drop the pillow

i read this article on sleeping a couple of nights ago, and i've been dropping my pillow on sleeping on my arm since. and it seems to be helping.

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this past week has been... really horrible. my neck and shoulder were simply awful for two days, and have been threatening to seize up again since. to make matters worse, i've spent days trying to figure out how to deploy code so that i can troubleshoot the thing that seemed broken, and over the weekend it began breaking frequently. so lots of stress, loads of repeating the same actions with minor tweaks and praying for a different result. when the alarms continued ringing on sunday, i decided to change tack and use a different OS to deploy (i've been working on a mac). i began setting up my windows machine but that started getting overly-complicated, then make the decision to completely wipe my old laptop and install linux on it.

this turned out to be a good idea for two reasons:

1. i discovered, during installation, that it was never a 32-bit machine! my whole struggle with it a few months back was unnecessary, the idiot who owned it before me installed 32-bit windows which reported it as a 32-bit machine (because windows), and running 64-bit debian on it is surprisingly performant.

2. as of this evening (after an hour or two troubleshooting with a coworker), i finally managed to deploy. the big lesson: the combination of serverless, docker and python is heavy and insanely expensive compared to CDK.

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the weekend was mostly good, although there was one unpleasant incident of arguing about arguing. also, mr smear's been all over the place, his main cry this past week has been "don't boss me around" and "stop forcing me" and when he's not being generally fun to be around he's *really* testing us and pushing boundaries as much as he can.

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i finally went to the traffic department today to renew my license, i had everything on the list. photos were not on the list, so i ignored the warning from security and walked on through. i waited my turn, supplied my documents, and... it turns out the list is wrong. after telling me what should be on the list, the clerk sent me to speak to a supervisor. the other clerk insisted on hearing what i had to say, then argued facts with me until i read the document out loud and explained that what she was saying isn't how english works. she fetched her supervisor. who not only agreed with me, but explained that the traffic department has been requesting an updated form from the department of transport for over a year now. she gave me a different list of requirements. i have to go back tomorrow again.

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my side-project presentation is in two days, i feel like it crept up faster than expected. i'm *this close* to a functional product, and i'm really hoping that the others will be excited enough to participate.