debug

The office space, the guys with ties and suits. They all stay around me, watch me, expect from me. It’s my job to install things, to make them work in a completely new environment in a predetermined time. It’s the last day of the install and I need to have everything working now to avoid being late. Driven to improve, to assure stability only generates new issues and when problems appear for a moment I loose hope, I feel everything is falling apart and that those guys are looking at me with heavy eyes....

In the last few years I continuously battled to keep my weight under control. All the work, stress and deadlines pushed me out of balance and I had to fight it back each time. Inside I always known it’s a question of speed and volume but I could never formulate in such an applicable way. Not until a few weeks ago and I waited for so long until I would reach one of the otherwise impossible targets in order to try to write it down....

As many other times, I am faced a deadline. Putting together various stuff, testing, making order into a big mess to create a line of work. This is an analysis deadline, must try, must test, must evaluate, must decide upon the way to go, must write down all decisions in the form of a technical specification. It’s nothing clear, using components which won’t work, using code which won’t compile but finally a decision must be taken....