omfgomfgomfgomfg yeeeeeeeeaaaaah!!!!!!!!

hot DAMN.

so i got a ride to the base after work, crashed at 6am. it was super cold, so i didn't really sleep a hell of a lot - i would have got inside the sleeping bag, but spot had used it last, and there was a damp patch in the middle with a bullet next to it, and i got to wondering if they were his...

i was woken at 10am. by the mongoose. not by j-girl.

because the guys in the secretariat cancelled his trip to sa. WTF??!?! so i went down to his office, and we spent the next half hour getting organized. found a loophole, and so far it seems that we've managed to get around those creeps.

j-girl arrived, looking gorgeous as usual, and after saying good morning disappeared to do her "form hiking" thing. i spent the day collecting things that cannot be disclosed here yet, working, and crashing whenever there was waiting to be done. which totalled about an hour - not nearly enough.

fortunately my work lead us to discover and fix some rather deep problems with our new server, so i leave knowing that things are better off :)

once j-girl left the base, the release section was on high alert and everyone there was jumpy and nervous. around 3 or 4, i got a call from my contact there saying that everything at the first station had gone superbly, and that j-girl was absolutely thrilled, and the guys working the station were really chuffed with themselves. a relatively short while later, j-girl called, and she was completely awestruck.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

and i am SO proud of myself ^_^ i sent through a special thank you to everyone involved, they all did their jobs perfectly and made j-girl's release a unique and enjoyable one. and i get to take all the credit at the end - i can't stop grinning when i think about it!

j-girl took the bus to our base, and i hopped on when i passed, and we went into tel aviv for coffee / late lunch / early supper. it was really, really nice. and the food was amazing. an enormous hot beef salad.
and j-girl wore the civilian dog-tag the entire time, which really pleased me.

we took a taxi to the bus station, said our goodbyes (which saddened me, at least), and then i made my way back to the base, where spot and the scout were still around.

i've been having a serious and rediculously illogical problem with the work i did for the mongoose, and spot's taken over. i hope he gets the job done, because if he can't, then in my opinion it's just not doable.

i got all my gear sorted out, we all did some taekwondo forms (the scout's are definitely improving, and spot's are a lot better than i expected). i then bussed home, so gosh-darn excited i couldn't help grinning and behaving like a total fool. i ran into a really cute girl from our unit who's just been released, and i'll be meeting up with her at the airport (she's off to rome), so it'll be less boring :)

i got home, am running washing and am halfway through packing, about to take a shower, and then i'm off to the lizard for some hard partying and drinking before the mongoose's ex brings me home to pick up my bags and then takes me to the airport.

infinite w00t!!! cape town, here i come!!