where am i?

like a stoned dog, i slobbered through the day. from the retarded wake-up (hah! used the word correctly!), and the glassy-eyed bus ride, to glaring back at my monitor uselessly, to slowly wading through the waking dream that is the intense heat and humidity of these horrid days.

i went to the post-office this morning to pay my electricity bill. i had to wait 20 minutes to get to the teller, only to be told that it wasn't the actual bill, it just *looks* exactly like it. with a note in the corner that says that the amount is so insignificant, that it'll be added to the next one.
FOR THAT YOU SEND ME A REPLICA OF A BILL??

i was dazed for lunch, but managed to get "food" down. i almost wrote that i made it through lunch without throwing anything heavy at the guy sitting opposite me talking non-stop crap, but i didn't actually have the energy to go through with something that intense. by heavy, i mean heavy like a fork or a knife.

i had problems after lunch... a system that we use went down, and we discovered that the guys who "take care" of our servers had accidentally revoked all our access to them. half an hour of shouting at the monkey before essentially giving up and doing things the hard way.

nystire has all but left our base. good luck! and congratulations!

speaking of which, the bull called me into a meeting with some of the big boys. our systems are about to take a 90ᵒ turn, and we have four months in which to get it sorted out. that's a lot of work, and we've officially begun. we've been waiting for this point for months now, and i'm really amped now that we've reached it ^_^

the air force transfer is now out in the open.
the bull used it to pressure the guys in the meeting to keep the time-line to under four months, and he used it effectively. i felt myself go bright red when i realized what he was saying, and quite a few impressed eyebrows were raised in my direction
(:$ + ^_^)

at this point, totalwaste goes off for a cigarette. as he's going through his phonebook removing irrelevant numbers, he releases an obnoxiously loud fart, whose echo reverberates throughout the stairwell. a well-dressed ethiopian woman steps through the door at the most comically effective time, and there's a moment of silence when our eyes meet.
she cracks up laughing, then rushes off down the stairs to the ladies bathroom.

so i went straight to my pc, got some things going, and then came to work work (not a typo).

i have just had one of the weirdest experiences. a few years back (20/04/2003 - my first ever journal entry), SxS and i were in eilat, and i was introduced to a cute friend of his. a while ago, she added me to her messenger list.
the first conversation we had was a few days ago, where i reminded her that we'd met before. talking to her now - i've just discovered that my name was added to her list when she joined the company i've just left... that's just the weirdest reunion i've experienced.

reminds me of sunday, running into a druze guy i did basics with at the entrance to my original base. he's a lieutenant now - and been in the army all of one year. we had a good laugh, he can't let his charges know that he's been in the army less than them :D

the is-it-a-planet story isn't over
biotech driving computing? it's all biology to me
american soldiers with toys: and i thought our army was bad