needs a vacation

10am was too early to get up. i went straight to work for a slow day. a short part of it was spent fighting with boss because he wanted to unnecessarily complicate a real-time process that it's taken a lot of work to separate from the rest of the system. that made me uncomfortable. an hour was wasted after that trying to figure out something that's apparently incredibly simple in azure, but - as usual - entirely undocumented. the remainder of the day was spent trying to do half a job. sometimes, that's harder than doing a full one.

is it good news or bad news that i've finally figured out how my payments are supposed to work, that the company hasn't paid me for two months and not one and that they've promised that they've sent me the money already? i will feel absolutely no remorse if given the opportunity to abandon them.

i returned home exhausted, rested for a while and then went with pg to the climbing wall. it was packed, and just as we were hesitating we discovered that there was another huge group of kids on its way. so we took a walk instead.

a long walk. filled with miscommunications. there's nothing like ruining a great evening with mutual stress... for nothing.

i had a bit of a headache, and instead of *doing* something i watched the third transformers movie with pg. i'm surprised that i didn't hate it like i did the first time. the acting's still bad and there're a number of horrific plot devices, but it was cool overall.

i went to bed early, writing my previous post using the blogger app (it's actually an effort to write in lowercase on an iphone, but capitals make me uncomfortable).

i woke up this morning with a really sore lower back. i've decided that perhaps running's not for me because i'm not willing to risk spinal injuries and damaged knees. pg suggested that i join her for walks, and between that and rollerblading i should be fine; what freaked me out was the thought of becoming like mmf, who's lower-back problems prevent him from being able to snowboard. HELL no.

it looks like i've got tickets for canada next month, and it's past time to make my time there count. over and out.