death of blogger?

good lord, i've finally (okay, a couple of months ago) imported my lost journal entries, and now blogger's forcing an interface update which has limited some functionality that makes this unpleasant to work with. if it doesn't improve / i don't get used to it soon, i guess i'm going to bail. i'm so over poor UX decisions.

in other news, after months of work i've finally presented my serverless solution to the programmable bank card beta group and received an enthusiastic response. and i've finally gotten to the weekend after two really nasty weeks in which i failed to keep things running while my coworker was on vacation.

the former feels amazing, the latter does not.

i've now renewed my license, but not without another story: the eye exam. the machine sucks, and unless you're looking into the lenses from *precisely* the right angle the image is fuzzy and weird. on the third or fourth attempt i managed to adjust my head correctly, and at that point the letters were totally clear and i had no more issues, but obviously *i'm* the problem in the equation...

health-wise i'm feeling much better, but then gd managed to hurt *her* neck so she's been out of action and struggling for the past couple of days :(

mr smear's been mostly awesome - oh! and he's been accepted into the cottage school we applied for, so we're all very excited about that ^_^