Hi Everyone,
I'm running the risk of breaking my computer during a tantrum...... (!)
I've been tidying up data collected from a bunch of papers, trying to normalise it into formats I can use for my own purposes. I've done it before a few months ago but I wanted to re-do it now that I know more than I did then...
...But I've ended up spending the last 5 days redoing bits here, filling in discrepancies, looking up missing data in this-and-that database. Checking, rechecking yada yada yada.
I've just done another summary of what I've got and I'm pretty much where I started, proportionally. In my summary I've found more stuff that's missing, more stuff that I need to tidy. I can't quite believe it (nor do i understand what's happened).
All I know is that I'm cutting my losses and realising that it's been a remarkable waste of 5 days of my time (It's not like I don't have a million other things to do).
Not sure whether to laugh or cry. Feeling like a colossal looser :)
Please tell me you all have this "running around in circles wasting your own time" thing.
-InaPickle