This week at work.

I got that help thing up and running at work. It was pretty difficult. There is this tool they have that is supposed to do all the work creating and integrating the help files. I tried using it and it messed me up. It's source control took over my main project and I had to uninstall it and clean out a couple entries in the registry and then reinstall the project just to get back to square one. Took almost all of Tuesday. Wed, I finally got it working OK in the afternoon.

The thing is though, when you haven't done something like this, you don't really know how long it's going to take and how hard it'll be until you get it done the first time. Even if it turns out to be very easy in retrospect. With this particular tool, I am the only one on the team who has done anything with it in about 2 years.

I would say, that it's been my experience, that you spend a lot more time than you'd expect, or that people generally let on, grappling with some tool/interface/bs. As opposed to the more constructive, obviously useful stuff you'd originally imagined.