7/5

good day at work yesterday, even though i had lots of meetings (good meetings) and it was a national holiday

had a meeting pair programming and demo-ing a tool i've been building to build other things, which i had been nervous about and dreading out of lack of confidence in the tool and the complexity of the problem it was supposed to solve, and both my meeting partner and i had fun using it and at the end of the meeting said that things were easier and worked better than we had thought they were going to

i didn't shoot up awake an hour before my alarm this morning, just 10 minutes before

i don't have any meetings today

it was supposed to rain every day this week but it's been clear every morning so i've been able to go running every day

my aerobic fitness continues to improve and my body feels quietly powerful again, in a way that it hasn't in a while

the first two episodes of the new season of stranger things, which we watched after dinner last night and were very enjoyable, as past episodes seasons/have been, which i find particularly impressive because i don't tend to enjoy TV shows about children and don't have nostalgia for the kind of movies that are the reference points for the show

the daily challenges in slay the spire, which i have been enjoying as someone who never really played a game that had those before, and also discovering the right-sized chunk of a game to play in a given session so i feel the satisfaction of play but without the horror of realizing that an hour and a half has passed without me noticing (even though that horror speaks to a flow state, which is also a good thing)

mary beard's SPQR, which has been my bedtime reading lately and is quite enjoyable

d has made so much progress with our packing and we still have two weekends and a week left to finish getting ready

we're ordering some kind of delivery for dinner and it's friday