Tired, Fustrated, and Trudging Along
Posted by: Ruel Knudson in Campaign Resource Manager, Developer Blog, DPnP, E-RPG General DevelopmentThis week has been full of frustrations. I won’t go into all of the details. Suffice it to say that one incredibly stupid assumption on my part, as well as an entire host of other events throughout this week, have exhausted me. I am glad the week, and the weekend, are over and am looking forward to a fresh start on Monday.
It all started with the DLL file for equipment that I have to rewrite. There was about 6-10 hours of code done on the new version. I have even been able to expand into some things I was not able to before because the system, at the time, would have been to complicated. There is a huge amount of tedium involved in this process, that feels like delivering mail. I put the pieces into their slots, look down to see my basket getting lighter, only to know I have a good 30 more baskets still in the truck. It is tough because so much of the code is so similar, but still requires unique references. So I built, and built…
And built.
At some point I think my daughter must have hit the power button on my PC which set it to standby mode. I was done with the computer for the evening and didn’t think anything about it being turned off. I figured my wife may have done it, she would have saved and closed things out properly for me, and no harm done.
Instead, what had happened, is the PC went on standby. No big deal right? Well, the next morning I turn it all on and find it waking up from standby mode. Curious, but OK. No big deal. I see the IDE sitting their waiting for the next key stroke to begin the new code. However, I have chores first. Before I go to run off to do the chores a message box pops up with the update notice that things were updating while I was asleep. I make sure it isn’t saying it is going to restart. Instead it asks to install the updates. Fine, click OK.
So I get my kids breakfast. My daughters and I have breakfast together every morning if we can help it. I enjoy it immensely. Anyways, we finish up and I look up from doing the dishes only to find my computer is shutting itself down. Not restarting, not prompting, just restarting. I am thinking “Aw crap, I hope I saved the file”. To late to stop it now anyways.
Sure enough, it was not saved. It pulled up the “recovery” file of the program I was working on and guess what, it is sans the 6-10 hours of work. So everything cool I had done was gone! I was furious. Enraged.
As one might expect, not much got coded that day.
Or the day after.
By the next day I was a little more reasonable to the entire having-to-do-it-all-over thing and began work. I was not as fast, focus, or efficient but I had made a good 60% of the progress back. The next day, my friend Jon Soto, who had disappeared for almost 2 months (there was a very good reason and I am glad that he manage to pull through OK). He and I went over some design elements for a fantasy campaign and I helped him with some contacts in the apartment industry to find him a new place to live. All said and done, not much work on Friday either.
This weekend was an exercise in over scheduling. That is all I will say about that.
So I am eagerly awaiting tomorrow and a fresh start. I have had several days of frenzy and fun and no programming so that I am ready to dive back in. Truth be told, I am on a hair trigger to start today. However, I am forcing myself to not do any work on this stuff to make sure I am purged of last weeks frustrations. I am only writing this blog to satisfy that part of my that feels like I should be doing some Ironwood work before I go run off to play some video games, drink a cup of coffee, and in general goof off and enjoy a quieter day with my wife and kids.
