am i repeating myself too much?

wow. "wow" doesn't really cover the extremity of my good mood this morning. i woke up slowly, took my time, and even remembered to write my mommy an email for mother's day.

my way to the base involved lots of head-banging (on the bus too - shameful!) with a big smile on my face. my morning ROCKED... literally, hard-rocked ;)

i abused some of my morning privilege to chill with the mongoose and others in his section, including printing some poetry for my wall (moonflake, tai1, and myrdeminggala's, all stolen from moonflake's poetry corner), and things were great.

then i had to spend the rest of the day (aside from lunch) fighting the urge to rip apart everything i could see. please don't tell me you can't see the resemblance:

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larry ellison is demonspawn, sent to earth to destroy our civilization as we know it, by torturing software developers until they submit to his will: either leaving the discipline altogether, or becoming subjugated oracle devotees who are convinced that they love what they're doing.

oracle's development tools are the bane of my existence. imagine you're working in an environment, where you need to move some objects from one block to another. in any other visual environment, moving or cutting and pasting may be a bit tricky, but it's definitely possible.

using "oracle developer", i can't copy because i can only have one instance of each of the items i'm referring to. so i do what any rational person does - i cut. then i paste. only no pasting occurs. my items have disappeared. i'm familiar with the undo button, but it's greyed out. my only option is to revert to my last save. ignoring the fact that i hadn't done that yet, i'm still stuck with the same issue once i've sorted that out.

when my violent outbursts began to bother the people in my immediate environment (i promise this isn't the only thing that doesn't work properly), they tried to tell me that i was doing something wrong. i obligingly let them try to do it "their" way. not one person managed to do anything. and i stopped being the only person making a noise.

"maybe it's your pc? i've never had that happen to me before!"
because you've never tried it before. somehow. the guy who said that opened the original file on his pc, and the same thing happened.

eventually i had to redefine each item individually - because it's somebody else's code, that meant figuring it all out first. that wasted more time. then i wasted over an hour on something because the guy in charge of operations forgot to show me something important.

i didn't notice the time until he did - by which stage i was late for work. so i rushed to the bus, more head-banging and feeling better for not having to deal with satan's masterful plan to reduce our tech-workforce to blubbering crazy homeless people, and got to work in time for a serious meeting.

the meeting lasted about an hour and a half, and i'm still not quite sure that we agreed on anything. i'm very confused.

fortunately, i discovered that i did something right (by accident, i promise!), and the work i was assigned to do today i completed on thursday. yippee!!