time warp

it's sunday night / 00.30 on a monday morning, i've just finished a game of thunderstone with shadowslight and vfmp, another week's calendar pages have flitted by and the weekend flew past even faster.

i managed to last week's money stuff sorted out, there're still a couple of minor things to be taken care of but things are generally feeling positive.

we had haircuts this week: gd cut mine, and then her own. i've uninstalled bacterial takeover again, it's a dangerous waste of time...

another sonnetcomix page is up!

it was a weekend of harry potter (movies 2, 3 and the beginning of 4), two bedtimes in a row have been chapters from the magician's nephew, and mr smear (with one or the other of us) has spent a lot of time doing pretty cool things on little big planet. one remarkable moment: we haven't played it in months (at least), and when i arrived at the grappling hook level he yelled "go over there! go get the grappling hook!"

"grappling hook" is not a term we throw around in the household, how the $#@! he remembered that word or where i was going to find it just blows my mind.

otherwise, i've spent a fair amount of time looking into various cloud solutions for my bank card application, it was really hard choosing a platform and it's a bit frustrating that i have to get the hang of managing the component services manually before i'll know what i need to be able to put together infrastructure-as-code scripts.

anyways.

the last work-week was broken again, but one thing stood out: i hurriedly put together a presentation on security and customer privacy that i felt was trash, and it was received surprisingly enthusiastically. then i spent hours reviewing code and had a lot of criticism, which felt pretty good considering that it was code by the guy who's been giving me a relatively hard time and i got to feel like i'm a bit more on an equal footing.

hopefully this next week will be more constructive.