two down, two to go

 well, mostly down. i've spent the past two days at my mom's, very focused and making up as many hours as i can before month's end. omg it's almost october already. anyway, aside from my right eye inexplicably taking a *lot* of strain, it's been a productive two days and i've got quite a few hours under my belt.

sunday was another good day. mr smear made crazy things in minecraft (including building the minecraft letters and a few of the minecraft characters), and i spent a large part of my day hacking away at the database. it would take me until the middle of the night to understand that the script i found was actually working fine, and the field i was trying to extract actually *was* encrypted. kind of. using a variation of a rotation cipher, which literally amazed me (not least because they had the audacity to describe their encryption as unbreakable in their documentation).

seriously, hacknet just got *so* real for me.

i took mr smear out for ice cream but grumpy & runt had just closed, though my mom was in the area and we went through to mouille point with her for oreo shakes. she dropped us off at home just in time for me to grab my gear and drive back to sea point to join the rollerblading group, and then next couple of hours were really nice and heavier on the cardio than my body was expecting.

big news: it looks like gd's police clearance has *finally* been delivered to the montreal consulate, so hopefully we'll have her authenticated documents here within a couple of weeks. we're also expecting her local clearance to arrive soon, so we *should* be able to move forward with the aliyah process soon.

also big news: we've been discussing my mom's plans, too, and it looks like there are some pretty good options for her which is really exciting!

right, now to see if we can get mr smear into bed reasonably soon so i can jump back into one of my jobs. gd just got her last tattoos for the year, on her shoulders, so i don't know if she'll be able to join me and get vaccinated tomorrow...