The world as I see it

Have you ever had a project where most of it is straight forward, but there is that one step that just doesn't seem possible.  That is a 'magic happens here' task.  I just finished writing one of those for the system I am developing at work. For a week we have been slogging through the design and prototyping of this subsystem.  Every time we got to this one spot we would say, "There is where it all comes together."  Last night, that was the only spot of code not done. It is nice to know I still have the magic.  For the magic happens there now and it works every time.

I haven't found that many idle moments here.  Work is busy, very busy.  As is the norm for my life there is enough  work for 3 or 4 of me and I only have one assistant.  He's good, but I need more. I feel like I am building a cardboard box from the inside by glueing little scraps of paper together while someone is out there spraying the whole construct with water.  I'll get done, but it will all be mush. Time to get back to work.