marching past mach

the week went by incredibly fast! aside from yesterday, the last two weeks have been flat-out work and i'm thoroughly enjoying it :)

a) my TL couldn't handle the dvd menu for the first firefly disc, so he didn't watch it. EPIC FAIL.
then he couldn't understand why we were laughing at him for telling us.

b) one of the guys in our section catered today in honour of a corps celebration. he prepared all the food himself, and it was absolutely wonderful - including chocolate bananas, and tapioca. i can't recall ever tasting tapioca before, and it was brilliant.

i was certain that it was something consumed in ancient rome, but i just found out that that's because it's the name of a character in asterix.

c) boss mail fail: our SC sent a mail explaining to us that the conditions we get apropos holidays in the army are - to the best of his knowledge - way better than anything we'll get as civilians. the amusing bit is that we're suffering the worst vacation situation there could possibly be, and so i sent a mail around reassuring everyone that life outside is better.

the incredible part? our village idiot sent a follow-up supporting me.

the even more incredible part? the two of us came up with a plan for getting work done more efficiently by cutting out our commanders until final authorization. we found out that quite a few of us have been doing this, apparently - that's very sad.

d) i am familiar with disgustingly hot. what this is is unacceptably gross and difficult.

now i'm taking a beer and a book to the beach.