Slugging it Out
There are those days that make you love the Job. There are those days that make you hate it. But for the most part, it's just that - a Job, and there's nothing particularly exciting about it and nothing particularly aggravating about it either. Today is one of those days.
I'd rather be doing something other than what I'm doing - which is debugging other group's libraries in my code without their source or support. It has to be done, because there isn't a real alternative, and it's not horrible because I have decent ways around most of the limitations I've found in their code, but it's still just plain old grunt work. Nothing fancy or glamorous, but the bread-n-butter of the developing job.
It's not fast because a significant change requires a restart which takes about 20 mins, but I try to make those significant, and therefore informative. It's going to get solved, it has to get solved. But it's not really something I'm going to put on my resume. It's just the job.