• Packed up and cleaned my flat. Roadtripped to the Greek border.. and back again. Unpacked.
• Had a little jaunt with Albanian police thanks to walking past the buses with my backpack. Came to nothing.
• Not a very productive week; a bit of nodejs.
• Attended most of the DID WG remote face-to-face.
• Swam in the sea.. Still a heatwave.
• Did paddleboard yoga.
• Enjoyed a storm at last.
• Made more doughnuts.
• A bit of hacking on sloph apps.
• Watched Shanghai Fortress and Big Fish.. and Stargate.

Storm!! Thunder, lightning, rain! Big waves! Actual breeze! Long overdue after the last stifling, still, sweltering couple of weeks. Opening balcony doors all the way to welcome it in. I feel better already.

Still in Albania.

All the border guards were very nice. The Albanian side let us go double check with the Greeks if they'd let us across before they stamped us out which was good of them. The Greeks said they'd love to let us through but Angela Merkel says they can't. They were just letting Greek citizens over at the moment, not even EU. It's very frustrating that with an EU passport I could fly to Athens from Albania, but not cross the land border. I'm not sure what to do next. Going to take a break from thinking about it for a few days.

I don't want to jinx it but ~ there's a rumour ~ that they're letting people across the border anyway today so apparently we're gonna try?!

It's not looking good. Albania dropped from the EU's official 'safe' list, and a minister saying Kakavia land border is not ready due to incomplete disinfectant tunnels..

On Friday the Greek Deputy Minister of Civil Defense said the Kakavia land border with Albania will not open. Today a "spokesperson for the Greek government" said the Kakavia land border with Albania is on list of border crossings that will open. I still feel like it's sort of a complete 50-50 chance if I'll be leaving Albania this week. Makes it hard to adequately buy groceries. And plan my work schedule. And.. maintain my sanity.

I did waste like 3 hours this morning researching alternatives. Or maybe it won't be wasted! Who knows at this point.

• An up and down week of not knowing whether or not the Greek border will open for Albania.
• Getting frustrated at nodejs.
• Tinkered a bit with sloph posting apps.
• Crocheted a lot. I can do a chainless foundation row now! Easily? I couldn't do this before. Did it with a half double crochet.
• Realised I can just make doughnuts. Made them twice. So good. Can't believe I never did this before.
• Watched/rewatched Man From Earth, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Moneyball... Stargate.
• Swam in the sea. It got really really hot.
• ...
• i dunno, i lose track. my brain is fried.