the wonky thread

it wasn't the worst day of the week, but it was rough. the jump-start and lack of sleep made a neat line throughout the day.

i got mr smear to school at a reasonable time, and he did finish the homework, but not without a bit of a fight because i made the mistake of not disabling brawl stars. when gd went to administer his 10am meds, he said something cryptic about being in trouble and getting kicked out of class, after which his teacher contacted me to explain that he'd hidden his workbooks in someone else's locker so that he wouldn't be able to participate in class.

my brain.

also, he vehemently claims that that's not the case. can't this shit be simple?!

the work day was all over the place. i merged my code, but there was an issue with something unrelated and as a result there was a series of reverting and replaying. that was distracting enough, and i was having real trouble getting a handle on the existing code i need to upgrade, but then a customer got hit by a bug in something i was responsible for and so we went into emergency patch mode. and then, just as i finally started making progress on my sprint task, something in my devcontainer was corrupted and i could no longer perform any git operations.

it was not my day.

i tried to fix it after our all-hands - during which it was announced that our CTO is stepping... sideways?... and the coworker i've been developing a very mixed relationship with is going to be filling in effectively as team lead / head of r&d.

cool.

i needed the walk home. it did me good, just not enough good. the evening was alright, and the family talk with mr smear went alright too. bedtime was pretty smooth. oh! he's getting pretty good at playing the piano (i mean, synthesizer).

i made a point of not going to bed early, and have spent the past couple of hours playing shadowrun and figuring out cdk stuff in my side projects. i think i'm going to be ready to go to bed pretty soon.

hopefully tomorrow will be easier.