serenity now!

the biggest lesson from this past week is "calm the f*** down". everything's super-stressful, we have tons of work and lots of time pressure and a million things interfering with me actually getting the job done. but i can only do so much, and sometimes - like yesterday - i need to find a quiet corner and stare out the window for a bit to gear up to do the thing.

also, my troublesome teammate finally informed us that she's pregnant, which validates my suspicions and explains why she's been so damned difficult over the last while.

wednesday and thursday were awful days at work. hours and hours of farting against the thunder, only to discover that every single issue i encountered had to do with broken dependencies - not with me doing things wrong. and then yesterday, i got some help with my dev environment that had been so thoroughly by monday's VPN outage, and the IT department resolved the issue that cost me two hours of my life being unable to connect to the network that i was already connected to.

it was that sort of a week. but it ended on a good note, with real progress along two vectors and a really interesting beer with a teammate.

mr smear was great at the temple service last night, although he made up for it with a quick pre-bedtime tantrum, and i went to bed early for an uncomfortable but long attempt to rest. today has begun as intended, installing gamemaker studio (of course, my free trial expired a month ago) and unity, with the intention of building simple games with mr smear and a less simple game that i woke up thinking about yesterday morning.

also, new ink on the horizon. also, it's looking like quite a nice day so maybe i'll take mr smear out for a walk now.