Too Smart

Aaargh – it’s been one of those days, work-wise.

Do you ever have a day where you come up with a really good idea, one that could (in theory) make something a hell of a lot easier? And then spend some time thinking about it, and fail to see any problems?

So of course you start to make this idea into reality. And it becomes more complicated. Suddenly – no matter how long you thought about it first – problems come in that you hadn’t considered. And the problems are actually quite complicated, and make things a lot more difficult. But hey, the idea was still really good, and you still think you can do it, so you go on, and (in this case) write some more stuff to fix those problems.

And then another set of issues come up, and you think “Ah, bugger. That’s getting ugly and nasty now. I’d best go back to the easy (but dull, and rather uninventive) way I was going to do it originally.”

So, having been busy for most of the day, you come out of it with absolutely nothing worthwhile, except for learning that even really good ideas can suck utterly in practice.

Yeah, that’s the kind of day it’s been.

(Of course, I’m a tenacious twat, and really really bad at admitting defeat. So I’ll probably see if I can suss out the second set of problems over the weekend, without making it into a truly ugly piece of code.)