the dumps

it's been a tough forty-eight hours, gd and i have picked up some kind of stomache bug and it's not showing any signs of letting up.

in spite of that, i've had some good swimming sessions with mr smear, gd and i Got Stuff Done* and i managed to get the first draft of an article completed that i've been planning for years... 

* although it did require a lot of back-and-forth between the country's two largest mobile providers whose employees couldn't agree on the porting protocol.

when the nanny left, gd and i were lying down on our bed and after a couple of minutes i suddenly realized that we hadn't heard a peep from mr smear... i walked in to the living room to find him quietly devouring jelly beans from the jar he'd had to climb to retrieve. he doesn't usually consume much sugar, and spent the longest time afterwards bouncing off the walls and driving us crazy! 

in other news, we're sad for my great aunt, she broke her femur today :(