10pm and on. Feeling the pleasant achievement of shaping a sharp-tongued comment on some familiar issue to ultimately just throw it away and choose to ignore that topic for now. Still not totally calm in this, but at least getting closer to a point where some things can float by more easily. (Slowly stepping forth in unfamiliar territories.)
Also: That dreadful moment to notice having addressed a person with name spelled slightly wrong in e-mails for weeks. Now, wondering whether this should be fixed or just briefly ignored and done right in the future. Both ways seem uncomfortable. Decisions decisions.
3pm and on. Of tasks and language: Trying to find better wording for environments in which bugs and issues aren't supposed to happen. Seems this is more time-consuming than actually getting rid of the problem itself. (Behavioural anomaly is what the model suggested, and maybe for that very moment, the answer has been convincing.)
Closing in on 4pm. Cautiously checking what could be fit into what's left of today. Briefly browsing through emails, picking some, feeling the joy of having an issue kicked onto someone elses side of the field and actually being able to get away with it. Complexity matters. All the time. And communication complexity doubly so.
Close to 10am, too much sun low above the buildings, and the sound of distant loud horns blown over here by an icy wind. Also: Digging into old bugs again. Incrementing the amount of fixes that have been tried but didn't actually work. Maybe most of what people consider "experience" actually is knowing which tools are the wrong ones for a particular situation, and maybe that's better than nothing to begin with.
9am and on. Another iteration, or circle, depending on ones perspective. Discovering mutually exclusive requirements is one of the more interesting fascinations of dynamically building a system with varying stakeholders. Also: Watching a group of people with torchlights navigate their way through a large and completely black factory hall. Sometimes you spot something that seems to do something. But a lot of guesses and assumptions are likely to be just wrong.
Closing in on 11am. Picking loose ends with freezing hands. Stumbling through arguments with heated minds. Briefly raising head out of the flowing day, noticing everything one missed doing in the morning, so rather retreating to where things are known to be somewhat confusing and chaotic, anyhow. A different kind of planning poker.
11am and on. Resolving tasks vs. delegating tasks. And the re-occurring pitfall: Solving things on your own is faster but will keep these on your table forever. Letting others solve things will improve a lot but involves an awful load of communication, a load of bridging difficult gaps in knowledge, experience and social skills, and overally slows things down. Difficult choice, each and every time again.