T-2

 it's tuesday night, and i've just woken up after passing out during a re-watch (for me) of neal brennan's 3 mics (gd watched the whole thing and enjoyed it) due to what was clearly a sugar-low after consuming too much candy after dinner. after a busy evening after a busy afternoon during which i almost passed out next to one of my coworkers while trying to help him debug something weird.

this evening was awesome, and a bit bitter-sweet because i'm almost sure it's going to be the last mid-week wall climbing for a while. mr smear and i had a deal and we both stuck to it, he had a great time and did some cool things and i didn't set any parameters. he's doing great :)

i had a sync with his new teacher over the phone this evening - hopefully i'll learn how to pronounce her name soon.

we got excellent news this afternoon! the public therapist has a slot opening up, which is going to save us an enormous amount of money (not that we don't feel it's well spent), so perhaps we can get back to reducing our debt sometime in the near future. that would be cool.

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after a good HR interview yesterday morning, it looks like we're proceeding, although still quite slowly. ironically, i'm feeling confident and settled in my current job for the first time in over a year. i'm working on something that's less of an uphill battle against my coworkers (and part of the core business, as opposed to the ci/cd infrastructure), and the work itself is a lot more interesting.

i had a long chat with an ex-coworker yesterday evening, it was nice to catch up and reassuring to know i have a good reference in hand.

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gd's legs are hurting. this sucks.

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mr smear's generally doing really well with mma, and he seems to be making friends there too. this is good. i'm really feeling like this summer holiday has been good for him, i hope his return to school in two days' time is positive.