oh captain, my captain

too bloody hot. yes, it's a heat wave, and yes, it's SUPPOSED to be hot. but the humidity - OH THE HUMIDITY!

i did get a ride to the base this morning: a guy i know saw me at the bus stop, and decided i was worthy of a comfy seat, aircon, and decent music.

aside from that, this morning drove me nuts.

a) the ars at the armoury: i saw one of my teammates sitting there, so i went to join her. she told me they'd been waiting for an hour to relinquish their weapons. another girl tried talking to the asshole, and he started shouting at her.

i called the bull - and woke him up (he was guard commander, poor sod. i can't do right by him). we called our TL, and he told me to go and check with the security officer. i walked into his office, and did so.
"i've already released them."
"then why are they still sitting there?"
"you don't believe me? here." he dials - then screams: "didn't i tell you to release the guards?!"

thank you, speakerphone. i heard the idiot mumble "yeah," and then put the phone down. by the time i'd returned, he was slowly letting them go. prick put my back up again.

b) the kid and i went to get coffee. on the way back to the office, we saw the base's medic (yep. only one.) being helped to carry a really cute girl who kept fainting on them. i guess it's the heat, we had one of those last year, too. there were already quite a few people there, so we figured we wouldn't be much help*. i tried flagging down a car as it drove past to take her to the clinic - the driver was the sexy captain from aeons ago, thought i was saying hi, waved back and carried on.

hmmph.

i didn't recognize the next car's driver, but he thought the same thing. waved back, carried on. that was frustrating.

* in retrospect, that was not an intelligent assumption. we're probably far stronger than the kids there, and it's always better to muscle in to help out the damsel in distress. i spent the rest of the morning beating myself up about it.

we spent as much of the day indoors with the air-conditioning as possible. not taking too long to finish my work, i spent most of the morning, and afternoon, reading and doing pull-ups. pink floyd in the background. very american beauty.i did a lot of pull-ups... all proper ones (all the way down, all the way up), and i'm feeling good about the fact that i'm not really feeling it ^_^

nystire's brother was on base, much amusement in the recounting of good-ol' sa stories.
*sigh*

we saw my tallest a few times today - it's incredibly easy to make him run away: simply shouting "my tallest!" still gets him to change direction mid-step and walk faster and with his head-down. but everyone can see we're calling to him, because we're pointing and waving at the same time!
his girlfriend was on base today - she's in our client section, i asked them loudly and impolitely if they could please stop discussing our work in bed. hopefully the shock that registered on their faces will translate to less of this underhanded business going on.

the sexy captain made another appearance later on in the day, came to say hi while i was talking to someone else. all i got was a kiss on the cheek - but the respect that crept into the guy's voice was touching :P
there's a tradition in the israeli army of putting the major's rank on your beret if you sleep with an officer during mandatory service... to calm him down i had to show him that mine's clear of insignia :(

i had a long chat with my TL over "supper", all about the afore-not-so-much-mentioned air force transfer, and it's all very positive. he's as supportive as he's unhappy about it. the rest of the conversation involved the new, and generally very pretty course girls.

hah! it's vapor-ized! (phantom gives up on their console)
waiting for the outcome now that spacex and rocketplane kistler have won the prize...
and "the robots are coming" just looked interesting