a stressful start to my staycation

friday... friday, friday, friday. workwise, a remarkably unsatisfying day. but a few of us walked out for the global climate strike march, and aside from the route making it impossible to keep my new tattoos out of the sun it was a positive experience. i met gd and mr smear and our friends at the grocery store, my mom came over for friday night dinner, and that was the week that was.

gd and i started dark phoenix, but almost ruining the movie with a misunderstanding.

saturday:

starting the day playing lego batman, then my mom picking us up for a shopping run in the rain (finding a bed, giving up on silicon wedding rings, and an afternoon navigating mall people at the waterfront).

trying to teach mr smear how days work.

bambi. peter pan.

gd and i finishing dark phoenix which was awesome.

sunday:

migrating sonnetcomix.com back to blogger, which is so much better than wordpress. and moving another domain from godaddy to hover, which is extremely gratifying.

taking mr smear to the aquarium. then for lunch (he made me SO proud, but he ate so well i barely had lunch and we HAD to have ice cream afterwards). running into our friends and a coworker, the kids playing terribly on the playground and the day officially ending with mr smear hitting a little kid back, after which i took him straight home for long lectures and no television.

watching firefly by myself. because i'm on holiday.

today:

happily figuring out a new way of working with mysql this morning, and this evening completing a migrations package for it. in between, we all walked to the bank - everything there was broken or useless - then to the locksmiths for patent screws, then to steers for delicious veggie burgers, then we headed to complete volumes of documentation for the bed purchase before rushing home to slug a cup of coffee before i took mr smear to his first swimming lesson at the school i learned in.

it started off well because a friend of his was already in the pool, but then a mother came in with an older kid who was throwing a full-scale toddler tantrum and she did NOT handle it well. mr smear took his cue and behaved badly until i had a chat with him, but he wasn't very cooperative for the rest of the lesson even if overall he did pretty well.

anyway.

we watched most of spider-man: into the spider-verse this evening, but then mr smear stopped and decided he wanted to play our adventure time-themed guess who? game, and although it took a while to get him to play it correctly, with a little assistance from gd he actually beat me! it was great, especially when (just as gd arrived) he looked up at me and asked "is your character humanoid?"

it's been a long-slog evening getting the migrations package working well, i've done a bunch of other stuff, it's late, i'm going to bed.

...

it's worrying us that my mom's suffering from vertigo again.

our neighbour's door bangs whenever there's wind. repeatedly. it's infuriating because it does that because he keeps messing with it and he doesn't have a clue what he's doing.

oh, and we thought we were done with the invisible parasites. gd and i are both feeling them again.