Done yesterday (20110426 Tu)

[mdlbear]

0426 Tu
  * up 6:45; W=196.4; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes, coffee, light
  * once again posted Done Yesterday before reading LJ.
  @ More on The Benefits of Standing Desks (And How To Build One On The Cheap)
  * walk: 3mi by the airport/Guadalupe River.  Nice day; a little warm.
  " (15:28:51) ***me@aim is feeling rather chagrined, having found and fixed a
     particularly stupid bug in one of the programs I've been working on.  I
     could have fixed it months ago had anyone given me an accurate report of
     it.
    ...
    (15:32:10) me@aim: True.  Embarrassing, though.  I announced it in an
     email with the subject line "egg on my face".  Fortunately, I'm ok with
     that kind of embarrassment. 
    (15:48:55) me@aim: So far I have avoided throwing the phrase "dumb bear"
     at myself, but it's been very tempting.
  " (21:57) //go you, dad!// 
  : A, the new girl in group, looks very forlorn most of the time but has
    the most amazing, sudden smile. 
  @ Are humans more like chimps or bonobos? The correct answer is
    changing. via firecat 
  @ Body Impolitic - Clothing, Sex, Safety, and Power - Laurie Toby
    Edison via firecat
  * bath 10ish (delayed by phone call), bed 11ish

Not a terribly eventful or productive day, but not a bad one. A good, long walk (for once), and I found and fixed a particularly stupid bug in one of the programs I'd been working on a few months ago. It was a compile-time configuration decision, to take out a feature that we weren't using at the time but that later turned out to be necessary -- by which time the original decision had been long forgotten.

I could have fixed it any time, had the coworker I've been having a hard time communicating with ever given me a coherent bug report instead of going down yet another rabbit hole of increasingly wacko work-arounds.

The really good thing about the whole episode was my success in not giving myself the label "dumb bear", the way I usually do. I did title the email I sent about it "Egg on my face", but that was a calculated gambit, in hopes of encouraging said coworker, who finally seems to be headed toward the design I've been trying for months to get him to follow. I have to talk to him tomorrow and find out what it was that finally made things click for him.

A couple of links up in the links. I'm still exploring Clothing, Sex, Safety, and Power by Laurie Toby Edison

Comments

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

it really does sound to me as if cow-orker needs attention from the clue-by-four; go you for not blaming yourself for not having enough information ;-) (positive reinforcement)

[mdlbear]

Thanks!