first and last days

 the past week was dominated by my scrambling to complete my final project. it's stressful because i keep hitting walls and i get the feeling that my "replacement" (a coworker that i generally get along well with) really doesn't seem very invested in its success... not entirely unfamiliar, i'm reminded of my last team-lead role in montreal...

having said that, i am enjoying the work itself.

over the weekend we rented a car2go for the day and drove up to visit kibbutz cousin, her son and his daughters were there and we generally had a lovely day!

today we took mr smear to his new school, talked to the principal and counselor, then hung around with the teacher who's pretty much the school's answer to hagrid. the school feels kinda like a real-world analog to hogwarts, they're got a bunch of animals and an urban farming section that the kids are responsible for, a "junkyard", and plenty of facilities.

after that, i took a bus to the licensing bureau. i had to wait two weeks for the appointment, then more than an hour. i was falling asleep by the time my number was called, and i was out of there less than five minutes later with instructions for renewing my license that i'd discover later are impossible to follow :/

anyway, i've just spent four hours figuring out and coming up with a workaround for the fact that the C# aws sdk's dynamodb object persistence model manipulates datetime strings under the hood which breaks all our contracts :(

anyway. let's see how tomorrow goes!