Like a Good Book

[I walk into ME's office after he called me over]
ME: "I want you to send our model of the so-and-so pump to Kim, she'll send it to our manufacturers."
Me: "Well, it's an incredibly large file, I doubt I'll be able to..."
ME: [looking at me with an amused face] "Why are you being difficult? I don't want the details..."
Me: "OK, I got it, you don't care how, just do it"

*snort*

As much as I would have loved to have told my news yesterday for real, it was just my little prank...

Sorry Hagar and Nurit...

Actually, the whole thing made me quite annoyed - it seems I fooled myself a bit in the process. :/

Nonetheless, it made me giggle for a while there.

I must say, I hate seeing these photos being that they came out not so great. The spirit is caught, yes, but the quality of the photos is, well, lacking. It's really high time I put my hands on a decent camera.

( Here they are )

It's Purim, so I'm walking around with an afro wig today. AS made a scared animal noise when he saw me, DO and NA both laughed like hell, IN almost choked on her morning coffee and AH stared for a few minutes before realizing what the fuck.

And I went downstairs to measure the distance between some sort of lie to another sort of lie (שקר כלשהו), and AL was on the truck, alone, listening to music (AL is one of our Thai workers). Luckily for me, the song was "Crazy like a fool", so 70's dance was needed... He also laughed.

:)

A small incident with the SolidWorks led to a 10 minute long laugh attack.

Now people know what I really am - crazy.

:)

I have to say, walking into the garage and looking at all of the guys who work there, and then hear what kind of music they're listening to...

[about 10-15 guys, all above 35-40 years old, most look very crude, listening to Adele and Kajagoogoo]

*~*

I'm sorry IZ, was I supposed to know how a truck is built?

[AS takes my place near the computer to look at the water tank, IZ is sitting next to him, enters ME]
ME: [to me] "I'll give you a rule of thumb - if you've been bumped from the computer it means you're on your way out"
Me: [joyfully] "So I can go home today? Thanks! [starts to pack]
ME: [amused] "I meant with a kick"
[everybody laugh]

*~*

The thing is, if it were SH that ME would have given that remark to, SH would have been sure it's his resignation letter.

:)

I really, really have to get a working/funny icon. *nudge nudge* hagar_972?

[IZ and I are talking about where to put the oil gauge on the oil tank]
Me [pointing to one of the tank's corners]: "What about here?"
IZ: "No, we can't read it from that angle."
Me [pointing to one of the tank's other corners]: "What about here?"
IZ: "No, it will probably get damaged there."
Me [pointing to one of the tank's other corners]: "What about here?"
IZ: "We might put crates there..."
Me [stares - there aren't any corners left]: "We can put two gauges."
Iz: "I love you too"
Me: *dies*

The second week of work went by more quickly, and much better.

For starters, my bosses (all three of them) are back from abroad/sick days, so I actually get some feedback to my work. The second thing is I got the green light to come by early train and leave earlier than 17:00 - this way, the chance of missing the 17:20 train (thus making me wait 40 minutes for the next train, a feat I would deeply want to avoid having done so twice already in the first week) is incredibly low, so with an average bus home I got there by 18:30 or even a tad earlier.

Before the war stories - a quick protocol: ME, the owner of the company; IZ, the head engineer; AS, head of development and my direct boss (he hired me) and SH, drawer who sits with me in the same room. (AS, SH and myself are the department for the time being).

( That's how engineering works )

Thursday was a good day when it came to compliments - from AS and ME (through IN, who works in acquisitions, who said ME walked into her room and said he was content with my performance).

( Hilarity with IN )

The plan was to leave work at 14:00 and meet my mom and sister for lunch. My sister bailed (she was sick, as was her husband), so my mom picked me up and we went to have lunch.

"Benedict" was nice as always (best Eggs Benedict I've ever tasted, but the service is somewhat lacking) and then we went to walk around along Dizengoff... Right into the waiting arms of the shop who holds the designs of the couple we bought clothes from last week at the City Designers' Fair (the picture y'all got this morning? Their shirt).

The loot came down to two shirts for me and a coat for my mom (who is stunning - squares in different shades of ancient pink and purple, very retro).

We also got some food in a fromagerie to take to Michali and Eyal.

And on the way home, in the Holon junction, while waiting for the light to turn green, a man walked into the middle of the road and started to juggle with four or five balls, leaving them for periods of time on his head and rolling them on to his arms. My mom gave him 5 NIS and we drove off, laughing.

Went to visit Michali and Eyal after that and consumed some of the food my mom bought with me and before that and then we went home (picked up grandma on the way).

And that was a good day.