back to green

last night i was hit by a sudden burst of inspiration: i have an original c&c disk (gdi), and i have dosbox. that took me WAY too long. but it works! yeah!

i went out for a smoke just before going to bed: somebody parked their car on our bench. as in, the bum of the car "sitting" on it. bastard!
and impressive.

today was a seriously painful day. it began badly when my alarm failed to sound off... it was off, but the icon for "on" was displayed. it appears my phone is now begging to be replaced :(

and here i thought i'd treated it rather well, and given it the respect it deserves.

the kid and i arrived a little late, and got straight back to work. not enough coffee in that story as far as i'm concerned. i wrote a quick testing application for the induction base, and then hopped a bus to get there.

i figured i'd help out ru55's SO by paying the academic corps offices a visit... it's been a long, long time since i last had to deal with an officer with the disease they call sagemet: it's when an officer has recently finished the officer's course, and believes that he (she, in this case) needs to keep distance with lowly soldiers, and generally be a bastard. people like me won't have that disease if they go through the course, because they're bastards anyway.

anyway, i pissed her off right from the start: i didn't salute, i didn't ask if she was busy (hell, i was already talking to her), i offered her a hand to shake to introduce myself (what was i thinking?? "you're not a friend of mine" was her response), i sat down without being invited to (*gasp*)... and then i essentially asked her to do her job.

go me, great tact. she let me have it, and made me feel like a complete idiot (and i deserved it, dammit, i'd forgotten what the induction base people are like), and i'm hoping that our chat doesn't hurt ru55's SO's efforts :(

anyway, she did put me in touch with the people i needed to speak to - but i didn't quite get service with a smile.

cow.

anyway, our client section treated me well. they were only too happy to see me: i sorted things out, assisted them in training our new contact there (he's alright; bonus!), and got testing done. total failure, but it's a start. flashbacks from the morning's encounter followed me around the entire day, which kinda brought me down. i'm only now beginning to perk up a little.

and i ate in their mess hall - those lucky, lucky bastards! the food there is relatively decent! the place is clean! you're allowed seconds!

i returned back to our base for a couple of hours, ran through some more testing with the kid, and we ate in our mess hall. bleargh. but at least i've eaten, in ten minutes or so i have to fast for 12 hours prior to blood tests in the morning.