the fear

 well, that was a mistake. mr smear's been really scared since friday's ghostbusters experiment. it's a bit of a bummer.

on friday evening i discovered - to my shame - that i was pretty badly sunburned.

yesterday:

the weather's been apocalyptic since yesterday. quite dusty, hot and humid, windy and even a bit rainy. it's weird. mr smear and i joined cm and his kids at the beach, gd unfortunately had to turn back because she's been really struggling with pain the last few weeks. the beach time itself was great - the kids get along well - but as we were beginning to get ready to pack up a heavy wind suddenly struck, throwing chairs and shoving us around.

it was over about ten minutes later.

i got more sunburned, this time with sunscreen. that i now suspect has expired.

we came home, gd and i had a stupid incident that had to do with leftovers and debilitating chronic pain. so that sucked. the rest of the day was mostly spent watching the incredibles (both of them), playing games, reading and resting.

today:

today began with a stressful mission, after dropping mr smear off at school i went to the clinic to see if i could get our doctor to give gd a prescription for the meds she's been desperate for for the past couple of weeks. i managed to get it sorted, to my relief and surprise, and it looks like it's helping already.

otherwise, my second-hand 2013 macbook is feeling like it's on its last legs so i made a move back to my windows machine.the computer itself is great, and windows 11 is actually feeling pretty solid so far, but i'll be damned if i didn't manage to forget how much i loathe using this **** keyboard. voice access is okay, but it's not that good that i can switch to it...

i wonder where my external keyboard is. i guess i'll look for it in the morning.

i was a bit slow today, but i did get my main task taken care of.

then i went to pick up mr smear from school.

fortunately, the councilor caught him before he delivered his "hate letter" to his little nemesis. it was crude and rude, and if he had managed to get it into the poor kid's hands i'm pretty confident we'd have been invited to a little chat with the other parents... we've had a couple of talks with him and we're praying he's getting the message...

i don't know why i struggled with tekken 7 before, i think it's because i accidentally entered story mode. the actual game itself is clean and clear and well put together. gd and i are making good progress with the firefly series. i got too excited by the apple tv preview app, which feels great and does everything except actually play the media :/