I spent pretty much all my morning and afternoon doing dull data entry on a laptop, cramped keyboard and all, in a non-airconditioned room.
And then I got a slew of ungrateful, dumb, loudmouthed or just plain rude users to help in #starchat (a specific one is particularly memorable... a WebTV'er asking how to change his nick, being told repeatedly how to, just plain not listening and instead saying things like "Geez, no help in this room, bummmer" and then parting the channel, three times).
And then I spent some time making a nice long informative post for a forum, with a lot of helpful links, and then I had to tinyurl the lot of 'em because the forum has restrictions on how many characters can be in a post and splitting the post in two was not possible. Took me almost an hour to cut 5K characters off the post so it would fit.
And then I got an user in #starchat with a simple enough problem to solve, and I helped him out, and he was very grateful ("I must say the best tech help ever is here") and nicely said thank you. And that somehow made this day all worth it.
I'm a sucker, aren't I?