the good and the bad

the good:

mr smear loved his first (actual) day in school, he made some friends and he demonstrated familiarity with the hebrew alphabet (that's thanks to gd). his teacher and the other kids are really cool and made a fantastic first impression.

and it was a bit *weird* coming home without him and working in quiet for a few hours.

we did find a proper supermarket next door to the school, and i broke my fast early today on a new vegan flavour of my favourite cereal of all time.

metal lords is pretty damned metal.

the frustrating:

losing my cool when being "helped" by a representative of the transport ministry; it was shitty and unprofessional service, but i was honestly more upset by the sheer stupidity of the design of their website forms.

we have mosquitoes in the apartment and they're real assholes.

both good and frustrating:

as i posted last night, i got hit with sdk bullshit when working directly with aws resources that didn't happen when working against localstack. i very luckily figured out where the problem was quickly even if it didn't actually make any sense, but it took a few hours to refactor everything to use lower-level calls.

then i made a change in one package not realizing that i was breaking something in another, and i needed them both to work and it took a least an hour or two of insane debugging efforts to put the pieces of the puzzle together. it was a long day, but getting everything running and successfully tested was rewarding and i'm keen to dive back in to the next thing tomorrow.

otherwise, it's my last week with the company and a bunch of "lasts" have been going well. and in general, i'm excited about starting my new gig next week and feeling pretty good about the state of the world. i guess it helps that i've managed to make up so many hours in the past couple of weeks.