inside out

they're all mad. apparently fedex found the documents, but now they're denying it. apparently they were sent to toronto instead of cape town. the consulate representative i spoke to assured me that she'll do what she can, but also explained that they took our complaints about the documents going missing personally and now that they've been found they'd like me to contact the consul general and report that they did, in fact, give excellent service (perhaps sending our critical, sensitive documents to the wrong address is part of "excellent service"?).

and time marches inexorably on, and it's becoming more and more likely that we'll have to go to canada before we get to israel. this is all very nightmarish.

at least my current contract continues regardless of where i'm located. i cannot overstate how grateful i am nor how much of a difference that makes.

this week started with some bad news - the deployment was successful but exposed a problem that, now that we have useful dashboards set up, has been a long time coming. we scrambled to fix it and managed to get that out early on tuesday, and getting that resolved has left a very good feeling.

mr smear's really sick, just as our kibbutz cousin has arrived for a visit - hopefully we'll all be healthy enough to have drinks or dinner before she leaves.

i managed to help out my aikido friend this evening, while adding really useful functionality to my telephony application. and i also put together an outline for a really cool team shirt design and handed it off to my nephew (who's a graphic designer) in the hopes that he can make it beautiful and we can get prints done in time for our department's end-of-year presentations.