oh dear

on my way out, i realized that i'd forgotten something damn important in my calculations. there was a charlie brown AAAAAARGH that came out of that. i routinely made my way home, pausing to get myself a snack, and to watch the top ten goals of the world cup. wp called the no. 1, we saw that one live ;) [argentina vs. mexico, for anyone who actually cares]

as i got to my building, slipknot - duality hit me at full volume, so i stayed outside a bit to silently scream along, before hitting the shower and then the hay.

my day today was alright. i spent the morning with the sexiest girl on the base (sgob - it's not like i haven't mentioned her before), did a bit of work, then went for a haircut. i popped in to a birthday celebration for the other south african, then ate lunch in the mess hall - not great lunch, but we got humus so we covered everything in it and it turned out alright.

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news about the soldiers being kidnapped. it's great to know that this kind of thing keeps happening, and that people around the world continue to listen to the drivel that the palestinians put out. it's our fault - we have no propaganda machine. pretty pathetic, actually. if we were americans, damascus would be leveled by now. that really is what we should be doing. kick 'em in the nads repeatedly until they leave us alone. and for all those who cry "but you're so brutal! and you treat them badly!" - the saddest thing in the whole world is providing aid to a people who screw themselves over (or get screwed over by their own, it's the same thing), and they still make out that we're the bad guys, while rabidly attacking our ankles.
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it's been a couple of months now; i finally got sick of waiting for a key to my office, and took the liberty of duplicating for everyone. i saw spuzz on the way, so i hopped on a bus to my primary base, said hi to a couple of people, did some shopping (which i needed for tomorrow morning, and promptly forgot to take with me from my office), and got a call from my commander informing me that our base had been locked down (due to the security situation), and that i needed to get back there pronto. i was standing in the slowest check-out queue i've ever been in. i hate israel's idea of quality of service.

neither the kid nor i have ANY clue how to help our client section with a request of theirs... i spent about an hour working on it, and came out with the client calling me up and saying "please stop, this isn't helping". all i could do was laugh.

i did some chilling about the base; singing weird songs with people and performing "scientific" experiments on plastic cups.

i spent some time shining my boots today - they're bloody BRIGHT!

i came to work, discovered that my computer's still not ready, walked with spot to pick up an ex of his, ate supper, walked back, and have been working ever since... on fixing this problem. now i'm riddled with bugs because i had to move code from one module to another, and there're logic bombs all over the place.

granted, that's entirely my fault. i did the move all at once, tweaking everything and expecting it to be perfect. there should be a law preventing me from doing that :P

now i'm off to the lizard, to work on their site, have a couple of drinks, and then go home to get ready for inspection tomorrow.