slow and steady

yom kippur itself went a bit differently than i expected... in a good way. it started with me "tuning in" to the online service, but i really wasn't feeling it and found myself consistently distracted. at some point i just thought "sod it" and grabbed a cup of coffee and settled in to the other traditional israeli way of spending yom kippur, on the couch with my family playing games and watching movies. for a little bit, only, because at some point i got it in my head to break out a 1500-piece puzzle and we're still going strong*.

* okay, we haven't touched it today because my legs and buttocks have been too sore from two days of up-and-down building of the puzzle on the floor.

in the evening went joined the rest of the neighbourhood hanging around outside the chabad service waiting for the final shofar, but as the first blast started a child started screaming next to us and then an ambulance went past with its siren on so all we really heard was an anticlimactic toot.

whatever.

it was a nice day. i really needed the downtime.

yesterday was a mostly positive day at work - although i worked from home again because i'm still not completely over this annoying cold - i completed the work and the boss and i revisited our ci/cd authentication procedures together, and aside from a minor deployment issue my main project for this year is pretty much ready to go!

today, legs and buttocks notwithstanding (nor notwithsitting, but that's beside the point), gd and i went on a failed curtain mission but enjoyed a nice coffee in a cool place in south tel aviv, and i enjoyed a laffa on the way to the school, and then picked up mr smear and spent the rest of the afternoon watching wile e. coyote and spirited away, and trying to give disney+ another chance.

we've just had some downtime reading dog man in hebrew, and i'm looking forward to a relaxed shabbat.