odin-appropriate

 today's wodan's day, and considering the war/death/sacrificed eyeball thing i find it a perfect day to have blasted through the final boss i've been struggling with in inscryption.

SPOILER: i just got through the final battle of act i with the most ridiculously overpowered deck, and am finally in act ii! holy fuck, this is one of the most satisfying achievements ever and i know that the game's only just warming up.

what a freaking rush. 

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i went to bed early-ish last night, abandoning gd in the living room after she'd had a fight with what she believes was a mosquito (she had surprisingly nasty reactions, apparently this is normal for her).

this morning started off with a visit from the air conditioner repair man, who checked out all the installations and determined that the stinky one needed a professional clean. i helped, it took a while, and while he thinks it's all good now we're still smelling the faint remnants of the ammonia smell that was worrying us a couple of days ago.

after he left, that was when i remembered to inform the landlords... in the evening they got back to me and only agreed to pay half, because they believe it's our fault for not cleaning the air conditioners. which we didn't realize we needed to do 🤦‍♂️

next up: our daily meeting, with our CTO informing all present that i'm leaving at the end of the month. there were raised eyebrows, followed by a couple of awkward moments, followed by a couple of touching messages.

i know it doesn't make sense to say goodbye just yet, so it doesn't actually mean anything, but i couldn't help noting who didn't send messages :P

around lunchtime, i booked a car and gd and mr smear joined me on a mission to drop off bags of old clothes for a donation drive. there was a free hour on the app, and we managed to drop off the clothing (the woman in charge was absolutely blown away by gd's eyelid tattoos), pick up nice bread and a bagel, draw cash for the cleaner, and return the car in time.

that onion bagel was delicious.

i spent the afternoon working uncomfortably while the cleaner cleaned, mr smear had another zoom session with his therapist, and i struggled both with the work and with distractions. at the end of the day, i made progress but i don't feel great about it.

in the late afternoon (which is feeling like evening now that everyone's clocks are wrong again) i went to get imaging done for my hips/pelvis/nether regions. it was quick, a little weird (the poses for them to get clear shots) and i walked away being grateful that at this stage the radiation to my boy parts probably won't make any difference to the world.

the evening was a mixed bag, mostly positive. mr smear's been pretty cool so far since last week's freak-out, even if he's testing boundaries like it's nobody's business... as usual...

it's getting late, i'm still excited by my earlier achievement with inscryption, and now i'm going to try to learn something blockchainy before going to bed.