a weird one

 still a bit gross today, seems a little less though. i began the day with coffee, washing dishes and then a visit to the clinic. the stuff i thought would be complicated was easy, the stuff i thought would be easy was complicated. and then there was muffled yelling from the pharmacy, and somebody hit the alarm, and the receptionists all filed out to go help - apparently the alarm gets hit when patients get violent, but i can't imagine those poor women doing much more than just bearing witness / yelling at the offender...

work was a bit weird. i found a workaround to our ci/cd problem - it turns out mocha now supports parallel runs, but doesn't guarantee root hooks will work - but it's difficult to be confident that the results of my refactor are safe enough to merge.

i then spent a good chunk of my afternoon figuring out how to build a python lambda layer that includes a compiled binary dependency. once i got it, and i'd done it in an easily repeatable way, i was able to make good progress on the ticket i was working on and actually managed to score a feeling of victory.

i was too late to pick up groceries on the way home because it's tisha b'av, one of our saddest days and particularly poignant considering this week's passing of the first dark laws.

i came home, relaxed a bit, enjoyed a good dinner while rewatching here we are: notes for living on planet earth, and was very pleased to have thought of bribing mr smear with a handful of skittles to eat all his zucchini and green beans. he's pretty good with a lot of greens, but those two he doesn't dig and it felt like a win.

i've spent the evening reading (including making more progress with gina kolata's flu: the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it - i don't know how many months i've been reading it already in fits and bursts, but it really is good), and playing steamworld heist and doing random things.

it's late, i've got a big day tomorrow. i can't believe tomorrow's thursday already.