oi've defini'ely 'ad worse sundays

last night was shower, lost in transration, bed. ("have a nice fright")

i woke up around 6.45am, had a cup of coffee and a smoke while standing barefoot on the grass outside, watching a phenomenal sunrise. then hurriedly got ready, said goodbyes, and got a ride through to the bus station in afula.

i bumped into a guy from our base, who not only taught me about a little-known and way more comfortable bus route to tel aviv, but also gave me two hours of entertaining discussion. and i was worried about the batteries of my mp3 player. we met up with spot at the central train station, and made our way to the base.

today was actually quite nice. aside from spending lots of time with friends at the cafeteria, i spent a lot of time with sbelle. she was having a rough day, so i took it upon myself to cheer her up. ended up cheering us both up rather a lot. the last conversation included swapping phone numbers. i'm not getting too hopeful, but i wouldn't complain if something happened there.

yogi called me, and told me a few interesting things. some guy turned NIS1M into NIS100M in a week of day-trading, and the banks don't want to let him continue. and he was using a slight modification of an extremely well-known (well-known to be crap) theory. good for him! and yogi and SxS got bust playing poker online together, essentially cheating. that's funny shit.

after home-time, our team got down to some serious unreal tournament. i had a crazy sniping run, where i drove the two of them crazy by taking them both out over and over from an open position - at one point the two of them were standing next to each other, scanning the area and screaming at me "where the hell ARE you?!"... two seconds before i removed both their heads. in the next round the teams were switched, and the kid and i put together some awesome teamwork to rip spot and his bots apart. satisfying.

on our way to the bus station, we stopped in an underpass and pulled out our harmonicas for a jam session. spot taught me a much better blues riff, and the two of us got all the passers-by smiling. we tried to get the kid to sing, but in his words, he got stage-fright.

the kid's been making us really proud lately. he's totally relaxed and begun making fun of himself the same way we do. it's great to have three clowns around, and i won't be alone with my silliness when spot leaves... which is all too soon. it's not fair! we started serving at the same time!

spot and i bussed into tel aviv, and i'm now at mmf's hoping he'll rock up online - i promised him i'd be here around 8pm local time, and he's nowhere to be seen. swak. i have to go home tonight, tomorrow we have a branch trip to jerusalem, and i need clean clothing.

i think that was my day. i'm happy with how it went.

[late addition] flexible body-armour