This morning, Hamer woke up quite early. After asking Siri to stop her alarm, she ran over to the sofa where I was sleeping and curled up next to me for a while, mumbling sleepily, “I can’t get up.” Looking at her tired expression, I thought about how she hadn’t slept well last night. Before bed, she kept saying she “couldn’t fall asleep,” but as soon as she switched to our bed, she fell asleep almost instantly—probably exhausted from all the climbing and playing yesterday.
The morning felt long and filled with small, tedious tasks. I spent a good chunk of time updating code dependencies. Last Friday, before leaving work, I encountered an issue with the .NET environment that made compiling impossible, and I still hadn’t fully resolved it today. I need to set aside time to sort out these fundamental problems; leaving them unresolved is really dragging down productivity. While working on device management for the G feature, I initially planned a major overhaul to streamline the handling of device statuses. However, one issue after another kept cropping up. By 2 p.m., I still hadn’t made much progress, which left me feeling a bit frustrated.
For lunch, I went out and got a sandwich. As I ate, I reflected: maybe I should take things one step at a time. First, the current logic isn’t fully sorted out; second, making a big change at this stage feels a bit risky. So, I shifted my focus to handling device removal. Although the progress was limited, it gave me a small sense of stability.
I headed home a little earlier than usual in the evening and found Hamer lying on the floor doing her homework. After she read out a list of words from her teacher, we went out together to pick up Xiaoyan. After dinner, Hamer continued working on her assignments. I stayed with her and helped guide her through the remaining tasks. By the time we were done, I felt like my day was complete and wasn’t motivated to do much else. I idly scrolled through my phone, watched a bit of TV, washed the dinner dishes, and replaced the filter in the water purifier. After wrapping up these small chores, I was pretty tired myself and headed to bed early for some rest.
