I feel jubilant today. The chaos that the last two weeks were finally seem to be (hopefully) over. I get to create a patch of all the fixes I have been making and unleash them on unsuspecting people! MUHAHAHAHAHA! Seriously, I was so stressed out I couldn't even think straight, I wonder how was I carrying on talking to people, eating, riding my bike, living :-/

I asked my manager for tomorrow off as I had been working 15-16 hour for the past couple of days. Luckily he agreed, assuming this patch goes on well tonight. I hope it does. The training till 5 pm and then coming here to work on this issue coz of the deadlines was getting a bit too much. Another week of this and I'll be bringing a Uzi to the office ;-)

I need to start managing my time right. For instance, right now I should just create that patch and then get the hell out of here. But here I am, penning my thoughts for an invisible audience (maybe I have lost my sanity :-) ). Actually I'm waiting for US people to wake up so I can talk to my manager there (yesh, I have two managers, ain't I lucky?). I really hope he doesnt bring up any fresh issues or I'll be dead...

It feels so weird, no, surreal, to actually be a professional software developer. This is what I had been dreaming about all my life, right from school days. This is what I wanted so badly I kept reading my programming books right through the exams, even the final board exams, and then the entrance exams, and then the college exams. Sometimes I shudder when I think how I actually managed to pass most of them (with the few exceptions in college, which I did clear finally). But this? This is not what I wanted! This was not my idea of being a coder. Perhaps I got into this without really knowing what it would entail (just like I got into Electronics & Communication for my bachelors without knowing what would that entail, but that is long sad story for another time). Maybe you want to look at The Software Developer as Movie Icon for a similar idea.

Now I come to realize what someone meant when they said '75% of the computer industry is maintainence of older stuff'. Just never really thought about it. Plus the fact that since most of the ca$h for the industry comes from the business world, so naturally they would drive most of the work too. Hmmmm. Interesting thought.

It all finally comes down to what am I doing about it? Currently not much. But I have noticed that the work I get has been improving over time. Or maybe the fact that I don't actually have time to sit back and think about it has quieted me down.

Anyway, it is getting late and I want to get that %^&* patch done. So have a nice time, where ever you are :-)