enlarged to-do list

in order to start my morning with a cup of coffee, i had to leave a little late and arrive a little late for a major meeting. i arrived fifteen minutes late, 2.5 hours later the kid and i walked out. and our SC didn't provide more coffee :(

what he did provide was more than enough work to keep me overloaded until i leave my post. i'm not complaining, i'm just whining tired.

as i walked out, a friend of mine called me up to ask if it was possible to influence his girlfriend's army assignment. she doesn't even know what hers is yet, and what the conditions will be, and i got really annoyed with him. i got him to understand that he was being extremely selfish (what if it's an awesome job?), and told him to chill, wait and see. this is one of the few times when i've allowed myself to be irritated by a soldier's green-ness.

i stopped for a chat and a smoke with a cute support girl, then bussed to sort out my rental subsidy. that turned out to be way smoother than i expected, and by the time i have to go back in january, they'll have moved offices to the road next to our new apartment.

i friggin' LOVE our new apartment! ^_^

i got back to base in time for "lunch", and having forgotten my mp3 player on base i had time to learn a new section of "the spirit of the IDF" ;)

in the afternoon, i got the source code for something we need to test, and tomorrow morning i'm going to write a test application and hopefully be able to go off to the induction base to run it. that gives me a perfect excuse to go and speak to the guys in the academic corps; i have a couple of bones to pick with them.

i got a call back about the hotas cougar, and it turns out that not only was the number i was given even more incorrect than the previous one, but that thrustmaster products are now handled by logitech. having looked at the site, it appears that the prices are way over my budget... when i have a chance i'm going to have to find a supplier and sort that shit out anyway :P

late afternoon was alright: private pile was a tad annoying, but the rest of us kept ourselves amused and i had "supper" on base with the kid and a girl from our section who i've had problems with in the past, and has finally chilled with me :)

i came to work, and received a message from our "lead" (you know what? nql from now on.) to complain about one of my ultra-high-importance apps failing. spot and i went through the code with a fine-toothed comb, found it to be all good, and have set it up for logged testing for the next few days.

at least i now have ONE application actually running and doing what it's supposed to. it's a start, i guess. now if only i had something higher than my lowest priority working, i'd be even happier.