werd

 the workshop this morning was kinda alright, but also kinda sucked at the same time. we were in the very fancy AWS offices - it's been three and a half years since i was last in those, and walking in was a strange sensation - and both wifi networks weren't functional and the room we were in had terrible reception so our mobile tethering didn't work either.

added to that, the stuff we worked through yesterday in preparation had been fully customized to the point where our experience didn't help us, and the guys who ran the workshop only finished with the customization last night / this morning and it was somewhat buggy.

at least the last hour was interesting for the attendees, those of whom hadn't walked out at least. 

the vegan options at breakfast were okay, but by lunchtime i was really hungry and there was nothing but a couple of slices of chocolate banana bread.

*sigh*

the rest of the afternoon was smoother, and quite constructive. then i picked up my new power adaptor for my windows machine, which turned out to be the wrong adapter, picked up a couple of grocery items and came home for dinner.

i was planning on going rollerblading, but by the time mr smear was in bed i just didn't feel like it any more. i've spent a good chunk of the evening (a couple of hours) trying to set up windows -> ps4 streaming via twitch, which was a lot of work for some unimpressive results. then i spent an hour or two testing and improving a couple of my repositories (in particular the simple-recursive-checksum package i published this week), and i think i'm just about ready for bed.