cluttered mind?

i spoke to my tallest last night - i was most amused when i received an sms from him just before arriving home, asking if i was sleeping. made me laugh - he doesn't have a clue what i'm up to... reminds me of my current TL, but that's for a bit later.

we actually had a pleasant chat - i'd forgotten that in spite of our differences, we didn't get along so badly in the past. and i can't say i didn't appreciate the approval when i informed him of my plans for the morning.

the morning came, and i made my way to the induction base. my ordeal lasted about two hours, and i walked out feeling violated. i discovered, not to my complete surprise, that once again our client section had lied to us, and *had* made changes before the bug surfaced. i sat there as they reset what they'd done, and tested again, and made a couple of trips to find relevant material for me to pore over.

they laughed when i left all the heavy stuff; the only helpful-looking article was about 10 sheets of paper :P

i arrived back to my base, and the kid and i spent an hour going through the code. he found something weird, eventually: we then discovered that the updates from the client side hadn't been compiled properly.

that's what happens when nobody bothers to read the instructions.

so i called up the fool responsible, and gave him step-by-step instructions (probably quite offensive in their simplicity - either that, or that's what he needed), and informed him that if compilation fixed the problem, he's the person we're blaming for this monumental screw-up and waste of our time, energy and frustration.

we went off for lunch, and came back to discover that all our problems were solved. schmucks.

during the lunch period, i got an opportunity to sit a while with the new cute discipline officer. baby-steps... ;)
i suppose i'd sleep with her just because of her job (and that she's not unattractive). that's kinda sad.

the bull finally caught me for a personal interview. in the summary for the interview, he included a statement about the air force transfer... and sent it off with my TL as a cc. my TL has had no idea that any of that stuff had been going on. not - even - a clue.

i was a bit embarrassed... but i had to ask if not having included him was alright. turned out to be fine, but i was definitely worried there for a minute. i'm wondering what his response will be when he reads the mail :S

speaking of his responses - he walked in on three of us playing a networked game of yaki (or taki, or uno, or whatever)... he wasn't too impressed. fortunately the others disconnected from my server when they heard him come in, so by the time he'd asked me to close it, it had already closed itself :P

work has been a bit annoying... the ball's in the provider's court for every project at the moment. not a single thing that's not a screw-up from their side. i was reading news with my feet on the chair, when the CEO walked in. flashback from the army; i was actually quite flustered.

and then yogi started complaining about something the lead is responsible for, that was no longer relevant. i didn't know that, so we had a few upset people (including the lead) until it was all sorted out. and that annoying sod is back, and driving me bloody crazy.

thank you, spot:
hello all you tiny insignificant network users!
muahahahaha
...
thank you!
- your friendly neighborhood netadmin

and thank you for asking me before sending it to everyone in the company.

i just spoke to the lead - i have two new projects. yay. ENOUGH! FUN!