*STRETCHES* MUCH better.

still annoyed by the whole army experience... i've now got the same complaints and whining going on that every soldier does. amazing how my perspective's changed in such a short while.

i struggled out of bed this morning, but made it to the base on time. i got given menial work today... and i was grateful for it.

SB's coming back in just over a week, and NOW i'm falling for a really cute girl in the prefab next to us. not that it detracts from how i feel about SB, and they do have the same name - but i have this thing in my head that considering how uncertain SB and i are about our being together, that maybe i should be finding myself a buffer.

lunch was AWESOME. our team minus our team leader picked up the mongoose and went off base for a humus lunch. which was EXCELLENT. i surprised myself by finishing the meal, which normally never happens, and we spent about half an hour in hysterics over all sorts of amusing stories.

one of which, i feel MUST be told, was from the mongoose.
he's been taking sleeping pills, really strong ones. so he takes one before bed, and is reading comics to sleep, when a good friend of his sister, a really sexy one (and soon-to-be legal), went into his room and starting flirting with him.

he tried really hard to keep awake, but the pill kicked in around the point where they were discussing her tattoo, which is in a rather personal place, and she was about to show him.

that's all he remembers before everything went black, and when he woke up in the morning she was gone.

we returned to our office, then i went off to the physio. i love busses again, 'cause i've got an amazing book to read... i'm only about halfway through and i've been reading for a week.

my new physiotherapist is an ex-south african, and talking to him was entertaining. not only that, but he definitely knows the right way to hurt me, and by the time he began with electrotherapy i was mashed. pulp-like.

half an hour dozing with electricity buzzing through my tattoo - the only bit that worried me was potentially damaging it. oh - and every now and again it'd get painful.

oh well.

i learned that the most likely cause of my back and neck problems is computer usage, and the advice given was to get up and move around for a couple of minutes for every twenty minutes spent in front of the monitor. not easy to do, but definitely sounds about right.

i was on my way back to base when our systems crashed, so i visited the induction base and got to see the sights from the other side. it was amusing. and it also wasted time.

i got back to base minutes before the end of the day. as i was entering the main gate, my team leader called me to scream at me about visiting our "customers" without clearing it with him first. i told him he didn't have to shout, and we argued over whether or not he'd shouted until i got to his office... and then continued the argument in person.

i went back to my office, checked mail, and called him up angrily when i saw that he'd been misinformed, and had been angry with me when i really was in the clear (one of our "customers" told him i'd promised something that i'd explicitly said was up in the air).

we then had an argument over whether or not i'd shouted at him.

the dog and i went to his gran's place, where we watched tv and had supper, and then i bussed home.

the shower i had was desperately needed, and i'm definitely less smelly. even though the weather's relaxed, it's still blazingly hot by SA standards.

i finally got around to a piece of code that's been worrying me, and ended up with a frightfully elegant solution. i've been very focused on keeping the system clean, and i keep surprising myself when i modify it successfully. we've been developing so long i've forgotten some of the mechanisms, and i used some of the earlier ones to sweep everything up nicely... without getting anything under the carpet.

i've been online and catching up for about an hour now - gonna finish up in a bit and go to bed. no rollerblading for me, but the time was well spent anyway.