almost better

gd's taking all the meds, but it's hard to say if her situation's improving. we hope it is. as sad as it is how scared mr smear's been, it's really comforting how he's been so supportive and caring.

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after dropping mr smear off at school this morning, i continued on to the pharmacy and then tried to get our details sorted out in the medical aid systems. everything seemed fine on their end, and they asked me to bring them proof. so this afternoon, when i took mr smear to his hygienist appointment, i checked with them and discovered that everything's just fine, but because mr smear's first name is unusual people just assume he has a double-barreled family name and skip ahead to his middle names instead :P

i was bored at work today, so while i made some boy-scout changes to the proof-of-concept i've put together i published an article on the topic :P

and i had a "demo" with a sales agent for an API we might use, all the poor guy wanted was to understand our use-case and i wasn't prepared to tell him anything.

other than that, i contacted a woman at the municipality about mr smear's school situation. after a back-and-forth she agreed to speak to me early next week, so that seems positive.

we finished watching my neighbor totoro at dinner, and i was pleased that mr smear - in spite of his repeated assertions that it's not his favorite miyazaki movie - agreed that it's a great movie in its own right. i was thinking about it a lot today, i really think my favorite thing about it is that it's not so much the story, or the magic, but rather how real the characters and settings feel. it's absolutely wonderful stuff and the story is just icing on the cake.

i read some more of the magic pudding to mr smear at bedtime. with everything that's been going on this week i've been able to spend some real quality time with him, and most of it has been us having fun together. i'm extremely grateful.