The good thing about bad days is the fact that at some point, you\'ll have an upswing. Today I feel like I\'ve had that day. After wrestling for weeks with a smidget of code, (smidget...it\'s a technical term...*wink*) I finally beat it into submission. (Of course, it was a bit of a hack job, but it works...).

I fully expect to have to do alot of recoding on that work once we get into some heavy testing, but now that the foundation has been create, it shouldn\'t take me weeks to modify.

There is also the feeling of dropping a ton of weight off of your shoulders as you hit that upswing. Your second wind at times may take its time to blow on in, but its cool breeze sure feels good once it does. *THAT* is something you can only enjoy after going through days on end of bad experiences, etc.

That\'s not to say I look forward to bad days, but if one can try to remember that at some point you\'ll snap the streak, it makes those bad days much more tolerable. The trick here is for me to take my own advice. The last thing I ever think of when I am in one of my infamous, and all too common, slumps is \"well, at least it will feel good once its over...\"