of course it's ARE ALL THE THINGS FINISHED?

Voiceover: [spoiler] they are not, in fact, finished.

BATTLE PANIC STATIONS!

Back to work. From home, but man I wish I wasn't.

EVERYONE WANTS EVERYTHING NOW. After weeks of silence and no peeps or anything, it's all NOW NOW NOW NOW.

And what's most urgent is of course, the most difficult and convoluted. I've only just found the issue (in another piece of code someone I know has written, which might make general sense but is screwing up this one thing where I'm working right now and I have to work out how to fix it).

...and I've just realised I haven't actually eaten breakfast. Except the instant I go out from the study and into the kitchen, Maladicta will come RUNNING and demand food. (more food, anyway)

I am many many shades of tired, the gum is feeling swollen again, and WHY COULDN'T ANYONE HAVE ASKED ABOUT THIS STUFF TWO WEEKS AGO.

...I really need something to counteract the caffeine in my blood, don't I? Rightyo. Leftover pizza it is.

I'd hit that

An issue which popped up in a program I've been working on (in code that I hadn't changed) turns out to be not something I've done, but a piece of CONFIGURATION that hasn't been updated properly.

It's taken me 8 hours of drilling down, carefully peeling away layers and layers and layers and trying not to lose the thread for this ONE MATERIAL in about 60, and then, if I accidentally skipped it, or missed it, or didn't spot the change, I had to GO BACK AND START AGAIN FROM THE BEGINNING.

ONE PIECE OF CONFIGURATION.

The functional specialist was all but accusing me of changing things that I shouldn't have been changing.

Right now, I really feel like I could hit something. In any sense of the verb.

deadlines

And it turns out the thing that they're haranguing me about is to go live on the 19th. Which nobody told me when I started this.

*sigh*