mid-weekend

yesterday:

my son now has a certificate from the ER commending him on his bravery. somehow, after years of explaining to teachers that he has a dairy allergy, we ended up in a situation where a parent surprised the class with cupcakes, nobody informed us, and another kid convinced my son that the cupcakes were dairy free. this apparently happened just before i picked him up - how long before, i guess i'll find out on monday - and i walked/carried him straight to the emergency ward (my car's being checked, an uber might easily have taken longer than walking, and it didn't occur to me to get a teacher / another parent to drive us) where in spite of a thoroughly incompetent triage doctor we managed to get him inside and on a drip before anything too crazy went down.

so that happened.

otherwise, it was a mildly fun work day and quite productive. a highlight of the day was a surprise call from my manager who i haven't spoken to in over a month, and it was nice to find ourselves quite well aligned (i'd been a bit anxious).

anyway, it's somewhat relaxing about being expected to focus on only one project.

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i think last night was the third night in a row that we tried to watch an episode of resident alien and both passed out halfway through.

today:

this shabbat's morning service put me in a grim mood, because hypocrisy. the same hypocrisy that's been bothering me for years.

blessed are you oh lord our god who authorizes us to employ willful ignorance as we encourage and support acts of extreme cruelty that bring destruction to our planet and ourselves for the sake of our gluttonous desires

otherwise, good service. i had breakfast, watched evangelion 3.33, then passed out for a while. mr smear and the neighbours' kid spent the day together and we had the afternoon to ourselves, i read a little bit of sláine: time killer, sailor came over for a short visit, my mom picked up mr smear and we enjoyed a date night. we watched free guy! aside from, like, three irritating hollywoodisms, it's an excellent and entertaining movie :)

i've spent the past few hours trying to migrate my services to an upgraded droplet, and it's been a slow and frustrating process. hopefully, i'll score more than one win before i give up and go to bed.