100% complete - ALL SYSTEMS GO

hmmph: coffee this morning, and the kid and i still made the bus on time :)

said goodbye to piles, as he was extracted to a base in the middle of nowhere. a good base... he's 18 years old and it's a base for next-year's recruits to "experience the army". meaning 17 year-old girls in absolute awe of "real" soldiers.

*choke*

in the morning, my previous boss called me - looks like i have some work to do. it'll probably take me a few hours on the weekend, it's a bit of a lus. but at least i can finally get the NIS 3000 for finishing; it's only taken 2 years.

there really wasn't too much serious work done today. we finally finished our testing, and it seems that wednesday night we'll have to stay late and ship our new version for the clients' testing. oh, and if we manage it all in time, then the kid and i can go to the small party being thrown in honour of our TL being promoted to lieutenant.

during the ceremony, i managed to scream out the most inappropriate thing in front of a huge crowd that included the head of our unit and a couple of branch commanders... "what a cannon!". amusing results, but i knew it was stupid and i felt myself shining bright red immediately after :$

straight afterwards i had a meeting with our branch commander - it was an extremely productive meeting. i've been informed that i can pretty much leave piles to take over *CHOKE*, and "wind down my business" and say goodbye.
right.
so basically, i'll be getting him to do all my work, and sit there as backup. sounds good!

nystire: i've been assured that the tiny problem of our previously shared commander will be taken care of, so i'm not worried.

i got to work to face an immediate problem that required me to get on the phone to our provider. spot now understands the depth of my plight - i know the provider's phone number by heart. that is sad.

so i spoke to the idiot who doesn't speak english, and later on got to speak to yet another one. apparently the second one's less of an idiot. regardless, they've screwed up big time and it's beginning to get me down :/

on the other hand, i've finally completed the project i've been working on, and built a php interface for it. it works great on windows - really great, but it just dies in linux. so i don't know javascript for all-and-bleeding-sundry. sue me.

i left my system testing a supposed fix of theirs, and bussed home. i'm totally psyched about my newly-gained army status, i'm on my way out of the unit and everything's good. now all i've got to do is plan my weekend right, 'cause SxS hulle are planning theirs in jerusalem... i wanna go! i have to work! i *have* to finish unpacking and tidying!