needing this weekend, needing this rum

 good lord, today was relatively relaxed but it's been a looooong couple of weeks and i neeeeed this glass of rum followed by a weekend.

mr smear finally went back to school yesterday morning, which was a relief to everyone. the first part of the day was spent resolving our broken tool, and the moment we succeeded i actually had to walk away and scream silently. i wrote an article about it.

after picking up mr smear with gd and paying grumpy & runt a visit (gd got her "fakin and feggs", mr smear got a soft-serve), we returned home and i spent the next couple of hours experimenting with debian package installers until finally arriving at the conclusion that they don't actually support our needs. i wrote an article about that, too.

it's intriguing me that two of my articles have been earning me enough money to cover my medium membership fees, and they're not articles i was particularly excited about.

our neighbours' kid joined us for dinner, and we watched the first few episodes of adventure time. and now i realize that one of the things mr smear does that kinda annoys me, he copied from the ice king. it's our own gorramed fault.

i went to bed early, but i was less sleepy than i was tired and i didn't sleep particularly well.

this morning i got up early, and one of my first achievements was learning how to make gifs from youtube videos (replace youtube.com in the video's url with gifyoutube.com). i dropped mr smear off at their forest school, then got to my mom's just in time for the morning meetings.

my morning was interrupted by a cousin calling me for help with his exam prep (comp. sci.), and we spent an enjoyable hour going over a problem together. then i continued working until it was time to pick up mr smear, dropped him off at home, and was going to return to work but my #$!@ car showed me a warning that i couldn't interpret and i couldn't find my owner's manual so i had to take it in to the service centre. fortunately that was a quick visit, it's booked in for a quick check on tuesday and it's not displaying the warning any more, so i guess i'm safe?

in the afternoon, my mom returned to find her and gd's south african police clearance certificates, which was great news! not so great, though, was discovering that the tracking info for gd's canadian documents hadn't been updated and that the courier service had tried to make contact with me at 11pm last night. after a stressful back and forth via email, i eventually learned that they hadn't picked up the documents at the scheduled time and i've now cancelled them and need to figure out an alternate route - hopefully vfmp will be available, and if not horseman's back in montreal so maybe he could help too.

in spite of the stress, i finished the day with an achievement - the new release candidate is ready and if it makes it through our tests then i won't have this monkey on my back any more and can focus on the tasks that have been piling up in my new team...

i made it home in one piece, and now that i've dumped all this i'm taking a breath...