anuerysms anonymous

today has been filled with brain-bogglers - and i've been strangely excited (and exceedingly restless) for most of it. manic? possibly. bouncy? definitely!

i'm guessing a good part of it is the excitement for the vacation coming up. another part could be that i've been informed of two jobs that should be good for when i return - one of them for the recruitment firm that called me up earlier, bewildered by my lack of preference for languages / platforms.

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after grilling me for specifics regarding my previous two jobs, the woman on the phone got to my experience from the first half of my army service.

"i see here you have experience building HR systems?"
"ummm... yes?"
"ah. so how do you feel about building one for us?"

nice :)

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i spoke to the bank this morning, and sorted out the details for my mum. she told me she'd send me a copy of her instructions - when i finally received them, there were a couple of glaring issues. and the bank was closed already. i hate dealing with the bank.

fortunately they opened fifteen minutes later (phew!) and i explained to the woman who received the instructions to hold on. i then spent half an hour playing broken telephone* until everything was finally tidied up, and only then could i relax and breath again - for a few long minutes i was certain that the cash would be sent the wrong way :S

* sometimes literally: their menu system has the magical ability to loop, requiring multiple redials :(

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i woke up at stupid o'clock this morning again because my leg was hurting, only this time i managed to find a useful stretch. it hurts like hell, but it's quite effective.

i'm totally pleased with my new bookshelf / tv-stand acquisition! it may not be pretty (i'll spray it eventually), but it's already uncluttered quite a bit *and* provides me excellent incentive to purchase a flat-screen tv when i have the cash :)

as soon as i'd hung up the laundry (the problem with july on wheels: sweaty clothing needs to be washed fairly quickly) i went to work, remarking to the boss on arrival that i feel like i've become intimately familiar with this summer... i did a couple of hours' work, then went for coffee with sammy.

always a pleasure, and he's provided me with some invaluable travel information :) i'm always amused at how much of the wheel of time series i recall without strain; it doesn't matter that i haven't read any of it in years nor that i'm bitter about jordan's demise. as i said - i'm more disappointed with him than i am with frank herbert. at least ol' frank didn't sell out for four books.

i've spent the afternoon hitting my head against another of flex's brick walls: there're plenty of pages assisting people with the error i'm getting, but none dealing with *my* problem: hitting the error without doing anything wrong :S

[for anyone who feels like being helpful - i'm definitely using the defined variable. heck, i even let flex builder provide it for me when i press '.'. this is not a case of an incorrectly defined class member, this is a case of a class being compiled without all of its defined members. yes, i've cleaned the cache. yes, i've rebuilt the project (numerous times) and clean-rebuilt it.

this is driving me demented.]