entering overtime (again)

 it took me a while to get to bed last night, and i think i slept alright. my wakeup, however, was startling.

mr smear got up early, brushed his teeth, and made himself breakfast.

i literally had to bite my lip to keep from saying "who are you and what have you done with my son?", gd woke up in even worse shape than before and he really made our morning so much easier.

i knew that rewarding him with screen time was the right thing to do, and he appreciated it, but i also know that that's a slippery slope...

... meanwhile, he installed something all by himself and it was a panicky few minutes making sure it wasn't malware :/

i walked him to school, then returned home, and barely had time for anything before gd and i joined our scheduled parental guidance session.

considering how wild the previous week had been, we had a lot to talk about. some of the conversation was tough, but i feel like we both got a lot out of it.

i then immediately left to pick mr smear up from school and take him to the doctor. i managed to get some work done while waiting, mainly because the doctor was running about half an hour late. she took one look at his eye and told me we need to carry on the treatment... i don't think we really needed an appointment for that.

i dropped him off at home, had a quick breakfast, then hopped on a bus to work. most of the bus ride was spent breathing into my arm and staying as far away as possible from the smelly homeless guy who was arguing with himself.

the work day was... not bad, i guess. but i've got urgent stuff to catch up on tonight, and it's 11pm already :(

homework time wasn't perfect, but we got through it. dinner was nice. watching most of the first episode of slow horses while trying to help gd with her back was fantastic. listening to these two videos of eric weinstein while doing the dishes was.. comforting. people are understanding.

* eric weinstein sees something in hamas’s strategy no one else sees

* you’re in a war (and you don’t even know it

and now that i've typed this all out, back to wrestling with cdktf.