Ortswechsel: Wieder milder Morgen, viel zu dicht gewandet, schmale Wege unter den eigenen Rädern. Ringsum erwachen Baustellen, Parkplätze, Seitenstraßen, Rangierbahnhöfe und das Gleisdreieck, der ungeordnete frühe Lärm tropft in die abgeschlossene Welt eigener Kopfhörer und zeichnet unruhige Bilder, die noch im Büro nachhallen in Stimmungslage, ohne dass man sich an Details erinnern könnte. Zweiter Kaffee, Küchengespräche, Erkenntnisgewinn: Wenn man früh schon über die richtigen Kollegen stolpert, zieht man sich ein Stück schlauer hinter den eigenen Bildschirm zurück, zerknüllt manche Planung und wirft sie schulterzuckend in den Papierkorb. Geschichten von Sonderlösungen, Lernkurven und bunter Farbe auf zerbrechlichen Fassaden. Manchmal muss es wohl so laufen. Habt es mild heute!
Closing in on 10am. Rushing through the morning, like a whirlwind, stirring a lot of different things all at once, throwing some, breaking others. Now to get a big broom and solid gloves. With these fragments, there's always a good chance of profoundly cutting fingers. (And in some cases, even metaphors hurt.)
Far beyond 10pm again. Crossing common thresholds faster these days, looking back and wondering where the hours went. Still counting lines of code, still trying to match outcomes to expectations and trying to find what causes the gaps in between. The wearing-down of late days, the tiredness of early nights, the growing inability to stay up late that seems to come with the years.
4pm and slowly on. Fixing other peoples problems, at least showing the will to. At some point a good solution is what remains once you took all the tries that could fail and hopefully fix more than they break. Which only leaves it a matter of time. And patience. And some remaining hair that could turn grey in course of this.
Close to 4pm. Technical calls, fixing broken pieces, finding ways through profoundly unchartered territory again. Surprised where the path ends. Also: The painful insight that in most cases things seem to end up lost as soon as someone starts adding the label "experience" to rather profane day-to-day tasks. But maybe it needs that kind of verbal upcycling, in some situations.