siesta!

so i left my apartment more or less on time this morning. i got caught on the way out with the information that they need to do some more shit in my apartment. hmmm... dodgerrific. making my stance clear waylaid me a little, and so i watched my bus drive off just before i got to the stop.

i eventually got to base around 8.45, slightly late. first priority: deal with all our systems going down. happy sunday! turned out that this time it was due to a power failure. once that was sorted out, i went to the cafeteria and chilled for a long-ish while.

and bought myself a really fun-looking hebrew children's book. the pictures are really pretty ^_^

by the time i got back, it was pretty much time to go with the team for lunch. we went to a restaurant in herzelia pituach that wasn't bad, as such... i've been to better. the enormous hamburger and the chili con carne was good, though - i was completely stuffed by the end of the meal.

got back to base, spot was already there (after he'd made me stress in order to sort him out permission to get through the gate). we spent the next hour or more just walking slowly around the base, greeting people and sorting out welfare and travel arrangements and so on.

it turns out that i can leave the country for a maximum of 14 days. INCLUDING the two days i leave and return. fuckers. so my holiday's down to 13 days.

anyway, i got back to my office with about 45 minutes to finish the code i've been sitting on for about a week now. at 17.29 i signed off with everything complete and one bug (not related to my work, it appears) to check in the morning. good timing!

i came to work, tested my mailing code (it runs ever-so-nicely on linux :D), discovered some more applications they need done (and double-time, too), and have just come back from a quick bite to eat. also in the pipeline is some c++ code that a guy from the base wants help with. priorities, priorities!