the siren

today was holocaust memorial day.

never forget.

it's scary seeing that so much of the world has learned nothing. may we be inspired to find ways to bring light to the darkness of the disinformation age. may the memory of the millions who perished be for a blessing.

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sunday:

saturday night was another rough one.

omg it finally happened: mr smear was embarrassed to say goodbye in front of other kids, so we had to walk back a few meters so no one would see.

we've now agreed that a double fist-bump means "a kiss and i love you"

work-wise yesterday was pretty successful, but it was tough because i had to figure out really complicated group queries in postgres and our ORM proved utterly useless.

the evening was nice. the only rough part was continuing to read diary of a wimpy kid to mr smear and having to stop because greg is just so insanely horrible, just like daffy duck. i explained to mr smear that while i won't stop him from reading it (he's read through 14 of those miserable books so far), i very much disapprove and i'm concerned about its influence on him.

today:

i slept a bit better last night. i woke up with what seems like a cold, or really bad allergies, but i don't *feel* sick. the first part of the day went well, getting mr smear to school, productively working from home, picking up mr smear and taking him to his hebrew tutor (gd's foot's really messed up), doing some quick shopping on the way home, and then diving into a really shit afternoon because our tooling's broken and i just couldn't figure it out.

the siren caught gd and i by surprise today, it was hard not to freak out.

now i've done some of the dishes, and i'm about to drag mr smear out for a quick mission to find nutritional yeast. brewer's yeast is okay, but it's really not the same in either nutrition or enjoyable flavor...