Work was pretty tough this week. The code for the original concept is there, but it just breaks and barfs all over the place. I'm happy with what I accomplished, but I recognize that there's a lot more polish work to be done.
But I'm not starting that polish work right away. Polish work is best done with a fresh brain and and fresh set of hands. So I plan to do what it takes to freshen up. For starters, I ran 3.25 miles in just over 22 minutes. While this isn't speedy by my old standards, it is the fastest and most composed run I've had since... who knows. I originally planned to go easy, but I kept increasing the pace because I couldn't feel anything. I definitely felt something at the end of the run. It might've been my lungs collapsing.
Then there was this huge block of time I completely lost. I didn't waste it, I didn't *do* anything. I just felt like I blinked and 4 hours elapsed. I didn't feel bad about it, but I do wish that I had spent that time being a vegetable.
I wanted to work on my pet projects, but instead I just laid on the carpet. Around 2am I woke up with a sore back and all my limbs fuzzy and asleep. I tried crawling into bed, but I was too awake to fall back asleep. By then, everyone had gone offline. I was planning to call it a night, but I saw a comment on my technical blog that woke me up some. It was written by a guy whose work I really admire. I had planned to use his code and software in the future. Since he wrote a comment about it, I got excited enough to take some action. I spent about 2 hours reading through and figuring out his code. I think it's very clean, and had I not been so tired, I probably would've figured it out sooner. Maybe when I wake up I'll try some more stuff, but my eyes are starting to hurt and I can't organize my thoughts anymore.
Tomorrow should be fun. Hopefully I'll wake up early enough to enjoy some of it.
