right in two

i left my brolly in the office yesterday, and this morning i got caught in a downpour as i left the apartment. i'd left a bit later than i should have, as i was occupied with the consumption of a rather tasty (and healthy) muesli-melon:



piles has not improved, in fact he's gotten worse. our TL heard some of the fighting and has told me he'll see about fixing the situation. the kid just doesn't want any of it, and by not acting he's not doing himself any favours, and piles is a complete turd.

thai lunch of super-spicy buffalo wings was great.

i spent a lot of the day with our welfare officers, after my SC finally conceeded that the vacation is a good idea and our BC signed the papers. unfortunately a vacation of this nature can take a week to process, which is a week too long - this means that there'll be more harrassing to be done.

and the bastards refuse to accept faxes, so the poor girls had to mission off to the induction base (i couldn't go in their stead) in the pouring rain on my account :(

thing is, i'm glad that my commanders have finally understood that it's the right thing to do, but at the same time i feel shitty that my SC has had to give in: the last thing i want is for him to think i've lost faith, when it's not faith in him that's missing.

i finally got around to compiling a test web-service, and we would have deployed it if it wasn't for that niggling little detail concerning the existence of a server to deploy to. i also spent a while figuring out that something our TL has requested isn't feasible.

i spoke to my taekwondo instructor: i'll be resuming training either this friday or next monday. and quitting smoking, probably this weekend. i've been saying it for over two years, and i'm bloody well doing it.

back at work: i've discovered that our cute french graphic designer has a blog, but it's in french. kinda hard to decode, that. but i learned to add d'lait to nuage :P

i'm done with my side of the project, but it's now up to me to integrate. i find it hard to concentrate when the class and variable names reference costumers. fancy-dress foreign exchange, anyone?

---- later ----

spot, the kid and i sat chatting at cafeneto, and i've come to the conclusion that the kid should write up a formal complaint against piles and serve it tomorrow. piles has gone against no less than five of the primary directives of the army: trustworthiness, responsibility, professionalism, discipline and fellowship. that's what you get after learning all of the directives by heart. i think confinement to base and / or jailtime would be good for him.

myself experiencing a rare moment of happiness

colour shuffling
styling!
educational!
wow. i feel safer already :S