When you spend your days working on code, there will sometimes be days where everything you think should work won’t, and things that shouldn’t work do. These days tend to push the frustration levels to the tipping point. For me, today was one of those days. I spent 10+ hours trying to find and fix a bug in some code that was working fine on my development machine, but just would not play nice when we moved it to the client’s server. Thankfully we came up with a solution and I didn’t have to leave it unsolved. That would have made for a sleepless night as my mind wouldn’t be able to let it go.
After some dinner and a movie, I sat down to check some emails I had ignored during the day. One email was from a lady I spoke with back in December. She had been having an issue with a WordPress theme and I made her a short video to show her how to fix it. It turns out, she had saved the email I had sent her and referred back to it in order to solve the problem on her own. She wrote me a quick note to say thanks again even though I hadn’t lifted a finger for her in nearly 5 months. That one email turned my entire day around! Such amazing power in the two quick sentences she wrote.
Is there somebody that has helped you out who’s day might be brightened up by a quick note of thanks? I can think of a few myself and I plan on writing them as soon as I finish this post. Like, now.
