dammit

i've just spent hours struggling with something really simple, after a long and somewhat frustrating day at work, and it was a combination of what appears to be some kind of regional aws service outage and me misunderstanding a fundamental limitation of dynamodb.

at least there's an easy solution to the limitation, but it's been a long night getting there that i really didn't need. 

interrupted by a phone call from montreal informing me that we do, in fact, need to start the whole police clearance thing again because the jewish agency wasn't clear (i double checked earlier in case it was me missing something) about their documentation requirements. i'm praying that there's some kind of shortened process for recent clients.

oh, yes. and one side of my jaw's suddenly swollen and sore. is that a covid symptom?