The Peak that Followed the Trough

Posted on 2007/05/31 23:09:14 (May 2007).

[Thursday 31st May]
I worked damn hard today - started before 9, and didn't finish until after 10, with just a short break for lunch and dinner. However, unlike yesterday's general tone of abysmalness (abysmality? abysmalation?), today everything seemed to go my way, and I managed to get to the bottom of a really major problem, which had up until now seemed pretty unfathomable, and was jeopardizing the whole project. The "Eureka moment" was really quite ecstatic, having spent weeks of slicing up the data, generating endless graphs and histograms, to finally have something just click and realise what was going wrong was utterly fabulous. I was almost getting teary over it.

As Jimmy used to put it, today I had the success token.

One of the nice side effects of this is that it now seems pretty unlikely that I will have to go to the US to sort this out, as was proposed yesterday. As a double whammy my superhuman performance today may have also made reparations for any "bonus damage" incurred yesterday as a result of showing resistance to another business trip. A superb result all round!

Whilst I am quite concerned my job is becoming my entire life, at the end of day I felt absolutely great. On return home I had a couple of "otsukare sama" beers, which tasted so much better for having really earned my wages today.

GOOD JOB MAN!!! You have now earned paramedic rank 2 :D

So.... when is the project going to go "live"?

Posted by Lox at 2007/06/01 05:53:28.

I like days like that too... make it worth working!

Posted by tom at 2007/06/04 13:58:27.

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