lookin' good

[Janina Sajka]

Scott:

I can't tell you how often this has worked for me. Particularly, on a
large programming project many many years ago, it actually became a
reliable pattern for me. I would find myself stuck sometime late in the
evening--usually around midnight. I just couldn't figure what was wrong. I
learned to go to sleep.

Sure enough. Somewhere around maybe 4, maybe 5, I'd jump out of bed having
awakened with a start. I actually dreamed the solution. Over and over
again, time after time, I'd run to the computer and make the change.
Bingo! Everything worked. And, then, it was on to the next problem, and on
to the next point of frustration and confusion, etc., etc., etc.

PS: Lest you think I lived on 4 hours sleep, that's approximately correct.
But these were pgrogramming jags of one to three weeks--with weeks off
inbetween. Meanwhile, I would also take a nap of around half an hour
somewhere early to mid afternoon. It's the nap that actually kept me going
on this kind of crazy schedule.

Ah, the days of being free and fancy loose to just write, write, write.


-- 

				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

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