quiet

 gd and i played some the demons told me to make this game while i had breakfast, and then i tried to be a bit productive, gave up, and we took a walk to the mall. i got malled out pretty quickly, but we got everything we needed done and got back just in time to see mr smear walking up the hill with his eyes glued to his phone screen 🤦

anyway, he has no screen privileges until monday so he's just spent the entire rest of the day reading another percy jackson book.

i spent some of the afternoon reading more blindsight, and passing out while reading blindsight, and eventually the window guy arrived. he was here for a while, he helped us with a small window, identified the issues with the big windows, and explained that it's likely us not cleaning the channels properly that's causing them to block and leak into the walls :/

once he and his guy were out, we did the thorough floor clean that we've been overdue for a couple of weeks already... all the while listening to really interesting AI covers:

• soul / tool parabol/parabola
• synthknot
• 70's funk / tool vicarious
• pink floyd / tool pushit
• slipknot as 90's hip hop

then it was a whole lot of dishes with 90s house music in the background, reminiscing about being 16 and spending my life failing school on rollerblades or in dance clubs, and then thinking about hyperviper and his mantra of "the harder the faster the louder the darker the better", and then passing away far too young but way older than we'd ever dreamed any of us would get to.

and then, when i finished and turned off the music, i passed the bathroom and overheard my son singing the lyrics to happiness happening to himself.

so that was cool. but now he's upset and wants me to complain to the people who trained the AI that generated the hip hop slipknot cover image because the fingers are all wrong 🤦