a not-long-enough weekend

i don't know how it's tuesday already. almost 2am on a tuesday. my knees still in trouble and i'm really glad i have an appointment to see the orthopedist. it felt like it was getting better, although without much mobility, but now feels like it's getting worse. my sleep was improving until yesterday and then went right back to awful.

with gd in severe back pain and having to catch up on a whole bunch of work we pay our cleaning lady to do, and with my knee out of order, we've barely been taking mr smear out lately. so my mom came over to help us yesterday and today, yesterday for a walk around the company gardens and today for an aquarium mission. i loved seeing her reaction to mr smear demolishing his tofu / avo / edamame rice lunch.

in general mr smear's been pretty cool the last couple of days, we've had a lot of push-back but only one or two incidents where we've needed to put a foot down. i know i'm biased, but i'm really proud of my little boy and in particular how sharp he is ^_^

we watched titan a.e. last night and howl's moving castle this evening, both movies gd wasn't interested in watching and by the end of which she'd bought into, so that was cool.

i spent the larger part of yesterday refactoring my latest personal project (the chat server), frustrated by the fact that i needed to put in so much work when i thought i was ready for the next phase. that is always the price of quick and dirty hacking.

our neighbor's having a rough time, and there doesn't appear to be much we can do to help him. i hope he comes right.

i've just finished recording the latest podcast episode, which i'm pretty happy with, and there're a couple of important bureaucratic things i've been procrastinating about so i have plenty to keep me busy tomorrow outside of work.

i'm exhausted. i suspect i might be coming down with something. my knee hurts. i'm going to bed.