scores of things

i finished oliver twist last night: an entirely amusing ending to what was an absolutely fabulous book.

wake-up was horrid: throat caked, head-ached and the sleep was worthless due to a distinctive lack of breathing.

my mom faxed me a copy of my degree and grades today. i'd forgotten that in my last year, with 20 courses, i scored an average of 85%. i was considerably more focused than in my first year... the one where my average hung around 20-30% :P

i studied oracle developer's java importer today; the last note was "if you attempt to reference an invalid object you may corrupt your form data and crash the server". okay, so we won't use the java importer.

while going through a whole lot of oracle documentation, i came across something absurd and frightening: pl/sql server pages. psp. that's just wrong, on so many levels - it begins with "who the hell would want to use pl/sql for anything?!?!" and ends with sony.

after lunch, the kid hit us with a riddle that had us going for a while. in the end i discovered that i'd solved it correctly, but the answer was wrong because i think in english and not in hebrew. sue me.

i spent about two hours in total at the clinic today. the first part was telling the medic what's wrong with me (sinusitis problems since childhood) and what i need for it (i ran out of sinutab), and having to go through a full examination anyway - if i've been through surgery for it, i might just have a clue what i'm talking about.
the second part was a long wait, staring at nothing (and making enough noise every now and then to remind them of my presence) until just before i had to leave the base. i got annoyed and walked in to the clinic supervisor's office, and 5 minutes later walked out with the goods. they couldn't have just told me that today is stupid day?

spuzz gained staff sergeant today - another excuse to throw an hour away. it was a bit of an awkward ceremony.

i had a good chat with my SC on my way out, but it delayed me and i arrived at work late. i walked in to "nql said that you need to solve the problem with x", where x is a system i'm unfamiliar with. much irritation and hassling of the provider later, and we discovered that my initial assumption was correct - my app was fine, our provider was fine (strangely enough), but the production server's environment was out.

nql is the server admin, fortunately he left me alone once we reached that conclusion. although he was reluctant to admit that something could possibly be wrong with a system he's responsible for.

i spent the evening being unhappy with the php work. so far, the new provider's not looking much better than the old one.

this looks like a good read... but i think he's talking about an extreme in a world where we tend to talk about the "model user", who is slightly lower in the self-preservation ratings than a lemming.

i met up with spot and the kid at cafeneto: the kid made a good point about our needing to do something every night to make up for working too much, and the cafeneto is it.
sunshine is a good enough excuse for me, though.

i've just had a shower and i'm going to bed, praying that i'll breathe in my sleep this time.