God, is it only Tuesday? I walked around with the mentality that it was
Wednesday today. Wednesday's are so much nicer than Tuesday's because
ordinarily it means half of the working week has gone, and there are
just a few short days left until the weekend, whereas Tuesday is just
one day after Monday - the start of the work week. Until recently,
Wednesday meant that I only had to make it one more day through
Thursday before I could get some extra Friday morning time in bed
(Mon-Thurs is a 5am start). My employer has recently changed my working
schedule and I now have to work a five day week (I can just hear the
sympathy comments) instead of the usual four.
Woke up at the usual painful time of 5am this morning. I was tempted
to grab an extra 30 minutes on the sofa but thought better of it in favor of a faster
commute (if I leave at 5:30am I can be on and off the HOV lane before
the restriction starts at 6am) and a better start to my day. Arrived at
the office for 6:15am, the coffee shop wasn't open for another 15
minutes, so dumped my stuff in my cube, logged on to the network and
arranged work for the day before heading downstairs for a pastry.
Played some great tunez over the headphones while writing cool software all morning. The code
just flowed from my fingers without me having to try. Lunch time
came around real fast - awesome. Afternoon was pretty much the same as
the morning.
Drive home was a little heavy, but managed to pass an hour by listening
to the only
Rammstein CD in the car. Thought: I really need to add some
extra CD's to the multi-player in the trunk. I've played my Rammstein CD
so much that I'm starting to learn the German lyrics off by heart.
Hung out with Simon for an hour while Lisa made dinner. Lisa made an Italian
polenta
dish, but I didn't have much of an appetite, so I had salad,
Simon had no trouble waffling it down. I'll catch a polenta serving for
tomorrow's lunch.
For the past few weeks I've been reading
State of Fear by Michael Crichton
with Simon at bed time. Simon and I like to read advanced books
together because books like "Hippo buys a balloon" are too
samey after the first few readings. We had read the ending of State of
Fear the other night, so tonight I regaled Simon with an article from
the latest
MSDN magazine about
Visual Studio Team System.
After Simon went to bed I caught up on some of my blog feeds. I was
very interested in the winners of the
2005 weblog awards, some of who's
blogs I read.