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this past week has been intense. i worked from home on wednesday because i was sick, and while my cold seemed to get better by the afternoon it didn't really slow down until today, and i'm really hoping it's over because i've spent most of the past week struggling with my sinuses and throat, and feeling both exhausted and wired simultaneously because of the sudafed.

thursday afternoon i left work with a bee in my bonnet, and after mr smear fell asleep i continued working until 2am,then continued again in the morning. friday was a public holiday, i spent most of it helping my mom get ready for our big family dinner in honour of mr smear's birthday, which was a really nice evening.

i spent a large amount of the weekend putting together a website for my mom's new venture (which is unofficially mine), which forced me to finally - a year or two after i originally decided i needed to - replace apache with nginx on my server. it took a lot of work to get all my services up and running correctly, but i'm extremely satisfied with how everything worked out and it's given me a great sense of achievement.

i've been walking quite a lot with mr smear lately, and on friday i actually took him to the garden with a real soccer ball and the skills he demonstrated were a really great surprise!

a pity the waffle place was closing when we arrived yesterday.

oh! but i published the corrected page 3 on sonnetcomix.com! it feels good to be making some progress.

today was long, involved a lot of frustrating work, and i learned that the biggest issue i struggled with a couple of weeks ago was caused by me mistakenly following the damned instructions :/

another satisfying success this evening with my phone control service, a pleasant bedtime routine, pickle rick, and now an early bedtime again.