hungover study

and no time to post...

yesterday morning: i strapped on my blades and rolled to purchase a standard rental contract, then stopped by the hardware store to replace cupboard handles. the guy there told me that they didn't have, and that i'd have to try in south tel aviv... and only in south tel aviv. good thing i didn't entirely trust him! i found a store less than 200m from there which had exactly what i needed.

i studied a little, worked a little, then went to my old office. i had a good meeting with the boss, who happily authorized my taking a month's vacation, and he was pleased to hear where we're sitting now that i'm back on track. i had warned him not to put me in charge of something as unrelated to my field as setting up a server, but it turned out that that involved massive rewrites of the application code (because the code was so tightly coupled to the production environment) so i guess it was a necessary hell.

i grabbed a sandwich and headed off to the new office; the a/c's still out. it was a hot afternoon. some of the work was fun, some horrifically tedious, and the last exchange was between me and my boss wherein he warned me that if i take a month off they might have to replace me.

swak.

the ride home seemed really long. i scanned the contract and sent it to my potential tenant with a list of the modifications we'll make*, then got dressed and ready for the wedding.

* i've made that all sound really simple. attempting to read the infernal thing gave me a headache; without pg's help, i'd have had to find a lawyer. writing the additions wasn't too tough because the guys speaks good enough english, but it still took a lot of thought...

the drive there was horrible. aside from some aggravating mistakes on my part, we picked the wrong highway and other drivers were having moments around us as well. to make matters worse, we made a wrong turn and ended up on the right highway going in the wrong direction...

the wedding was nice. seeing all the guys i did my completion course with was a mixture of great and awkward. very few of them recognized me with hair :)
the music was mostly good, and by the time the bits that weren't good were played i was already drunk enough to enjoy them anyway.

one of the guys hitched a ride back with us and we chattered non-stop all the way back to tel aviv; pg and i went straight to bed.

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this morning was slow, and with good reason. at least i didn't have to get up too early :)

the bethesda hack didn't touch me: it's the first time there's been something positive about my not having played fallout 3. perhaps i should get into it once they've sorted out their database encryption.

i missed an appointment that i'd had to wait weeks for - my alarm went off while i was still waking up, and completely slipped my mind :S

after a day of studying, i just got off the phone with mmf who has pretty much authorized my leave. not everything's under control, but as much as can be done to keep my position warm will be done, and i can't ask for fairer than that.

now i have fifteen minutes to get some work done before heading off to training. the evening's already fully booked...