rollercoaster

 mr smear's come down with something (seems like a regular cold), apparently gd's been hit too and i'm not sure if i had it a week ago, or if that was just allergies and i'm on my way too...

yesterday:

working from home on tuesday mornings is fantastic - it's not monday and things are quite quiet.

we did make some progress, but i was feeling slow and stupid (possibly due to the antihystamines).

i ended up working late, and it took hoooouuuuurrrsssss to get mr smear through the bedtime routine by which point i was done.

today:

mr smear stayed home, after a slow but moderately successful start to the day (that included a delicious improvised "krabby patty") i drove to my mother's. i was thoroughly unmotivated until after lunch and the post-lunch presentation, and then i threw myself into improving our git tools until a coworker distracted me with an interesting challenge, and i eventually left my mom's so late that she opened the door while i was putting my sneakers on.

krybabie update: it's freaking scary how rapidly things are deteriorating and it seems like it's irreversible; this is absolutely heartbreaking.

i came home to another great dinner (mr smear's being thoroughly spoiled) and spent just under four hours designing and building the MVP for our package management system which should give us all the ammunition we need for the morning's meeting on the topic.

i love that in less than four hours - less than three if i hadn't hit a really weird bug with JSON parsing - i was able to go from rough idea to functional tool using my AWS CDK repo as a guide!