more positive

 things i didn't mention yesterday: we started off the day watching spiderman: homecoming - we've agreed with mr smear that we're all (especially him) going to ignore bad language in movies. i could only remember the half of far from home that i'd seen that had put me off, i'd completely forgotten how great homecoming is! we also watched cars (my and mr smear's first time) - although i passed out for a chunk of it - and it was enjoyable. it also renewed his interest in the video game, which is a win (he's not usually into anything competitive).

last night gd and i discussed his punishment, and then punishments in general, and this morning we hit the reset button and sat down with him to discuss a new strategy. so far, so good.

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last night, we watched jackass 3. in retrospect, we should have watched vampire hunter d (we've picked up a digital copy of the vampire hunter d: message from mars graphic novel and gd's not familiar with the original) - not because we didn't "enjoy" it, for a given definition of that word, but because it really was just more of the same stuff with a sprinkling of some really uncomfortable bits where we just felt sad for these guys.

in the middle of the night, when i was having trouble sleeping, i got up and started cleaning up and updating my side project repositories which i haven't touched in ages. a short while ago i managed to bring the final component up to speed and i'm ready to start the next bit of work.

this morning was the second not-great-weather day in a row, gd's still very sick and mr smear has been a bit feverish the past couple of days. one thing that we're not sure what to make of is that whatever pest attacked me and mr smear, seems to have stopped. i'm still "feeling things" but i'm not sure if it's psychosomatic or not.

anyway, we watched avatar (the extended version), which was amazing, and i went rollerblading in the afternoon which was mostly relaxed talking time - i might have made a good connection for a business idea i've been bouncing around - and then to "stretch my legs" i raced against the wind to the pavilion and back, a fifteen minute race after which i was out of breath and sweaty.

after a pleasant evening getting mr smear ready for bed, i put on jimmy carr: his dark material (i'm not a jimmy carr fan, but this was pretty good) while fiddling with the repository updates, and am now about to make a quick call to horseman and go to bed.

i forgot to mention watching simon amstell: set free last week - it's really, really great.