g-zuzz.

my body and mind are swimming in confusion.

got to the base, worked a bit until my team leader showed up. i walked into his office, shut the door, and told him we needed to talk. we sort of cleared things up, neither of us was entirely satisfied at the end, but since then things have been more relaxed.

we had a meeting with our DBA's, which lasted a long time - but by the end we actually had an idea of what to do. we then went to the induction base, where we sat in a meeting to discuss the current status of our project.

in the middle, someone mentioned a bug i'd COMPLETELY forgotten to fix - and everyone was staring at me as one of them asked what happened with it. that was embarrassing. i said some shit about it being very strange, and difficult to deal with: afterwards my team leader told me that we weren't to touch it anyway.

go figure.

we then went to another meeting, where we learned that the guys responsible for our servers have no clue what they're doing. great.

we had a great lunch on the way back to our base, i worked for an hour or so, then returned to the induction base for physiotherapy.

i learned that my slipped disc is not in my back, it's at the base of my neck. the physio was describing the danger signals i have to look out for, and they're scary. she was most amused when i took off my shirt and she saw my tat :P
she's also the first person to touch it - i figure it's been enough time - and her testing to find the painful areas was the closest thing to a massage that i've had in ages.
i also got an exercise to do... if nothing else i have a much better idea of my problem.

i returned to the base, and returned to a new problem. our system has suddenly started crashing BADLY. why now? thank you murphy. i spent the rest of the afternoon with the DBA's while they sorted it out, then had to go back to my office at 7pm to work.

fortunately i managed to solve one of our other problems, set yet another problem solution in motion (i hope it worked), and finally left around 21.15. i left broken.

spent a long time bussing back - it SUCKS that my usual bus line ends at 20.00. and finally got home just before 23.00. i tried to find a bug in our university system, but failed, and am now speaking to my mom online. i'll be going to bed immediately afterwards - i have to be up at 5.45 to go to a circumcision... then back to base to continue working... then to work...

saw this on slashdot, it's fantastic: specifically for you, moonflake!