Another day at office

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Today, I woke up with a start. I was feeling groggy and wanted to go back to sleep. But mom would have nothing of it. It was already 7.45am ! She literally dragged me out of the bed. Little did she know, for that matter little did I know, what this outrageous act of hers is going to cost me. Oh yes, I call it outrageous. I loooovvvee sleeping and I hate it when I’m forced to wake up. I dozed of at 10 last night and depite that, this morning I felt as if I’d just closed my eyes to sleep and mom had woken me up immediately. All said and done, I was ready by 9.30 and trooped off to work.

By 11, I was having a splitting headache. I was so frustrated that I’d have readily swore at anyone who’d so much as try to talk to me. The usually cheerful and friendly me was nowhere to be seen. And poor M. He’s trapped in the cubicle with an extremely surly me. Two of my other team mates are on leave and my lead is coming in late today. So its just me and him. All attempts he made to talk to me were rebuffed. Lunch came and went. Post lunch conversation with lunch gang was extremely interesting. So much so that I had no signs of having a headache. The moment I settled in my chair, Mr.Headache happily came running back to me. Now is it work or my lack of sleep or the vaastu thats giving me the headache??

I slept like a log for 9 hours. So it can’t be “lack” of sleep.. Duh..
And vaastu?? You kidding me or what? I’ve been sitting in this very cubicle for close to 6 months now and today is the first time I’ve had such a miserable experience.

Oh, and talking of work, its driving me crazy these days. When there’s truckloads of work, I feel stressed and exasperated. Yes. But in a good way. Atleast I know what am I supposed to do and I gotta think my way through it and it’ll keep me on my toes. I’d rather not talk about my current assignment. Not that its not challenging enough, but still my brain keeps telling me it doesn’t quite like it and refuses to think and come up with good ideas. But is that a good enough reason for such a scathing attack by headache?? Naah…
And to top it all, an issue in IE was reported on my previous assignment and now its on high priority fix list… All this had to happen today…
Gawd.. Even snacks time came and went.. Still no respite. No amount of face washing is helping..
Grrrr… Fix.. fix .. fix is all thats running on my mind. If only something gives in…
If you aren’t so tech savvy, skip the next couple of paragraphs and head straight to the end.

Darn this IE.. Whoever is the moron behind this God forsaken browser deserves to be burnt at a stake in a crowded market place. Thats how upset I am with this joke of a browser. There were days when I stuck to IE faithfully. But thankfully, Firefox came along and since then there’s no looking back. I use Firefox only and love it.
Then came along the phase in life where every small assignment had to be checked in Firefox as well as IE. Why? Because 98% of the people in this whole wide world use IE. Geez. And as it would turn out, JS, HTML and the likes worked like magic in Firefox. Small errors were ignored and the page was rendered as closely correct as possible. But in IE, the whole page would look messy to say the least. Why? Because you missed a ; or a > somewhere in the code. Alright it sticks to proper programming ethics an all but for God’s sake it would make life easier for a huge bunch of people out there who like me are slighta absent minded, if only there was something like FireBug for IE.

Ok enough of ranting. After 2 hours of ogling at the code, tinkering around, cursing silently, hovering on the thin line between normalcy and insanity, I finally found where the mistake was. I’d missed a “>” [closing brace] in the code. While Firefox chose to forgive me for it, IE played this cruel joke on me.
I fixed it.And now suddenly the headache seems to have gone for a walk. I happily went out for a stroll and am feeling much better now……
Did the headache vanish because I’d fixed that stupid bug or because EOD was nearing?
Whatever……….

PS: If you have a headache after reading this far… He He.. What can I say…

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