slow, steady, small victories

 it's midnight, i'm starting to fall apart. another long day, but better. i continued last night's cdk struggle into the morning, eventually succeeding in spite of having been led astray by a well-intended but misguided comment on a forum post.

it was too hot to rollerblade to work - well, to put the rollerblades on and take them off, and to carry extra shoes. i'm beginning to consider getting a bike.

mr smear's previous homeroom teacher is really dumb. there was an "incident" this morning because she wouldn't let mr smear go and get his meds from gd who was waiting at the gate. FFS.

the work day was extra long, but it had a redeeming feature; my boss, who's been visibly stressed about how long my latest tickets have been taking me, jumped in to the rescue after my coworker - who'd written the original code - and i had been sitting, stumped by what was happening vs what should have been happening. not only did he end up just as confused as we were - and upset about it - but there was a wonderful opportunity to cut the tension (he was upset about a line of code, having forgotten that he'd just written it) and i jumped on it :D

i think we're good now.

i came home with barely enough time to help mr smear with some of his geometry homework, and then it was time for the weekly "webinar". some of the talks were riveting, but i was distracted a lot so i'm going to have to watch the recording. it also went on way later than anticipated, and mr smear didn't have a smooth bedtime.

*sigh*

i'm off to bed now. we'll see what tomorrow brings.