blood red siren

standing on my balcony, staring over a beautiful sunset, the skyscrapers tainted blood red for a memorial day, when the siren blares, the sound coming from all directions, a sound heard and a moment held by everyone in israel.

it feels different now that i'm a soldier.

today went quite well. there was a ceremony in the morning, which, aside from terrible singing and a carnival marching tune, was pretty good. we cleaned our office, and i experienced my first code review. it didn't go as well as expected, but it wasn't bad. at least none of the problems were mine :)

our new teammate had a strange dream last night - one that involved a pull-up bar. about 3 hours after he told us about it, we were informed that someone's put up a new pull-up bar on the base. aside from being a weird coincidence, we're quite excited about it - we're almost up to a full excercise regime :P

unfortunately, i could only manage 3 at a time. that's just sad.

there's a cute techie girl who i was flirting with, and she's started flirting back. i'm sure it's because i'm not looking. and every time i see her i go through this "she IS cute. maybe not. no, she is! ehh..." cycle.
maybe i need therapy.

speaking of therapy, the mongoose is succeeding in giving me a complex about my ears. it's not that i've never noticed them being overly-large, it's just that nobody's ever been nasty enough to repeatedly make fun of them. and what absolutely kills me is that i have nothing to say in response.

i'm supposed to be working, but i reckon i'll get around to it later...