vacation required

i'm, uh... i'm a bit tired. and stressed. and in need of some time off.

playing a couple of hours of hacknet doesn't count.

i'm pleased to report that the "one job" i was supposed to do yesterday was quick and painless, but we then ran into issues with our build server (atlassian products don't like to enable developers to do things that developers normally need to do without a fight) and it took a lot of trial-and-error before we understood the nature of the limitations and could put a viable-but-ugly workaround in place. on a tenth of our builds. so it will require a fair amount of time to implement the rest tomorrow.

that was for the old team. for the new team, every step along the way we've been uncovering more urgent blocking stuff, it's kinda like shaving a yak except everything is a real dependency. at least i've been able to feel like i'm contributing, which i guess is nice?

today was mr smear's last day of term, so he's on vacation for two weeks. some of this afternoon, with the three of us in the same space and all trying to do very different things, was entirely infeasible and gd's "encouraging" me to go work at my mom's over the course of the next couple of weeks.