gorgeous weekend

walked through to meet with spot at our regular, erm, coffee spot. we sat discussing good vs. evil, and how to save the world, and then made our way (only doubling back once because spot forgot his credit card :D) through to the russian bar.

it was a fun evening, of which we spent the last few hours with a couple of cute girls playing pool. around 7am, i took a phone number before we all got thrown out. spot and i walked up the beach, sat with some iced-coffee for a while, and then went to his grandma's. she was delighted to see me, as always :P

the two of us got caught up reading about 419 eaters - some of their scams are really worth listening to all the details.

i showered, then crashed for an hour. i woke up for a proper argentinian breakfast - solid piece of meat (although i still can't believe that you're supposed to eat the fat. i gave up trying near the end.) with potatoes and salad. shortly afterwards, we made our way through to the beach.

it took a long walk through an extremely talented beach to find the organizer (the guy from the office who got the tickets) and his girl, and i went straight for the water (it was a painfully hot and humid day). after getting an opportunity to see how bad spot is with beach bats, we went to meet some friends of his. after basic introductions, i passed out in an almost identical position to this old photo.

i woke up about half an hour to an hour later, dehydrated and having had too much sun. still did just fine in a round of frisbee, and then organized iced-coffee and sat down for some amusing conversations. as it began getting dark, we moved to mike's place, where we had the full breakfast (damn. that breakfast ROCKS.), and guinness, and met some more people.

sammy picked me and spot up, and we went through to the lincoln to play some pool. we eventually left around 1.30am, after playing fun but awful pool (i just sucked the whole gorram weekend). we ran into the two girls from the bar on the way out - i'm left wondering... they live close to my place, and seem keen - too good to be true...

sammy dropped me off at home, where i showered all the sand off, and then crashed HARD. my alarm must've been going off continuously for an hour this morning. i was 45 minutes late on base, after the hardest wake-up i can recall. it must be said that my recall doesn't extend very far at the moment. the later bus rides are definitely more pleasant than the early ones.

it was a pleasant day in the army. it began with a scare - apparently our system had done something REALLY wrong - but after a panicked hour we figured out that everything was just dandy. i love our client section.

aside from the above, i didn't really get too much work done until the afternoon, and the food wasn't too bad. and there's a new group of cute young girls (fresh meat for the grinder? too accurate, considering what army food does to girls' bums) to ogle.

the air force transfer? looking good. apparently, that interview i was distraught over two weeks ago didn't go as badly as i'd thought. *bounces happily*

fifteen minutes before i was due to leave, our client section called again. turned out we were having serious issues with a mechanism that we've only recently managed to get working (after many years of work-arounds and people having to babysit, instead of the bastards just FIXING it).
it took half an hour, with some assistance, to discover that sometimes, for no apparent reason, windows services cease to function correctly, and report that lack of operation as "doing just great - don't worry about me!". we got it working again, but i arrived at the office half an hour late.

the boss walked in two minutes after me, and handed me my pay-check. "don't tell me that's not a good way to say hi," he smiled. i *do* like working here. and coupled with the news about the transfer: i'm a happy camper.

i've actually done some work tonight. and soon spot and i are off to the lizard, for a farewell party for the as-of-tonight ex-owner / boss. he's off to study in mit, and there goes having a good bar right close by.

aside from that - happy, happy! joy, joy!