a welcome rest

it's been another long week, although thankfully not as intense as the previous ones. the major theme of this week was a continuation of the weekend - setting up virtual machines - but although i've lost a day's worth of billable hours and tons of productive time, i feel like my equipment is in a good place right now. i'm immensely amused by the fact that after much hunting, i finally found a way to get accented characters on my windows machine! my first (and possibly last) purchase on the microsoft store is a relatively expensive app called holdkey, which makes your keyboard do exactly what a macbook does out of the box. if i wasn't regularly typing my german boss' name, i don't know if i'd feel it was worth it but as it stands i'm getting great value for my money!

speaking of which, gd's totally addicted to duolingo and her hebrew's improving dramatically ^_^

by the end of monday i was finally ready to prepare all of gd's aliyah documents for the courier, and then realized that i was so focused on her canadian police clearance i completely forgot that she needed south african clearance as well, so that was another workday effectively struck from the record :(

mr smear's birthday celebrations seem to have calmed down, there's something palpably more mature about him all of a sudden and it's kinda freaking me out.

i've finally gotten back into the sandman comics again, and the boys is AMAZING. i'm also finding a bit of space to think about mobile development for a volunteer project i've agreed to take on, and hopefully i'll be able to make some space this weekend for the sonnetcomix project. and teach mr smear to ride a bike.

i just heard that krybabie has been diagnosed with the same thing my father had around the time we became friends, feeling really sad for him and his family right now.