Watching the dog poop

[stomachmonkey]

I'm talking to the wife and giving her some insight into my work/thought process.

Been sitting here pouring thru 10,000 lines of friggin code trying to fix a problem in a clients shopping cart back end. (Fixing code you did not write sucks.)

So I've been at it for awhile and think I have found most or all of the dependent stuff to change but now I need the info to "gel".

So off I go to POT for some "mindless" activity because I find when I stop thinking about stuff the solution presents itself.

So the wife says, "like when you used to watch the dog poop"

I used to come up with the most elegent solutions to my most complex problems when I'd go out for a smoke and the dog would come with me. She'd squat to take a dump and I'd have an AHA moment.

It's been a year since we had to put Dakota down. I miss her.

Scott

[legion]

I'm the same way. I'll take a walk when I'm at a mental impasse. The bigger the problem, the longer the walk.

[red-beard]

I'm sure we can find someone here to take a dump in your yard, if it will help...

[Jeff Higgins]

My dog never lets me watch. She makes me turn around.

[Aerkuld]

The dog probably thinks well at that point too.
Doesn't everyone think up good ideas when they're backing the big brown Cadillac out of the garage?
Similar sort of thing I guess - no other distractions.

[dennis in se pa]

I too am a dog person. They are never really gone. And the problem resolution tool you refer to works quite well for me. Let it go - it will come to you.

[Z-man]

So you're saying that reading PPOT is like watching a dog poop?!?

-Z

[Nostril Cheese]

I wiped my ass with a sock today