kick in the teeth

two-in-one posting, i can't blog from home and i don't know why.

yesterday:

bus to bank, pleasant banking, arriving in time for lunch, amazingly horrible piles (he's really cheeky and has a really bad attitude, not a good combination), boring afternoon

the kicker: we've been given an impossible amount of work to do, approximately five big projects simultaneously. it's frightening.

spot and i discussed the history of the original alien movie over supper. horrifying in itself and extremely interesting. i'm annoyed that he watched it without me.

oracle amusement. our provider's system has a fascinating security flaw that allows us to log in directly to their database. we don't know how good their logging is, so it isn't worth actually doing anything, but it does have potential - i could go around their apis completely :P

"it's in development"
"when was the last time a version was released?"

i can be a real bastard when somebody wastes my time. i got our provider's tech-support to provide me with great leverage.

deftones - no ordinary love is a great track.

spot and i walked to the balcony, i got smashed, and then we walked all the way home because i'd confused the bus routes. i wrote a long post, which is sitting at home feeling sorry for itself (i really don't know why i can't post), and fell asleep around 2 / 2.30am.

thank you nystire:
familiar trouble
inspired



today:

the red-bull wake-up wasn't as effective as i'd have liked. i'm surviving today purely on caffeine. tons of work the entire day. way too much pressure. around 2pm, our SC came in to inform us that our schedule has been tightened. thumbscrews come to mind. i have 24 working days left, and the impossible has just become absurd. in the middle of the meeting i asked if it was okay to just bring in the cute girl in the bunny suit with a cake and have her yell "surprise!", and let me know that it's all just a terrible good-bye practical joke.

no such luck. i left the kid and piles working (yes, piles has to actually work on our systems now. this is just stupid.), and hopped a stuffy bus to azrieli to buy umbrellas for myself and spot. i ran into nystire's brother on the way, and we went through almost every store until we found something. strangely enough, i finally met a girl i've was trying to get a hold of today; i didn't tell her who i was, so she was quite confused when i walked up and informed her that i'd been looking for her today. then nystire's brother introduced us, and she suddenly realized who i am... and then immediately said a quick goodbye :P

i got decent brollies, and then came to work. my brain's dead.

CLAWsome