I think it might depend on your goals - the old, "The Journey is the Reward" chestnut.
She mentioned a couple of times that she went into the tangle because she wanted to, that she hadn't had to "bail a loom out of a major temper tantrum" in a while.
To be sure, recovering the 1 1/2 yard Shetland warp and other materials would in no way compensate 10 hours of labor - but that presumes there's nothing to learn from the process.
I want to say something surly about how accountants have driven software development to losing its soul in pursuit of dollars but ... that's not going to end constructively. =D So instead I'll just say I really admire the attitude of, "I can fix that. It will take more time than it's worth but screw the economics of it all, I'm going to do it anyway. Fsck you, entropy."
She mentioned a couple of times that she went into the tangle because she wanted to, that she hadn't had to "bail a loom out of a major temper tantrum" in a while.
To be sure, recovering the 1 1/2 yard Shetland warp and other materials would in no way compensate 10 hours of labor - but that presumes there's nothing to learn from the process.
I want to say something surly about how accountants have driven software development to losing its soul in pursuit of dollars but ... that's not going to end constructively. =D So instead I'll just say I really admire the attitude of, "I can fix that. It will take more time than it's worth but screw the economics of it all, I'm going to do it anyway. Fsck you, entropy."