Finding Solutions

Early last week, I ran into a problem at work. A co-worker and I had spent 2 and a half weeks writing a program for our current project. It was finally working, finally flawless. I put that program out on one of our company servers, and it stopped working.

This was an unpleasant turn of events, to say the least. I worked on troubleshooting the program for a solid day and a half. After many failed attempts and stressful moments, the program suddenly started working with no apparent change on my part.

Now, I can update / modify / change the program however I want. It refuses to break. It just started magically working, and I have no idea why.

Middle of last week, I was working on a "delete" function to remove some data. The silly thing would only delete about half of what I wanted. I couldn't figure out why.

I spent a solid day and a half troubleshooting my "delete" function. Suddenly, with no apparent change from me, it started working.

I don't know if I actually produced anything of value last week, or if valuable stuff just kinda "appeared" around me. Am I a producer, or merely a conduit? Hard to say.

I do know this, however. The next time I come up against a screwy problem at work, I'm just gonna take a nap. I have confidence that my incubation time for a solution is about 36 hours.

If you see me asleep at my desk, I'm actually hard at work.

BONUS: The polar opposite of what I've just described...