Vacation Cleared My Cache But The Bugs Remain

That moment when your vacation brain fog clears and you suddenly remember why you needed that vacation in the first place. Two weeks of sun and relaxation didn't fix that legacy codebase—it just gave you enough mental clarity to fully appreciate the horror that awaits. The look of existential dread as reality sets in: "I've spent a week forgetting about that unmaintainable microservice architecture, and now I have to pretend I'm excited about 'tackling challenges' in our morning standup."