For the most part, programming is fun and highly addictive for me. However, there are a lot of major frustrations. Today is one of those days that makes me want to give it all up and become a professional ski bum. But of course, I'm just venting and know that this won't really happen!
A) After four failed attempts at installing Vista 5270 (from a DVD) onto my Toshiba Tecra M4, I finally took a deep breath and closed the laptop up to deal with this another day.
B) Though I am suspecting some recent Windows Update, I am suddenly unable to debug any of my asp.net 1.1 applications on my remote server. After 4 years of working with asp.net, I am pretty confident of my ability to deal with “can't start debugging on the web server” messages. But it's just not happening on this day.
C) I'm watching all of this great content spewing forth from the blogs about WCF and haven't had an opportunity to play with it since I returned from Africa.
D) After weeks of rain and ice, it's finally snowing....beautiful big fat fluffy flakes of snow. Sitting inside watching it is just adding insult to injury.
I have been heard muttering around my house lately that I don't know why I choose to do something that makes me feel stupid so much of the time. But we all go through this stuff - constantly and probably frequently. It's amazing how powerful our love of programming enables us to get past days like this and keep at it.