ooh, goody!

mostly, at least ;) i ate too much chocolate during the afternoon, and coupled with other milk products during the day it didn't do me too much good.

but i won't lie and say that it wasn't worth it ^_^

i overslept this morning, but fortunately not by too much - i made it to the base more or less on time (read: half an hour late, but nobody noticed). the mongoose took my photo for the visa application, and the kid and i spent the morning working on annoying bugs. tradition. suffice it to say that our interactions with the lice responsible for our servers was far from becoming of civilized people.

but then, we're not really so civilized, are we? nobody is. the meaning of the word has been drowned out by the clamors of backward barbarians who know that they're at the peak of whatever "sociable" ladders they've erected for themselves.

our team went off to visit one of ours who's been sick / suffering for a week, so we took her out to a great little iraqi restaurant (jewish people who fled iraq, for those wondering), and we stuffed ourselves on fabulous food. i went off afterwards to find a non-obtrusive spot to smoke in, and was called back - i didn't realize that i'm not the only one in the team who smokes! neat!

i spent the afternoon trying to print that id photo, and then trying to fax it to kibbutz cousin (who's my travel agent). eventually we got that right, but it was a ridiculously complicated procedure!

brother bear (one of the guys in our team) and i finally fixed that problem from wednesday, and i left *just* in time to catch the bus to work.

...

i had that dreaded meeting with the boss. i explained to him the situation with the code, and he called in the lead - who confirmed what i'd said and actually took it a step further... so i'm not alone. we have a solid plan of action set up for the rest of the week.
AND i informed him of my holiday requirements...

...

which didn't phase him a bit. so i - am - HAPPY. i've got my contract to read over, and am spending this evening working on connecting to a db server that's apparently down. so i'm actually spending this evening theoretically connecting to said database :P

i just met the mongoose outside for a smoke-break (he's taking a course that's across the road)... that was fun. i've also just found out that my first boss (the one who owes me about NIS 3000 and hasn't been in touch in a while) has been overseas all this time, so i suppose it's kind of forgivable. but i did warn him that i only work for money now, so that's the last project he'll have me for.

the kid and i were wondering how we ever survived before learning about using the ctrl button with the arrow keys to skip words. that's one of the first things i learned in the army, probably the only thing of any import that i'll be taking with me!

i'm gonna go pour black slosh into my lung-troughs. and then i'll do what i get paid for.