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[randomdreams]

I went back to work today.
At about 14:00 I came to the conclusion that I really only had about 6 hours of work in me for the day.
But I did get a bunch of stuff done. I scared all my coworkers with my coughing, for one. That was nice: people didn't ask me a lot of questions and generally stayed away.
That gave me uninterrupted time that I needed to write the beginnings of a graphical analysis package for waveforms I'm acquiring off the oscilloscope. We already have similar packages, but they don't do what I need, a mixed-signal problem where I have to interpret serial digital data and use that to decide where to look at analog waveform features.
It's complicated, and probably a big chunk of why I only had six hours of work in me today. I'd already written the outline of it last night, but getting it working with actual data was tricky.

Comments

[basefinder]

I'm glad to hear you are back among the functioning.

A scary cough does come in handy.

[darkoshi]

When I go back to work after having been on sick leave and/or working from home due to sickness, having a bad cough sometimes seems both good and bad. Good as in "see, I really have been sick! Maybe I should work from home for some more days after all". Bad as in can't breathe and embarrassed to be making noise and possibly spreading germs, and darn I thought I was over the worst of it by now.

6 hours of complicated stuff is pretty good for having been sick.

[secretagentmoof]

Whenever I had decided that I wasn't being terribly productive, and it would be better to just give up and go home and try for better tomorrow, I got looks of wonderment from my younger coworkers as if to say, "You can... DO that?" Yes. Yes, I can.

[amaebi]

That does sound as if you're getting better. I hope so.

[amaebi]

How are you now?

[ranunculus]

Glad you are slowly clawing your way back into the land of the living!