stretched

i was too tired to sit straight on the couch last night, and i hurt my back. it's been painful and uncomfortable and distracting all day and i'm about to enter a new week in dire need of a rest.

i thought i was done with the podcast shenanigans yesterday, but i had some more to do today. i'm really happy that i eventually did the tough work using xml and xslt, because i ended up needing to port my service from node.js to php and i had very little dev translation to do. i'm extremely pleased with the results!

we thought mr smear was doing much better today, he was doing much better but still isn't out of the woods. i braved taking him outside (and away from a toilet) for the first time since tuesday, and just being able to spend a few minutes pushing him on the swing and eating roasted corn nibs on the bench were fantastic.

the preliminary results from the sample i dropped off yesterday are that he's picked up shigella, so we're treating it with antibiotics. reading up on it, i found "shigella cells may cause dysentery. in rare cases, young children may have seizures" and i was immediately both scared of that happening and relieved and grateful that it hasn't happened. jesus. and then i was distracted by the fact that our medical insurance isn't paying for our prescription meds, which we really can't afford and i'm at a loss as to how to manage that.

we watched asterix & obelix: mission cleopatra, which was great but towards the end not so appropriate for mr smear... i tried to make progress on my latest podcast episode, i'm roughly halfway through and excited about the result so far but i've got to call it a night and continue tomorrow.

shane koyczan's turn on a light was a source of inspiration during my two night-terror experiences and i am compelled to share it in the hopes that somebody finds it useful.