not broke!!

i deposited my salary this morning - if my account is happy, *i'm* happy ^_^

at lunchtime i ran into a couple of guys i did my basic training with - turns out quite a lot of our group didn't follow through with the army's plan to have us sign on 3 extra years. nice ;)

that funky stuff from yesterday got even better, now we're in the middle of redesigning a particularly crap (and ancient) piece of code. and we're liking it.

work today was excellent - i finished with one of the cooler apps, after recoding it for java 1.4.2. i'm as comfortable using vi as i am notepad, and that impresses me no end.

i discovered a few really upsetting problems with the primary app, which i've hopefully sorted out. needs more testing tomorrow - i'm only ever ready to test once everybody's gone home...

i usually leave the office around 22.30, but my contract states until 23.00. so i suppose i don't really have much excuse to complain about my boss catching me on my way out and keeping me there another half an hour. i must admit, it wasn't a bad half-hour: i got him to understand the problems our lead programmer is dealing with, and i gave him a set of possible solutions which i'll go over with the lead tomorrow.

i got myself a beer on the way home. entered the stairwell, and realized that tonight there're no lights anywhere. i was praying right up until the moment i flipped my lightswitch - and to my relief, i didn't have to follow that action with loud swearing.

the finer things in life. almost bedtime!