hush

yesterday's post disintegrated when firefox crashed on me. this is a check to see how much of it i can remember in my present lack of a state of mind:

waking up was slow and painful, which was to be expected. the kid and i arrived on base just after our TL, who'd really enjoyed himself too much at the party and actually went home an hour or so later... he told us on his way out that he'd understand if we had a slowdown... we took advantage and napped quite a bit in the office :P

it was the first time in a long time that i had absolutely nothing to do all day, so when i wasn't napping i was milling around chatting with friends. the only thing i did that could count as work was helping to solve a non-problem before we left... we've decided to add a new status to problems that shouldn't have been sent in the first place. we normally return "Rejected", tuesday morning i'm adding "DENIED".

i hurt my back in the evening, i don't know exactly how and it frustrated me until i went to bed.

inspiration, according to terry pratchett (i'm mentioning this for the sake of the poor sods who've never read his book and aren't familiar with my site, 'cause i *know* i've quoted this before), exists in the form of particles whizzing through the universe that every now and again strike home and flick a switch.

last night, after deciding that i had nothing much to do (i'm on hold, at the moment), i went out for a cigarette. as i sat on the steps smoking and pondering unrelateds, *BANG* the problematic code flashes before my eyes with the obvious solution.

i'm embarrassed to admit it, but admit it i shall! a common mistake (and amateur, too) in programming is to assume that the logic that works in our world works electronically. if i turn on the microwave, i can do things while waiting for it to ping at me. all i had to do was get my service to check for instructions every five seconds, as opposed to every cycle (le oops), and everything's alright now. aside from me being a tad ashamed.

omg - i hope this is for high-school students

i left work early, and zmobied (sorry) my way back home. one of the waitresses caught me, and instructed me to come back around 11pm, so i went home, watched another episode of dinosaurs, napped until spot arrived, and went back with him to sit over hot chocolate and okay-i-couldn't-help-myself-and-the-waitress-was-pressuring-me toasted sandwiches.

today:

awesome wake-up: well, actually, the awesomeness only began after the shitty start. i woke up having given myself exactly the amount of time i needed to shave and shower, and spot was already in the shower. so the morning began with spot and me shouting and cursing each other, and then abusing the kid and his shag; it was all very loud and extremely funny.

arriving on and leaving our base was fun. trips always have a good vibe, and it was a bright and sunny morning :)

*censored*
but it really felt like we were in the army, and i'm still blown away.

afterwards, we had a picnic lunch. i discovered that my nano fits in my wallet. that astounds me. we went on a fun hike, with a sit-down for coffee at the end, and then we called it a day and missioned home.

our TL dropped us off in the centre of tel aviv... and it still took almost an hour to get to work. crazy traffic :S

i met up with spot at the aroma near our office, and had sammiches on the way to work.

spot and i have a constant competition going vis-a-vis our sign-in cards. as we got to the swiping floor, we both pulled out from our wallets simultaneously, and then stared in shock when we realized that we'd both pulled out our visa cards instead; and neither of us has done that before.
ultra-weird. but it was hysterical at the time.

nystire came for a visit, and when i returned to do some actual work i fixed the colours and spoke to the manager and i was done for the night. spot and i spent some time wrestling with my application (we have to modify things for the production environment), and that's almost complete. so it looks like i'll be leaving without any worries :D

בוקר טוב בדיוק ניזכרתי שהיום לפני שנה השתחררתי וניזכרתי איך גרמת ליום הזה להיות שמח אז רציתי להגיד תודה שיהיה יום טוב....

(rough translation: a year ago exactly i was released and i remember how you made the day such a happy one)

i got the above message from jgirl when i unlocked my pc (i keep forgetting to log out when i leave work), but she was offline already so i couldn't respond with "you know, the biggest mistake you ever made was not falling in love with me" :/

at least my most romantic action ever wasn't completely unappreciated... although it would've been better if she hadn't gone back to her ex.

we left work a bit early, for a raucous evening at the cafeneto - that never happens, but spot's cousin, the kid and the kid's shag were there, and sunshine and one of the managers were around for some laughs :)