two-in-one day

 two days in a row sitting in front of my laptop for many hours straight (not including getting up occasionally to make tea). i managed to walk around the block yesterday, today not so much.

monday was super frustrating, because instead of starting the deployment we've been working towards, i spent most of it making nitpick changes to code that's going to be ripped out later anyway. having said that, the nitpicking wasn't wrong, and the code does look better for it. today wasn't frustrating, but highly irritating (i feel like there's a difference), as i spent most of it waiting for terraform / terragrunt and struggling to fix things that really should be taken care of by the framework.

having said that, my manager seems pleased with my efforts and i've definitely learned a lot from the experience. it also helps that i'm paid hourly wages.

we've been having conversations with mr smear, and are at a point where we're trying to teach him basic manipulation techniques: be kind to others and listen to them, so that you can find their levers to get them to cooperate with you. it's an odd lesson, one i feel i need to be working on myself.

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stage 4 load-shedding on top of everything else is making me feel like south africa is not-so-gently shooing us away. i'm feeling a bit less anxious than i was before, having a list definitely helps. even if that list does seem to be constantly growing :P