wrecked, but here.

 was a wreck this past week. thoroughly exhausted, highly anxious. overwhelmed by bureaucracy / admin / the infinite number of things that i'm expected to deal with in addition to paid work just to make it through each day.

it doesn't feel like there's much relief.

thursday was a bit better than the previous couple of days, i managed to resolve an issue i'd been wrestling with and spent my afternoon improving test coverage and tidying up my tooling configuration. at least thursday ended on a positive note.

yesterday i went to endless roll to try and buy wheels and bearings for my rollerblades, and i now understand why everyone in the group recommends going literally anywhere else. i left in frustration after twenty or thirty minutes. gd and i were late picking up mr smear from school. when we got home, we played king's quest for a couple of hours and then drove to bat yam for a lovely afternoon on the beach with my coworkers.

a good time was enjoyed by all. mr smear was buried in the sand, he and gd made a kite and he flew it, we had fun in the water in spite of the lifeguards... it was a really great day.

this morning's been pretty good so far, too. mr smear spent some time developing drone intution with fpv freerider, mr smear and i have played some of the lord of the rings card game, which is really cool, and we're now about to give fall guys a chance.

also, mr cat's been making progress on page 25 of the comics and one of the panels has been proving tricky, i'm hoping my latest suggestion is viable.