all hallow's eve!

when the spirit world's a step away, and we disguise ourselves so that the horrors that may be lurking won't recognize our humanity. never fear! most of us aren't too human anyway!

i spent today being a codemonkey, and i loved it ^_^
except the part where i crashed everything with a well-placed infinite loop. i haven't done that in years.

the food in the officer's mess was fairly good today, but nystire said it best: "we keep coming back as hope triumphs over experience".

i bought an armband for my ipod, cheap and functional. the intention was to buy bedclothes, but the selection wasn't exactly pleasing.

nystire has fallen into a language hole that i learned to stay away from years ago. when you respond in english to a group of hebrew speakers, and they all fall over themselves in an attempt to practise their broken, possibly hip-hop inspired pseudo-eengleesh. after this circulates for a while, nobody has a clue what anybody else has said, and the lack of meaningful communication causes a work bottle-neck.

when i explained it to him, he took personal offense. he surprises me every time with frightening childish behaviour, and it worries me that he doesn't get that this sort of thing affects the office dynamic, and that it's important to take constructive criticism too.

i swear, any more of this and i'm going to put him in the same box as the kinder.

i called my TL to brief him on my progress, and got horribly stuck when trying to explain something to him. i don't like phones, but there are things i struggle to communicate directly and phones certainly don't make it any easier.

the kid should be home soon, and we're going to be heading to our first SC's home for a farewell celebration. i'll personally be celebrating the fact that the army's got one less of him to worry about. then we'll be off to join our neighbour for her birthday: nothing cooler than being born on halloween - i'll be taking my body-paint.