looming threats

 well, we've been on alert since yesterday, worrying about whether iran's going to attack us outright. tomorrow's the first day of the passover school holidays, and we were all excited about mr smear going to his first week-long mma camp but the first two days have now been pushed to next week and we're hoping that things will go back to "normal" by tuesday...

... gd's been freaking out about the potential escalation, it's been a really hard six months for her.

thanks, nystire, for sending me the fallout intros earlier. at least it has great memories attached :P

...

yesterday:

mr smear did indeed finish his homework before school! i dropped him off, came back home and tried to work. it was a very, very frustrating couple of hours i put in during the day, very unproductive, and i'll be complaining to my teammates tomorrow and try to figure out a way to make our testing make a little more sense.

otherwise, i did very little productive yesterday. i was exhausted. my chest was still full of green gunk.

aside from picking up mr smear from school and doing a very quick shopping, and then another one later, and a lot of dishes... we watched groundhog day, and a bit of testament: the story of moses, and mr smear and i played rubber bandits together which was a lot of fun.

i was particularly proud of mr smear joining in (to a degree) when i made kiddush ^_^

today:

concerned about potential rocket attacks, we spent most of the beautiful day indoors. i rested some more - unintentionally passing out while watching more testament, and the first episode of star trek: the next generation, but the biggest thing today was purchasing valheim for mr smear and encouraging/helping him whenever he got stuck. it's early access, and it's not easy to get into, but he's having an absolute blast and i'm so pleased to see him demonstrating grit and accepting the idea that each play isn't to win, but to learn how to win.

i managed to get him to come out for a walk in the afternoon - gd wasn't feeling safe, physically or emotionally, and we stopped for an excellent ice-cream and had really interesting conversations along the way.

i'm particularly proud of myself for leveraging the new-game enthusiasm to get him to shower before dinner :)

i'm still reading the prisoner of azkaban at bedtime, and we discussed why the book has so much more in it than the movie. i told him about american splendor, but then realized that using h.p. lovecraft's writing as an example would be even better. he's very familiar with c is for cthulu, after all, it's still one of our favourite books. i explained how just seeing cthulu would drive a person mad, and the impossible dimensionality of r'lyeh, and he went to bed very excited about his plans to draw funny cthulu images in the morning.

i'm so proud.

now that we know he'll be home for the next two days, i've set up the windows machine so he can play valheim without me (i'm very relieved that i was able to get into his steam account, it had steam guard configured on an old phone), and gd and i are about to take a look at the fallout series on amazon prime.

please don't suck.