Breakthrough!

For the most part, work as a Data Transponster is a fairly cushy number. Sure, there's a fair amount of thinking involved in carving out designs, and then there's some work in turning those designs into actual code, but it's not hard, at least in comparison with many other jobs.

But every so often...

For the past week and a bit, I've been wrestling with a bear of a problem - one of those tiny glitches that are both monsters to find and nigh-impossible to fix. And, worst of all, every time I did an analysis of the system I concluded "it should work like this..." only to find that, of course, it didn't.

And so, every night for the past week and a bit I've gone home stressed and frustrated, and no closer to actually fixing the problem.

(And although physically it's still true to say that my job has been easy, that would be to massively downplay the mental effort involved in all of this. It has been really, really hard going.)

Anyway, I fixed the problem today. And there was much rejoicing!