like a rash in an intimate area...

my day was bitterly abused by my continuing lack of health and neverending hassles with our systems.

on my way out the door for a smoke i noticed that everyone except the kid and i had gathered around a pc for "educational purposes". i asked my usual question: "is this a private party, or can anyone join?", and the response was "private". so i went out, and two minutes later got a phone call to join them. when i went back up it was explained that they simply hadn't understood the question. i suffered an hour of crap that i didn't understand, and spent most of it bouncing a balloon around and into everyone. sucked anyway.

although the new section is a vast improvement over the previous one. the mongoose tried to teach me to draw a superhero today. i just sat there in awe, and he couldn't understand what was so impressive. "but it's just circles and lines!"

right.

i can see where he's coming from though - i have that same faith that what i do when programming is so simple that any ape with a keyboard can hack it. i find my leet skillz with puns way more arresting. like cardiac arrest. heart-stopping. i should probably quit it now before i get found and firebombed.

i went off around 3.15 to a meeting with my tech-support boss, which was fun. we had a good chat - first time i've properly talked to him since i joined the army, i think - and he wants me to take on a bit more responsibility. there's also the possibility of me joining our in-house development team for small tasks, which would be great.

supper on base really got my goat. it's an automatic response, not even vaguely intellectual, to get riled by stupid little kids with higher rank and not enough hair on their faces to shave. i managed to block them from pushing into the line without them realizing it, and then took shit from a girl behind me because she was convinced that i intended to push in as well. i deliberately sat down at her table to have it out with her, but it really was all very silly and a waste of time.

we had an impromptu (rhymes with tutu) meeting with our new TL; i pretended to understand him and i assume everything will be fine. good thing for me that our previous TL explained to him this morning that i don't read emails in hebrew... that's the nicest thing he's done for me since i met him :)

and i suppose my pull-up status has improved, but i'm still not 100% and i don't want to push myself too much. it's hard enough just walking up the stairs.

great stuff:

thank you, mr. bush!
leave them pigs alone
my nads may actually be good for something!