Done

I am done. After weeks of work and a few bleary nights of late-night work (last night until 1:30 am), I am done.

I will now take a moment to geek out and brag about the fact that my application ended up being over 3500 lines of code (for all you non-geeks out there, this is something coders LOVE to brag about). Usually LOC brags do not impress me, but it's the only metric I have to make folks like Jeff smile with pride at my accomplishment.

I need to go to bed and pray that this sore throat I've been feeling for the last few hours does not turn into a full-fledged cold, but before that I need to explain the revelation I had working on this project about how humbling writing code is.

Many times over the last few days I would have this conversation in my head after get angry at the compiler for throwing errors that really weren't there.

"I mean really, there's nothing wrong with this code! I've gone over it three times. All those variables are spelled right. All my statements are properly closed. Maybe it's not refreshing my file. Maybe my FTP app isn't connected. Surely this compiler is broken.

"Oh wait. What about that extra open parenthesis on line 160? Sigh. Human Error. Again."

It's not the fact that I make so many mistakes that's been humbling, I knew I'm apt to do that already, it's been eye-opening to see how prideful I get about wanting to insist that I didn't make a mistake and wanting to blame something else. It's just that there isn't room for interpretation when you're up against a machine.

Anyway, I'm ready to re-join the world of people who have free time so I can work on my other hobbies like sewing, reading for pleasure, and blogging pictures of my little girl.

ps. Katie do you still think we could be friends?