one more time, with feeling

it's past midnight, time for a quick memory dump before another night of trying to sleep without hurting myself. the past few nights have been abysmal failures.

the past week was hardcore. my counterpart has taught me as much as he could before leaving for vacation, and as of yesterday i'm now the only person available if anything breaks and i feel like we've barely scratched the surface. the next two weeks will hopefully be much quieter than i'm anticipating, and i suspect my low-level anxiety has been triggered more by my previous work experience than anything real.

my side-project's going pretty well, over the course of the weekend i've figured out another piece of the puzzle and i feel like i have enough to get the critical functionality ready before presenting it in a week and a half.

 i spent a couple of hours sorting out my great-aunt's computers, and i'm really proud of the fact that they got back to her with the changes feeling familiar enough for her to be enthusiastic about them ^_^

yesterday's mission to the mall: three and a half hours of supporting gd, entertaining mr smear, and spending a month's rent on a sewing machine. it was exhausting, but we shared a lot of good moments too.

on friday evening i noticed a box that gd had "hidden in plain sight", it was my swag from the beta-program i've been working on as my "side project". mr smear was particularly excited by the lego stars wars hover bike, so we made that together yesterday morning and he's been obsessed with it since:D

 i don't recall what made me watch hannah gadsby's nanette, but i'm glad i did. it's pretty powerful, and while there are a couple of nuances i disagree with i think it was brilliant.

i feel like there was something else important that i needed to put down, but if there is it's escaped me. i guess overall i'm feeling pretty grateful right now. life's mostly excellent at the moment. fairly tough. occasionally infuriating. generally gratifying.