damn good guarding - damn good day

yesterday morning sucked rather a lot, especially as my two soldiers spent the day giving me grief. including the dog, coming excessively late.
bastard.

but everything turned smashing the second i went off to guard. i love guard duty - no reason to think, no point in worrying about the real world. all good.

i sat with the mongoose when he got first shift, and spent 20 minutes talking to the gorgeous, sweet girl who guarded with him. on my way to bed i ran into some friends, and ended up getting merely an hour's sleep before we were woken for an "event". and then it was back to bed.

my shift was cool - i sat with a religious guy and discussed heritage and appropriate jewish behaviour for three hours. and then spent the last hour fighting over the settlements.
whatever.

the flag-raising ceremony was cool, sleeping until lunch was even cooler. and i slept so well. spent an hour over lunch with the dog and some friends, and then went back to bed until it was time to return weapons and flak jackets.

they managed to waste our time, and i was already late for a meeting at my helpdesk job. the girl in the quarter-master's store managed to waste even more time when i returned my sleeping bag. of course. because i was in a hurry.

i got to the meeting halfway through, but it was good that i made it at all. i cleared my mail, spent some time talking to sammy (who's leaving for holland to show the 'rents his wife's belly), and spoke to my mom for a while.

i find it unbelievable that our education systems are so inept. kids really need to understand that being educated is a good thing, and that they can take charge of their education by reading and researching on their own. unfortunately, school systems tend to force the children to rely on them for their knowledge, which is a big load of crap.

very, very, very boring crap.

i went through to herzeliya, visited her grandparents, and went with them to her place, where we sat and talked for a bit, before i got a ride to the bus. got home, picked up some clothes, and arrived at the dog's gran's place, for an awesome shower.

no definite plans for tonight, but definitely going to try to do something.