What just happened?

It's a great question. And the follow on question is "What does it mean about me."

I've noticed, since coming to work for Moffitt & Associates, that my general level of upset has gone up a bit. And I have moments of deep frustration.

When I notice my temperature rising, I ask myself, "What just happened?" I can almost always instantly put my finger on an incident that pissed me off. And I can see what got triggered in me that caused an angry response.

It's all very familiar territory. I'm just getting good at spotting it as it is happening and putting hte plug on it. It does seem to be a "I can't do it" conversation. When I call my competence into question, I get all kinds of upset.

Lately I've noticed a tendency to think "people are stupid." It has become a kind of shorthand phrase that doesn't mean "stupid" in the literal sense. I really don't think the average man on the street is stupid. I do think, though, that the average man on the street is so caught up in his fantasy reality that he appears stupid beyond reason!

CRAP, it's a GUI again

On my linux box, if I want to know what some application is doing, I can run that application through strace and find out every system call it makes. I can tell, for instance, what files an application is trying to read or write. And if a program fails because it can't find a some file or other, I can find out WHAT FILE IT IS LOOKING FOR.

Not so, it seems, with Microsoft and poorly written apps. LIFE SUCKS.