thursday already?

the week's been a rush. even the good parts have been exhausting. it's been half days work-wise, full days of everything else. the biggest highlight of my work week so far was today - two meetings in which i managed to redirect development efforts with buy-in from my peers, and an invitation from my boss to work on a project that i'd be only too happy to.

today's drama: my old bank wasting my time unashamedly, to the point where i told the cashier to destroy my card before withdrawing all my cash, and now i've got to get them to close the account which i assume will be a story. that's the second bank that's burned me since we've arrived.

i spent sunday setting up a project for aws deployment, which was mostly successful but i ran into some issues. when i checked in with our resident expert the next day, i was not as surprised as i should be to learn about the existing packages that do what i need which are inexplicably hard to find out about. now that i've played around with them - sam and cdk are good solutions - my next step is figuring out how to use them together. and then, if i'm lucky, i'll be able to actually Do The Thing because the architecture and the code itself were definitely, definitely the easy part.

apparently my back's in better shape since i started rounding my shoulders, the physio's happy with the improvement. what i'm not happy with is that i've noticed that since the lockdown began my legs have been shrinking again...