positive start

 well, aside from some tummy troubles in the evening, i'm beginning to suspect that my body's reacting negatively to our office snacks or something... an incident of flatulence while waiting at the train was so embarrassing that i went straight through to the other side, a sort of "through the looking glass" of shame.

it turns out the constant hum on the platform isn't loud enough to hide a fart.

anyway, work today was difficult but i left the office with a solid success; and that was on top of convincing my boss to write up a design doc for a decision that we've all lost hours debating.

mr smear is absolutely loving his kindle, and it's a joy to see him so excited about reading!

i've spent the evening doing two things: transferring media to the old macbook with ubuntu, which is a far better server than my windows machine, and reading lots of news. i'm pleased to see that the "reasonableness" fiasco has come to an end, and while i'm deeply concerned about a bunch of things that are happening i feel like overall we're moving in a good direction.

and if i'm wrong, fuck it. it's this or certain doom, not much choice there.