keep trying, you'll get better

jesus, my physio exercises took me two hours on sunday night. fortunately i could entertain myself with hyperdrive, which is fun.

yesterday was a day heavy with meetings and very bureaucratic work. it wasn't a nice day weather-wise, either. i did some grocery shopping on the way home, and then playground politics for a spell: it took a while to get mr smear to talk to me about it, and we had a Very Important Talk about bullying that i hope was productive.

the theme of the evening was reminding mr smear that you don't become good at things without trying and failing. it took him a while (and an episode or two of daniel tiger's neighborhood) to get the idea, but by bedtime he'd gotten the hang of basic driving with disney's cars and crash bandicoot 3's hog and jetski levels!

today was less tedious, i didn't get mr smear out of bed in reasonable time but i was quite proud of myself for getting him completely ready and us both out of the house by 8.15. i dropped him off at school, and was saying goodbye when he yelled to his friend across the courtyard "hey! yesterday [bully a] and [bully b] were really mean..." just as [bully a]'s mother was walking right past us! if it was *my* kid i would have been super-embarrassed and stopped to say something, but she just carried on and i think that's quite telling...

i walked to work, had a mostly productive day, had a surprisingly candid lunch with a couple of my teammates, took the stairs for the first time, walked home to work a little bit more while the rabbi visited, patiently suffered my dramatic teammate wasting my time and making an ass of herself on our team channel.

my mom picked us up and we all went grocery shopping, then came home and mr smear got stuck into crash bandicoot and black hole apocalypse before showering, dinner, and then more crash bandicoot before bed. on the one hand, i now agree with gd that we shouldn't let him play before bed. on the other, it was freaking AWESOME to see him getting so into it and having such a good time! and his hand-eye coordination is improving rapidly ^_^

three short books and some poetry to bed (i love that he enjoys my poems), and aside from this i've been doing housekeeping... i'm really pleased that after my complaints from saturday's crypto experience the exchange has investigated and discovered a bug and a bunch of issues that they weren't aware of, and the toy company that tried to con us has admitted to receiving the goods back in good condition and they claim to have refunded the money.