so far weekend

 still not sure about the coughing. definitely sure about the not sleeping making me tired, though - i passed out around 3.30am this morning, got up around 7am and yanked the article i posted before i crashed, then finally surfaced around 11am feeling... pretty good.

yesterday was all about finishing things. it began with tales of the neon sea, which i was getting through fine until i hit a known bug in the middle of the final boss level. after half an hour of bashing my head against the wall, then finding out about the bug, i became demoralized and just watched the ending sequence on someone's playthrough video. not the most satisfying end to an otherwise excellent game.

then i finished braid again. what a brilliant, insane game!

mr smear's playdate went much better than last time, with barely any interference from us, and then we got a big grocery shopping done, during which i had an entertaining chat with horseman. i was so tired when we got home that i passed out on the couch for a couple of hours. in the evening - friday night dinner and bedtime notwithstanding, i got deep into getting american mcgee's alice installed and i was so excited that i had to write an article about my experience, which involved tumbling down quite a few rabbit holes...

this morning, after panicking and deleting the article (not without backing it up first) because i was concerned that i'd run into trouble with licensing/piracy, i edited it and republished it and i'm hoping it'll be fine. the article's more about my own relationship with alice and her adventures and spinoffs and reboots than anything else.

mr smear wanted to play subnautica, which is stunning but proved a bit too scary for him even in creative mode, and then we played biped until we both got frustrated with each other trying to cross a particularly difficult bridge.

since then, we've been reading and relaxing and now we're planning on moving out - possibly to the climbing wall.