checking out after midnight

it somehow feels like the fact that my workday ended a few minutes after midnight just fits in with a general theme over the past few days.

having a car is a game-changer. on wednesday, gd sat down across from me and sternly informed me that i needed to go work somewhere else... on thursday morning i picked up the car and have been working from my mom's since. game-changing! although i'm a bit sad to not be seeing my family during the day, i'm actually able to focus on work for hours at a time and the difference is palpable.

friday was a particularly validating workday, again. it really is a great feeling working for a great employer with a team of decent, competent human beings!

also on friday, i called up telkom to try and find a solution for our "uncapped" connection being throttled every month. i couldn't help laughing out loud when the agent described the different "uncapped" packages - none of which are uncapped - and was stunned when i finally understood her explanation of why i couldn't pay for more data: even though they were throttling us, we technically hadn't run out of data so if we *did* buy more data we'd never get to use it :S

this weekend i finally completed exapunks, i finally got back to it after many months and i was about to give up and copy a solution to the final level when i was inspired to try a simpler but less efficient algorithm. i ended up feeling very pleased with the results, and i really internalized the "moral" of the game by doing so.

on saturday we went to my brother's flat to pick up some stuff.  we left just as the storm started, it was bucketing down.  there was a lot of nostalgia, and a lot of shaking our heads. also, i really feel sad for my younger nephew who's clearly making an effort to right himself after a lifetime of spiritual neglect.

i lost a couple of hours on saturday night trying to synthesize my cdk project, eventually realizing that there are really good reasons for using typescript instead of javascript. on sunday morning i managed to convert everything and by end of the weekend i'd made exciting progress!

all three of us joined gd's friends for a promenade walk on sunday, after which we bumped into one of mr smear's friends at a playground. after that we went to the mall for a looong shopping, and i was so tired that i passed out right after putting mr smear to bed. my legs were *sore* this morning.

sailor's father passed away yesterday, i feel sad for his passing and particularly sad for our friend being in a different country while dealing with his grief :(

i sorted out our ISP problems this morning, we now have a new capped connection that should cover our needs.

there was a complete stuff-up with the removals, and in addition to that the couches my mother brought to her place appear to be infested with something. i was *not* impressed that it didn't occur to her to warn me before i arrived...

omg it's 1am. bedtime.