepants and then managing the shower  / bedtime for a bit. mr smear took a really long time to calm down, though, so maybe we need to interfere with his naps...

i've invested a lot of energy into 7 billion humans, today mostly in optimizations. it's a game that's both useful professional practice AND good for meditation! a couple of episodes of hunter x hunter with gd, some more work on the sonnets (book 10 of ovid's metamorphosis is awesome), and now one last level before a 1am bedtime...