highs and lows

 today was a bit rough, although having a beer and watching growing living rat neurons to play... DOOM? with mr smear have clearly helped.

we began the day with coffee and co-op gaming, but mr smear started griefing me and i had to walk away. so not a great start. in addition to that, our curtain rail came crashing down because it was installed by an incompetent jerk, so now we've got that to deal with :(

finally, just before we left, mr smear had a fight with his new lego spiderman figure (i'm still not clear on what happened) and decided he's *done* with lego. fortunately, we managed to talk him down from his ridiculousness but it was still a bad vibe to leave on :/

then we went to the optometrist, but their information on google maps wasn't up to date and we walked around encountering smelly mall people for far too long before we found what we were looking for: the optometrist upstairs :P

then getting mr smear to pick out a pair of glasses was a whole story, and we realized that we'd left the prescription at home.

ugh.

then we did a grocery shopping in the mall store that we don't particularly like.

then we caught a bus home.

and the whole way there and back, and a little bit of time at home afterwards too, was me trying to sort out our moovit apps because they've become really pushy about paying for their basic service and the google play store won't let you choose which account to install an app on / make payments with.

eventually i figured out that the only way to get it right is to remove accounts, uninstall/reinstall, and hope for the best...

mr smear really wanted to try playing the original DOOM: "that's not scary!"
he watched me play for a few minutes, tried a bit himself, and by the time i got to the end of the second level he was out :P