back to work

well... in a few minutes, at least. two significant things happened on friday, the first being that after a whole lot of confusing research, i discovered that while the mongoose was advising me to buy an xbox rather than a playstation, he has a playstation. and that's what he was offering to lend us. for a much, much longer period of time than i initially understood.

i now get the logic behind the xbox recommendation - that it's far better value for money when you have kids - but we're a family that's definitely good with playstations, and the VR gear they're loaned with. even if repurchasing and configuring was an expensive chore.

the second was dinner, we were invited to mr smear's friend's home and we had a really lovely time!

yesterday was mostly a good shabbat. we started off watching the third tobey maguire spider-man movie (because venom, in spite of it being a crap movie the tom hardy venom movies are definitely age-inappropriate), but it soon became apparent that mr smear needed the back story in spite of his protests to the contrary so we watched the first one. 2002! it came out in 2002! and it was also a bit crap, but for a seven year old it was just fine.

then i rolled over to the mongoose's again to pick up a power cable, and spent a good chunk of the afternoon sorting out our upgraded entertainment system. in the evening, we took a walk downtown, with mr smear responding to the old riddle of two guards with an interesting take of his own (not quite the solution, but if allowed two questions he would have asked "do either of you tell lies?") and following up with a crazy tale that i'm right now trying to convince him to draw for us because it was seriously convoluted and he did go on and on about it.

we enjoyed a delicious special-treat veggie-sushi dinner followed by vegan frozen yoghurt.

after getting mr smear into bed, i played an exploratory couple of rounds of fortnite for the first time ever and it was fun. i did okay in my second attempt, although i ultimately ended up with a bit of motion sickness, but as fun as it is i'm very confident it's not age-appropriate and we'll be sticking with the ratings stickers on this one. gd and i also ran through a couple of levels of rayman: legends to break in the machine :D

it was a good weekend.