it's all "a joke"

how did we get to wednesday??

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i just found out about the temporary ceasefire, i'm conflicted, to be honest. i don't trust our government to know what's right in the best of times, least of all now when nobody knows what's right. i'm confident this is going to cost us more than we anticipate, but hopeful that we might at least get some of our hostages back...

what's going on in south africa is a joke. a really poor, unfunny joke, like the comedian would have enjoyed. there's scary anti-semitism, and i'm afraid for my family and community. at the same time, it's hard not to appreciate the irony of a government that's composed entirely of a bunch of criminals who are responsible for immense pain, suffering and death thinking that they're in a position to judge anyone else about anything. and they're wrong*. i mean, holy shit.

* not about netanyahu needing to be arrested, just not what they want him arrested for.

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sunday/monday:

the boss is back, which is a bit of a relief. he finally sent an email to the company informing everyone that i'm out. one of my coworkers left me an incredible recommendation on linkedin.

after days and days of sisyphusian struggle to get the project i'm working on to a point where i could make the actual change, and days and days of building up anxiety because of how complicated the change itself was going to be to implement, i finally made the change. and it was almost no change - two lines of code and one of those was just removing an import. it seems too good to be true.

the other grind of a problem - that was the previous week's morbid mystery - still isn't resolved. it looks like it should be working, but i have no evidence and trying to gather such evidence is proving to be a massive ballache.

yesterday:

yesterday was shit. gd still sick, me feeling sick, another round of dealing with mold and winter hasn't even begun yet.

and a horrible fight in the afternoon; i'm still feeling sore about some of the things that were said.

at least the airconditioner in the living room worked. the other ones worked immediately, but the living room one played "hard to get" and it was only after about ten minutes, while i was recording a video to send to the technician, that it finally kicked in and did its job.

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as far as on-calls go, my last one (!!!) so far hasn't been the worst. now to pray that typing that out doesn't call the attention of the evil eye...