a slow sunday

 i don't know what happened to me, i'm guessing it's something i ate (not food poisoning... let's call it "triggering"), but *boy* am i glad i worked from home today. 

it was a long workday that was really just a continuation of the previous couple of workdays, primarily filled with lots of frustration with an urgent piece of work. and making slow and steady progress on something else on the side, but the frustration was the main theme. then, finally, after consulting with a coworker, i learned that the issue was a known one and had nothing to do with me.

so... a lot of wasted hours on this thing, then, that could've gone out last week when we desperately needed it.

anyway, metaphorically: after getting tails every single time for days on end, i finally hit a whole bunch of heads in a row this evening and was able to square away the central part of the current project before bedtime.

this was good.

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in other news, gd was hilariously spaced out for most of today. in addition to a few funny encounters, this also led to her sending me to the school too early to pick up mr smear, which would have upset me more had it not been for the fact that i walked in on to his teacher struggling to discuss something important with him. not only was it an excellent opportunity to hear about an incident itself from a reliable witness, but i managed to establish a baseline with him and i *think* he understood me. it remains to be seen whether he can act accordingly, to be fair it's a hard ask for a seven year old to put up with the class mouth-breather / bully whose behavior annoys the crap out of him.

in spite of how disappointing jim jefferies turned out to be, he's said quite a few wise things, and his "hate doesn't beat hate" advice is something we're trying to teach our son. it's really good advice.