so far, not amazing

 my sunday didn't begin so well, it started with the beginnings of a sniffle and a sore throat which has gotten progressively worse. thanks, mr smear. as the day progressed i became more disheartened, i'm very unhappy with having to babysit a highly complex solution that's full of components on fire, and the more i looked into things the less certain i became of what was relevant and what wasn't.

after a long day, i came home, watched an episode of pokémon indigo league (we've finally agreed that we can put aside the animal cruelty and exploitation and give the series another chance) and finished watching the chamber of secrets. almost immediately after putting mr smear to bed, while i was trying to decide whether to chance going to bed myself, my pager went off.

i had neither the knowledge nor the permissions to deal with the issue, so my team lead put me in touch with another team lead and the two of us worked on the thing (i bore witness, at least) until around 11pm. and then i crashed.

to be woken yesterday morning at 4.40am. again, no knowledge or permissions, and i woke up my team lead and we spent the next couple of hours on a call. we ended the call on an unpleasant note, and i couldn't get back to sleep.

frustrated, and with so much frustration having accumulated, and full of bad feelings, i started updating my resume and am considering putting feelers out.

i tried to have a conversation with my team lead when we were both in the office, but it would take all day to get an opportunity to speak to him privately. during that time, i got paged for two further incidents that i still don't know anything about.

we finally had it out in the evening, and while i have no way of knowing whether things went "well" or not i think we both did some airing of grievances and went a long way to clearing the air. i certainly feel like we're more aligned than before, and we haven't spoken properly in months which i suggested might be the cause of the drift.

he took over my night shift and told me to go home and clear my head, which i think i've managed to do. hopefully things will improve.

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i'm shocked that the aircon people charged us NIS 500 for two remote controls that cost at most 100 each, where the main cost was apparently the "call out fees" for delivering said remotes. i wouldn't have paid, but these are the bastards we need if the air conditioners themselves need maintenance so they really have us by the balls. so that's an expensive lesson...