curveballs

monday:

we were all at home on monday, mr smear was sick and i worked / kept an eye on him while gd went for another distastrous dental experience.

i generally had a hard time concentrating.

in the evening mr smear's "play therapist" came over, sending me to work in the bedroom which turned into very little work but with a good initial conversation with sailor about countering psyops.

today:

another day with mr smear not going to school, gd took him to the doctor who sent him for chest x-rays, but it was so hard to organize the x-ray that gd just went back to her and picked up antibiotics instead. hopefully they'll do the trick.

mr smear's really been maturing rapidly lately. we started off the day with a talk about the dangers of the internet which he clearly was following, and in addition to his homework he helped gd quite a lot around the house and with dinner. i'm very proud and quite relieved.

we received a frontend contractor at work today, nice guy. halfway through the afternoon i realized that i was fighting a losing battle with the nivo charts, and i asked if he had any suggestions. he suggested echarts, and i'll be damned if i wasn't completely done with a much more polished result by the end of the day.

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halfway through dinner my mom called me to inform me that my cousin just passed away, extremely unexpectedly. we're still processing.

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after putting mr smear to bed, i felt compelled to take care of a niggling detail on my current task... and in doing so, discovered a rather insidious bug. it took a couple of hours to fully uncover and fix, and then another hour of finding and resolving other issues, and now it's approaching 1am and i'm pretty much done. and the chamomile / antihystamines are starting to kick in.