i - am - EXCITED!

work last night was great - i finally got an app to work... it makes me happy to go through old code, and find it not only readable and commented - but unintentionally easily reuseable ^_^

after waking up to a sense of accomplishment, i got home to find my apartment having been entered and abused. not badly, by anyone's standards. but it's enough to know that somebody's been there, and moved things around, and broken a couple of useful things here and there (like a towel hook, for instance)... i called my landlord this morning to complain, and he requested that i kindly relax the sarcasm, and yes, he'll speak to the builders.

WTF? they're working ON THE OTHER BUILDING?! i got snarky, and he gave me some bullshit about them working on both buildings >@
and i'm so bloody paranoid that i had to perform a full-inspection of the apartment when i realized what had happened. and of course i got jumpy at every sound.

anyway, aside from that, today was an awesome day. i overslept, and woke up 10 minutes before the bus was due to arrive. i still managed to make it in time to watch the bus drive off (go me!), and the alternative usually-horribly-cramped bus arrived only mostly full.

we had some interesting work to do this morning, the kid's busying himself with making me proud. our section was treated to a presentation of oracle's newly-acquired-we've-changed-all-the-labels analytic engine (it was siebel's), which turned out to be a lot more interesting than it sounds. the presenter, our oracle POC, is the POC for my alma mater, and we've worked together in the past. in fact, i've complained about her here in the past, but today she was not only friendly and professional, but helpful too. and she's already helped me trace the bastard who left midway through a c# project to go to australia, and left me to pick up the pieces. who's apparently back in israel... i have an opportunity to let him know i'm decidedly unimpressed.

today i got told that when i'm released from service, i won't have a problem getting a job at oracle. i don't think oracle's prepared to pay me the kind of salary i'd demand for wasting my time. they probably wouldn't like my attitude too much, either.

after lunch, the kid and i jumped around sorting things out, and then i was left without much to do. i've started trying to organize myself a replacement... with my SC's permission, i'm going to drive my previous commander nuts (something i have plenty of experience in) until he conjures one up.

the kid and i spent our last half hour on the base eating and discussing how we're going to make my replacement's life the equivalent of boot-camp from full metal jacket. he will learn, and he will learn HARD. we don't have time to fuck this up.

work tonight has been trying. a bug surfaced in a package that's been live for ages, and it took hours to find it. it really sucks when it takes a mind-bendingly specific chain of events to break something that runs under every other condition just fine. the worst thing is, looking at the problematic line after the fact: there aren't any other ways to break it.

and i learned how to access mysql databases from excel. great. and spot wasted ages dealing with pompous bastard irc "gurus". eventually some guy just caved in and helped out. but the process of getting there was rediculous. i friggin' HATE those kids.

good mood's back!

i want it