small victories

 gd and i just watched the little things, which is pretty good. on a different level of little things:

• i've just made some more progress on my mobile app, at least enough to feel like i'm ready to give my client a trial run
• i finally got back on the exercise bike this evening
• aside from an embarrassing (public) brain-fart in the evening, and in spite of heavy distractions today, i actually managed to get some work done. those heavy distractions included:
• helping to manage mr smear's first virtual lessons for the year (my bad, he missed one of them)
• him and his playdate shrieking at the tops of their lungs in the afternoon
• a large herd of yaks that queued up for shaving
• mr smear and i had an unpleasant run in this morning while gd was out, but i managed to turn it into a calm conversation and improved behaviour so i'm feeling pretty pleased with myself

oh, yeah - and my day started with me waking up a stranger to inform her that in response to my complaints about their negligence, nedbank had sent me a copy of her personal details and private account numbers and balances and that she might want to reconsider which institutions she places her trust.

oh, and one more oh yeah: after a bit of back and forth, it looks like the illustrator and i agree on the concept for page 11 so i'm quite excited to see the results.

oh! one extra "yeah" - gd's documents have arrived in the country, we're praying they make it the last stretch in a reasonable amount of time.