What a mess. I was having trouble with loading a new game from file; it was reading all right, it just wasn't displaying. A realization dawned that I hadn't thought this through properly. Which lead me into having an idea.

Ideas are an anathema when you're actually coding—by all means have them when you are absent from the click-face, don't entertain them when you can actually try them out for real. Especially when you're struggling with some other broken thing.

Utter mess.

What's worse is that I don't have the thing under version control—crinimal negligence for a coder, I might have branched if I had been, at least I would have had a chance to go back.

I know all this stuff, and yet again, and again, I get caught in the web of my own stupidity.

It is fixable, and the idea wasn't a bad one. But I'm cracking out Hg and doing some pencil and paper work before I get stuck in again.