Yes, oh yes. When I actually get to work with code, it's sublime. I had a quiet day today, and I got to fix a buggy module, refactoring out into cleaner pieces,

Yes, oh yes. When I actually get to work with code, it's sublime. I had a quiet day today, and I got to fix a buggy module, refactoring out into cleaner pieces, building out a test suite to verify its correctness, shaping and molding a hairy, slapped-together piece of trash into something I may never have to touch again. On the best days, it's like code is clay in my hands, and I just sculpt it. It makes all the rest of the time I spend frigging around with customers, tracking down environmental weirdness, ttading emails, herding cats, frustrating ops work, and fighting to be allowed to actually do anything worth it. Sometimes all that overhead overwhelms me, but the fleeting moments of solitude in the IDE, bringing form out of the elemental chaos, restores me.