last day of the second last week!

a quick review of the day, as gco's on his way:

sad coffee start: i will not buy coffee at the train station. i will not buy coffee at the train station. i will not buy coffee at the train station.

presentation issues: something's wrong. i spent a large part of my day fiddling around with powerpoint, unable to figure out why some of my presentations consistently crash but only in certain environments. *this* is what all my education and experience is for. this, and picking up über-gross hairy bits of grime while cleaning corridors and kitchens.

tomorrow's birthday boy's card is really nice - we outdid ourselves. pity about the timing, we wanted to give it to him along with his gift before he disappeared for the weekend, but it was, alas, not to be.

i mentioned my new project to an ex-team-mate today while in earshot of someone who just happened to be in charge of the exact same project at the unit level! we didn't know it existed!
at the moment i'm the only person taking it seriously, my design meets all the requirements (and then some) that have already been proposed - all in all, i'm quite excited that this could really go somewhere. the prototype won't be easy because it needs to be easily portable and java's not good with interfaces... but that appears to be the only hurdle.

i don't really know how i found myself staring at a glass cabinet with a display of a system running win 3.1 inside, and seeing my reflection superimposed on it with a single tear-drop winding down my cheek. the tear was there before i noticed the screen, i think i'd just yawned it out, but the moment was surreal.

i had a long discussion with a girl on the way home about command proximity - she'd been so upset by a stupid and childish officer at the beginning of her service that she won't allow herself to befriend her current ones. that's really sad.

this evening's pda trauma (as described previously) has left me feeling a little... over-radiated. i hope i don't have to spend too many more hours on it until it gets "super-cool" as opposed to just "sweet".

soon - soon i will be arriving in sunny south africa, for a real holiday. i was a bit disappointed to find out this evening that SxS will be arriving here only a couple of days before i leave, i didn't realize / didn't remember that he would be in israel while i'm away, which is a pity.