Diving Into Your Work

Where's Rube? Rube's been working on a project for the last 4 weeks. It's finally coming to an end in the next day or two, and is that final phase I like to call the "They bought it, they can break it period". It's that period after you deliver a good product to a customer, a product of which you're proud, and they come back with the alterations they've cooked togehter in some sort of internal focus group. Usually, this consists of ideas that were thrown out early in the process, and now come back. In the area of programming, this invariably consists of re-introducing behaviors you've spent long hours removing as bugs. In design, it usually consists of putting ugly things in which destroy the overall harmony of appearance.

Well, that, and freezing my balls off.  Getting your heat cut off in Germany in October is no way to live.  The words "witch's titty" come to mind.