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okay. i think i got the sugar out of my system. today was a glorious day. nothing particularly lovely happened, it just *was lovely*. i had decided to just feel good, and did.

actually, i'm wrong, something lovely *did* happen. my code - the code that i 'finished' writing a couple days ago - had bugs. that's a natural part of the software lifecycle. there be bugs, so find them, squash them.

a HA, but the system is so complex that i don't really know how to test it. (i only wrote a small component of the overall system.) enter a, the stereotypical techie. he of the there is no software i can't understand community. and, co-architect of the system. my bug is preventing him from using something *he* wrote. but bless him, he good-naturedly looks at where he suspects the problem is. finds it, tweaks it, with me looking over his shoulder. it was the easiest thing in the world - particularly as he did most of the work. actually the easiest thing in the world would have been for me to stay home. but i did one better, i went to work and looked over a's shoulder. i love teamwork!

i am absolutely blessed by having really great programmers as co-workers. it makes it easy to deal with problems like this, as normally i can find the bug, but sometimes, like today, i needed help.

i have a really good rapport with my coworkers and boss, and that is the great thing about working where i do. it means i can have exchanges like this with my boss:

"holly, do you have any tipex?" (note: 'tipex' is white-out)

"um, no, it tends to get the screen all mucky."

everyone laughed, including, thank god, my boss. but i suppose you had to be there.