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.
10am and on. Navigating contradicting requirements, getting used to the perception of stumbling your own yesterdays leg. Despite all personal doings and experiences, more than just once that kind of agile flight-by-sight kind of moving forward is tedious, error prone and time consuming. Sometimes, more traditional approaches to building things surely have a sweet spot.