brain bust

the pain post-exercise, the ugly, dusty, sticky heat, the exhaustion and the emotional drain of arriving back at work in uniform on a sunday morning...

... the hour-and-a-half presentation / suggestion / clarification on documentation...

another manager from orange called me today to let me know i'll be able to pick up my phone on tuesday... and also promised to pass on my suggestion / complaint up the chain. just like the previous girl i spoke to. i have *THIS* much faith in them.

work-avoidance / debriefing nystire after his polygraph experience (which was way more amusing than mine) got me into trouble with my TL... then i made it worse by making my stance on our priorities perfectly clear - i love the fact that while in principle he agrees with me, "there's nothing we can do, because we don't have the time".
but if we switch the order, we cut down the time on all the projects. yeah, maybe we shouldn't do that.

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i'd begun working on correcting an urgent translation for the mongoose when the plumber arrived... yeah, so i shouldn't have used the drain-cleaner. and definitely not twice.

i understand now that in addition to eating the pipes, when the liquid hits a block it can't get through it forms an extra, far stronger block. he brought in the little machine... didn't work. tomorrow he's bringing in the medium-sized one (needs to be operated outdoors and only during the day), which has increased the fare tremendously.

and if *that* doesn't work, then the (rather expensive) big guns come out. in addition to my own block, there's also the possibility of having to deal with a neighbour's. this is a problem with living in the last apartment on the chain.

still, at least i have enough drainage to shower - even if it is limited.

i took a break and my massive headache to visit ze germans, and we sat brainstorming a project that could've taken a lot of work, but together we managed to figure out how to cobble it together from existing services ^_^

i came home, and have been fixing bad english since. i'm now showering and crashing, at least tomorrow i don't have to wake up at 6am, even if i do have to sign off on more leave.

cartoon of the week: incredibleness