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 it's late. again. i had things i'd planned on doing, but then an hour or two ago while dealing with some travel agent drama (every time i talk to her i drop a few thousand rand) we realized something horrifying: we thought we'd be out of south africa by september, and in all the madness i've completely forgotten to renew *his* passport.

jesus, fuck.

so we're busy scrambling to try and get him out the country without it, which is... complicated. we might have a way, but at the same time we might have to wait for a new one to be issued. i've managed to start the application process online, but i can't make the payment because - and i can't believe i'm typing this - my bank's payment systems are offline from 8pm to 8am according to their 24/7 hotline.

jesus, fuck.

so tomorrow's going to be a story.

anyway, after a brief update with the mongoose i've realized that this kind of setback is no different to us getting a positive PCR test result, so whatever. we'll deal.

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in apartment and job hunting news, we found four good apartment candidates last night alone, which gives me confidence that we'll find *something* in reasonable time. i've also applied to a couple of job that look really interesting and had a long chat with a dev at one of the MAMAA companies and gain some more insight into the current state of things, and i'm going to take the mongoose's advice and relax on that too, i'm confident i'll find something good quickly enough.

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reviewing python code isn't the same as writing it. so when my python migration script ran smoothly to completion the first time i employed it yesterday, a script i'd spent a few hours polishing that integrates three components i've never directly worked with before, i had to walk away for the day with a

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