HBI's_girl's Journal: One of those nights

I am definitely having one of those nights. You know, those nights where things seem to be ok but quickly snowball once you start trying to actually do something?

In this case its futzing around with code. I started doing something I thought I could do. Really I did... Whenever I write and test code I work my way up slowly; you know... adding one thing in, compiling, testing, adding something else in, recompiling, retesting and so on.

It started out so well. But then I hit a wall. I am sure the path around the wall is very easily navigatable, but when I hit walls sometimes my brain stops functioning. And I mean really stops functioning. Like I forget how to do normal code because I get so worked up about my current problem and just turn into an idiot.

So I'm pretty much in idiot mode right now. I am sure I will come back to my current problem and laugh at myself for being silly/stupid... but I haven't yet reached that elusive moment of clarity.

Hopefully things will click soon. I keep thinking if I look at the file one more time I'll get it. Maybe there is something about the implementation I am overlooking. I dunno.

what my mom would say

[blinder]

when i was a kid i was big into model building. i would get models of ever increasing complexity and it would drive me to absolute frustration trying to put some of them together.

Well, my mom would come in my room to see how I was doing and I'd just be exhasperated with my inability to comprehend the directions and she'd just say "just put it down and walk away. When you come back you'll figure it out."

She was right 100% of the time. I would just put everything down, walk away. Get a snack, watch some TV

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great advice

[tuxette]

clear the mind, and the answers will follow...

ditto ditto ditto

[mekkab]

yeah, I'm a big fan of letting my sub-conscious tackle hard problems whilemy conscious whiles away on slashdot. The last ish I had was to figure out a way of coordinating between some 8 different threads, all with different locally available data. Once I had a bunch of the nuances in my head, I just vegged. And set a deadline. And lo and behold, when the dealine came, I started tapping away, and it came to me. Did some last minute checks to make sure this would be valid in all 8 cases, and yup. Solved