stranger in a strange inbox

i spent most of the day sitting outside and chatting. that thing that's still got me all jumpy-uppy-and-downy: turns out an important email got sent to the wrong person... because that person and the intended recipient both have the exact same alias. stupid system admins.

so i got that sorted out, and had to make a few important phone calls this evening. which snowballed into lots of work to be done on the weekend (8#) [my mouth is sealed and i must scream]

i would have less trouble finding a girl on base (ok, not my ideal find, but it's the best i can think of doing at the moment) if the kids on base didn't all think that i'm gay. apparently i'm not enough of an asshole. <string of expletives deleted here>

on the way to work, i had a 15 minute conversation with a russian girl. both of us speaking in broken hebrew. neither of us has a clue what the other was trying to say. most of the time we were laughing... and had no idea why.

anyway, work has been crazy tonight. turns out that the finally finished project lacks unanticipated functionality. i'm not thinking about the fact the i sit near a window on the 7th floor of the building.

and we had a *huge* fuck-up at work: the lead managed to piss off our provider company. completely. all by himself.
things got ugly, and they threatened to withdraw their service - the emails that have been going back and forth are simply rediculous.

turns out it was the straw that broke the camel's back... they'd been offended before - because we have a client whose actual name (we have a copy of his passport to prove it) sounds like "clean these russians" - and the russians there thought we were poking fun at them.

anyway, i gotta run - tomorrow's inspection. it's almost weekend!!!