the first of three

 i honestly don't know what i did yesterday, although some of it was dedicated to getting started with the google maps API and some of it wasted on trying to push something to a personal repository from my work computer (it's complicated by the fact that we use a special SSH agent for work).

in the late afternoon (relatively, for winter time) mr smear and i went out for a walk. he wasn't too into it (as usual) until we agreed to get some vegan hamburgers, but the state of the burger king toilets put me off completely so we walked around until rainbow opened (5pm, just as it got dark). the walkabout until then was nice, and we had some cool moments.

dinner itself was excellent, we both ate too much and enjoyed it immensely. then we picked up a meal for gd to go, and walked home, and i was really sleepy. i ended up crashing on the couch and going to bed early again.

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i slept alright last night, although at one point i was restless and found myself on a thread about "unmissable" games, which led to me purchasing three new games this morning on steam's winter sale: planescape: torment, journey, and what remains of editch finch.

i'm very excited to try them.

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the problem money finally arrived in our south african bank account, so we paid off the credit card debt and i initiated the closing of the account!! now the only outstanding debt is to my mom, it's a huge amount but we're finally able to start chipping away at it.

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gd and mr smear accompanied me to the barber shop. i thought my usual guy would cut my hair - the guy whose haircuts gd doesn't like, with the ex-saffer mom so we have fun conversations. instead, it was someone who appears to be new - he's not mentioned on their website - and he was awkward, and he misunderstood me when i said i needed the cut to look professional which made things more awkward.

anyway, at the end of the day his cut satisfied gd, so we're good.

we continued down the road so that gd could start the process of getting her vape device fixed, and then further down to the mall. aside from using their restrooms, we were pretty much in-and-out and on our way home again. we stopped at home for about half an hour, then all left to take mr smear to his therapy session.

gd and i had coffee while we waited, and although i had plans for the half hour or so i ended up failing to troubleshoot why my computer couldn't connect to my mobile hotspot.

we picked up mr smear, took the light rail to azrieli, and mr smear and i had lunch* while gd shopped. and then we came home. the past hour or two has been all about mr smear getting through his holiday homework (most of it's done), and taking care of random chores.

* mostly vegan - the only way for their vegan shuwarma to be delicious is in their challah, which unfortunately has some egg in it :/