I was debugging an issue yesterday, but I could not fix it.
From the start, I knew the problem failed in an API call written by some other team. I traced through the unfamiliar code stack and determined the problem was that I couldn't write to a given database. But the settings on the machine indicated otherwise. So, it took me all day, and I was still stuck.
Because I couldn't perform at work, I was in a bad mood.
Apologies to my wife. The bug screwed me up.
Update
I subsequently found out that the problem was a deprecated API that was no longer supported in my test environment. It was as if I was trying to figure out why a webpage was rendering poorly on Internet Explorer 6 on a Windows NT machine.
After I discovered this, it just didn't make any sense to try to fix this problem anymore. So, that put an end to my debugging. All in, about 7 hours wasted, but now I could at least move on.
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