conflicting

 mr smear and i had a pretty mixed up day. it started with him being afraid of his shadow, this time claiming minecraft monsters and asking me to delete the game. then i took him out for a walk, which he didn't protest against too much, and on the way to visit my mom at her coffee shop we happening to be in time to go through the art gallery. he was still too scared to go close to the butcher boys, but he was absolutely riveted by sebidi's the child's mother holds the sharp side of the knife.

this gave way to a wonderful teaching moment about the function of art and the possibility of finding a painting beautiful but its subject awful, which tied in nicely to how he really doesn't like the butcher boys which is a really powerful piece.

we had smoothies with my mom - mine was unpleasant and needed to be chased by a chai - then walked home. it was a beautiful, hot day and everything was great until we were almost home, at which point we got into an argument about something really dumb (he was upset with me that i'd said something even though i hadn't said it) that rapidly escalated into an "i hate this family! i don't want parents" to which i responded, probably wrongly, with a pretty calm "come on, i'm taking you to the orphanage".

i guess i handled that badly, because he still doesn't seem to understand that i only said that in response to what he said and that i wasn't actually planning on taking him to an orphanage.

six year olds, amiright?

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at least the rest of the evening was alright. i had a great catchup with vfmp, and otherwise have invested the vast majority of my day (morning, noon and night) in experimenting with encryption tools because  i just couldn't get what i wanted out of the decompilers. if i don't come right soon, i may have to give those another shot...

in other news, gd's been feeling sick.

oh! yesterday: my sister's birthday. we all went out to a restaurant in melkbosstrand. being in close quarters with a bunch of other people was weird. seeing my niece for the first time since she blocked me for unfollowing her on instagram was weird, even weirder that she actually seemed contrite. being disappointed by the vegan offerings was not weird.

another highlight of the day would have been taking mr smear down to the pool for a bit, but unfortunately there were a bunch of indian tourists with a bluetooth speaker smoking and drinking and generally being inconsiderate.

at least that was chased by a long and rather inspiring chat with horseman.

yesterday we gave season 2 of adventure time a go, and i'm surprised that we felt it inappropriate before. it's amazing. i think we got through half of it in one sitting.

i'm getting sleepy. i should probably go to bed soon.

we'll probably be hit by loadshedding soon. so over this country.