Good morning!

And hey, I'm even awake for it. Yesterday was decent after all. Today is going to be good, darnit. Or at least decent again.

I'm midway through a code crawl (okay, a quarter of the way through a code crawl) in a module I need to learn more of the guts of. On the one hand, it's highly instructive, and will hopefully help me solve a major problem. On the other hand? On the other hand, a detailed code crawl of a large module, calling functions you don't know, can take a while. I started it late yesterday and with interruptions, so I'm hoping to finish it today - hoping, but not counting on.

I really hope it contains some answers for what's going on. If nothing else, I'll know these routines better by the end of this than I do now.

Hopefulness and good day musings.

I did some things very right in the new demo distribution - like putting all the extra lines in the ini file so that things could be turned on and off at will.

And I did a couple things not-so-right, such as forgetting one important section of the file. Ah, well, win some, lose some.

So far, I'm on top today. I changed a feature for a client. Net cost to me: under a minute. Net gain for the client: immense. (Thank heavens for flag settings - and this makes sense for the baseline, so good all around.)

And I'm almost 400 lines past where I was in the file I was reading (which is almost 8000 lines long), despite the interruptions. It really is a good morning - it's pretty out. And one of the resource personnel in for the training class today brought bagels, and offered one. He really wanted me to accept, but I had breakfast already - I didn't need a bagel to go with it. Nor was it really tempting - wrong mood for a bagel. But I appreciated the gesture a great deal, at least.

And he said that one of the settings I put in the ini file made it easy for him to adapt to a network-less situation without effort. Another thing I did right. Yay!

It's pretty outside: grey, damp but not wet, the light a bit pale, a bit wan, but gloriously light-colored. Silver light. It softens everything just a bit. Yesterday the trees glowed - light green, dark green, purple. Today they blend, soften edges. Yesterday was water colors, today is oil paints.

So far, so good. I admit, I've only been here an hour and a half, but the day is being kind.

And, as a small note? 3,000 is not equal to 30,000. Typos, bah.

That didn't last long.

The whole network went kablooey, the form isn't working right, I can't get what data is in the form when it isn't working right....

Never mind. I can only do what I can do. Deep breath.

And back to reading the code, because it's the best - maybe only - way I have of tracking this down.

You have to be kidding me. They want to not just give him a 1-month vacation (which is fine, though the ultimate timing turned out to be awful), but to take him completely off this product?

You have to be kidding me.

And whee. My allergies or a cold or both are acting up.

I'm tired, I'm achy, and my nose is stuffed and my eyes itch and run easily.

Just wonderful. Goes very well with needing to get lots of things done, this wanting to go home sick and take the "knock-you-out" antihistamine (since the non-drowsing hasn't, apparently, quelled this).