oh, geez.

 between my neck and my brain, sleeping is work.

in contrast to yesterday, today was a nightmare. it started with a rushed morning (i can't even blame mr smear like usual, *i* made us late), and then the one (paid gig) job i had to take care of got sidelined by very weird bamboo behaviour.

convinced that everything would go smoothly, i finally sat down with my client to import the data and give a quick tour. well, that didn't go very well... after a couple of hours of high stress debugging, interrupted by my wife slicing off her thumbnail and needing to be rushed to the hospital (that literally, and very dramatically interrupted the meeting) and needing to pick up mr smear who was *not* interested in listening to anyone today, i finally discovered that an update that i pushed last night had broken the import. the fix itself was trivial, so all that drama (well, the client drama) was entirely unnecessary.

at least, once the import was done everything else worked beautifully. 

so i eventually got back to work, spending my afternoon performing a lengthy code review and discovering that my manager left for parental leave without posting important credentials to our secrets server, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise because while recreating the credentials we realized that we have some critical administrative functionality that only works in dev. so tomorrow's surprise priority will be figuring out what needs to be deployed and deploying it before friday...

in the late afternoon my mom arrived to show us something amazing: while sorting out my late great aunt's apartment with her cousin, they discovered a small store of documents from my great-grandparents, in particular their travel documents from lithuania at the turn of the 20th century!

also in mom's news, she's justifiably excited to have won a golf club event yesterday that got her name on a trophy that my granny's name is on too :)

...

this morning i showed mr smear the dawn of man sequence from 2001: a space odyssey, now he wants to watch "that silly movie" :P

we started watching the golden compass, he began with his usual "i don't wanna" and ended up with his usual "i don't wanna stop" at shower time.

right, i've been up for an hour or so, and all i've done is post this and watch random stuff over gd's shoulder. additionally, catching up with an old friend and trying to figure out what i called him (i think it's overclocker), but getting a bit lost in reading my old blog posts from a particularly rough period...