Still do it. Should know better, but I still do it. “Yep, I should get that finished by the end of the day.”

Let’s see I’ll need to write Fixtures for those tests – get something passing – extract some stuff out into production. Oh and there’s those couple of edge cases. Should be finished by lunchtime; I’ll say end of the day to be sure.

Idiot. You need to estimate tasks and add up the estimates. It’s not difficult you lazy git. Slap on back of head.

Update: after spending two minutes on a proper estimation I have 9 hours left on the story. I’ve already spent a day. Slap 2, coming up.