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09/05/2001 Entry: "Fireworks !!"

I had a crappy day at work, the sort of which is not only crappy in and of itself, but which brings harbingers of many crappy days to follow. The worst part being the exact number of days being unknown, and for that matter largely outside my control.

My advice to developers would be to not put together regression tests for your domain if lower level domains have no regression tests. Your tests end up capturing all the lower level failures as well, and you spend way too much time trying to figure out if the failure was your fault of some other subsystem.

But I shouldn't complain too much. The pain will eventually pass, and hopefully this will force some other people to put together some tests of their own for the future. Plus I always run better when I have bad days at work.

And anyway, something surprising just happened - at 11:00PM, there was suddenly a fireworks display somewhere in Washington, and I could actually see most of it. Usually when they are on the Mall, I can see about 5% of them because the FDIC building blocks them out, but tonight I could see about 65% of them. And they were good - better than the 4th of July show.