long and tiring

 t'was a long day. work was a bit weird, we were lucky that the aws outage only affected one of our sites, and only coincidentally. fortunately, one of our new devops was able to fix it manually, in a particularly impressive way.

i went hunting for a wall map, ended up buying a strip of batteries for mr smear's memory game instead. and then i sat down with a coworker for a slow, heavy lunch at a hummusia.

i came home early hoping for some rest, but a message from mr smear's teacher had me worried. in spite of that, we had some good time together before dinner, and we all enjoyed finishing twins. it's aged well.

after dinner, we had a very serious talk about the message; we don't know if mr smear is telling the truth or not, but if he is then he's doing well and we're proud of him. if he isn't, he's going to have to deal with the consequences.

we can only do so much.

but it was encouraging that the new arrangement for his math homework seems to be off to a good start...

bedtime was going fine right until he got into bed, and one of his eyes (his "bad" eye) started leaking. we're praying it's nothing interesting.

the rest of the evening's been nice. and included the expected amount of too much shadowrun: hong kong.

oh, mr smear expressed interest in playing DnD. i'm going to message cm and see if he's up for an introduction.