success

 today went well. mr smear slept at my mom's last night, so i got to wake up with no harassment (although not that much later than usual). i started my day diving into the calendar package i've been avoiding for months, and the deeper i got the more broken it turned out to be. so i tried looking for alternatives, and found one that works on all my platforms and is made for sane people! it still needed a little bit of trial and error, but by the time we were ready to go out i'd achieved what i set out to do and was feeling pretty good about my day.

my mom took me and mr smear to newlands forest - too cold, he said - so we continued on to kirstenbosch - too hot, he said. we all enjoyed a really nice walk.

i picked up a copy of prison architect and played for a while, then had a bath (i didn't know i needed that), then played some more until dinnertime. we continued watching gravity falls, then had some trouble with mr smear before bedtime... it may have taken a while, and lots of patience, but things got better and even though he didn't get story time we all said good night in good spirits.

our plan for this evening was to do a "watch party" of dune with shadowslight and muadib, but muadib was hit with loadshedding so we've postponed and i spent the evening tightening up my mobile app changes and fiddling with dependency versions. now i'm finding excuses to not go to bed while my macbook updates xcode which is taking forever.