I have a cold. I hate it. I’m feeling really shit and there is no way at all I can’t go to work tomorrow. I’m so stressed over this project and I have to go in and work on it. I also fucked it up today. Sometimes I get too wrapped up in the bigger picture when all I need is to zoom in and look at a few lines of code.<\/p>\n
About 5.30 after bashing my head against my desk for an hour or so I decided to throw in the towel and go with my first thought. The new(ish) requirements just were not technically possible. And they are not. So I spoke with my boss and I made a call to the product manager and let them know. Then I left work and put it out of my mind. Got on the bus to take me home and it struck me how stupid I had been. Yep, absolutely it’s impossible…but if I change one tiny little factor, one single argument with the piece of code it’s possible. Sure I’ll have to compensate for it a little later and it’s gonna cause a couple of minor issues but of course it’s fucking possible and I should have known that from the start. So I’m annoyed with myself over that. I’ll go in and write the code in the morning and send a couple of emails with instructions about it while kicking myself.<\/p>\n
Sometimes the big picture isn’t important. It’s not the destination that counts, its the small twists and turns to make sure you get there. It’s good code too, it’s what I use to love doing a couple of years ago and I use to be damn good at it. I’d never (rarely) have fucked up like this, 5 minutes after I’d been asked I would have it written and ready to go. I’m rusty, that’s all. I don’t need to be doing it for my job anymore and so I’ve lost the touch. Which is in it’s own way a shame, cause I was damn good at it. Better than most of my peers.<\/p>\n
Anyway I hope this cold goes away soon but somehow I just know that I’ll still be suffering with it come Thursday. I’m going to go and have a cup of hot mint chocolate and then I’m going to go to bed and get some sleep. I’m cold, I want to lie down and get warm and not worry about things for a while and hopefully wake up in the morning feeling better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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