gimme a war face!

i woke up at 5am this morning to do some laundry, slept badly for another 1.5 hours, then commenced with the day.

the guy in charge of instructing us in the new systems began aggravating me first thing. he's really pushing my buttons.

then i had to deal with getting access to my pc - they've essentially switched everyone's passwords. that took a solid hour. very frustrating.

the morning was pretty sucky, overall. lunch was alright, after lunch was quite good. got some important things moving, and managed to find a gift spot left for us before he got released.

in one of the sections of our system he was responsible for, he coded a block ass-backwards. it didn't add anything bad to the system, it just didn't do much to fix the problem it was written to solve. brilliant, spot. we spent the afternoon learning in-depth about everything connected to that section... stuff we really didn't want to know, but i've solved the problem, and all that's left is to tie up loose ends in the morning before releasing the patch to production. our new TL was horrified when we explained to him that the procedure was so simple, and that we're not planning on doing any serious documentation.

different standards, i guess :P

i had supper with the mongoose, then rushed off to work to deal with a problem on our servers. turned out that somebody installed a different "flavour" of the JRE on the server, and none of my apps worked anymore. that took a good half an hour to figure out, and two seconds to fix.

i spent the rest of the evening finishing a couple of projects. by the end i was left with a major problem in the primary one... we then discovered that it's not because of a bug. it's a problem because there's no documentation, and the function isn't SUPPOSED to work as advertised. so much for "does what it says on the tin".

unfortunately, i was alone with the boss, who took an unhealthy interest in what was going on, at the exact point at which i was forced to rethink everything. he put me under enough pressure with constant questioning that i began fumbling. not cool.

i did eventually figure things out, but i don't think the boss has such a high opinion of my work after having seen me stressed. AAARGH!

so i left work *just* in time to catch the bus, and now i've got even less time to shower and sleep than usual. swak.

at least the plan for tomorrow is good. half a day to finish with this problem code in the army. then to get ready for the wedding, and go through to meet SxS. yogi's getting married tomorrow!! DAMN!!

and then fun stuff until sunday. that'll be much better.