Times vary widely, but the activities are fairly typical of any given day, Monday through Saturday.
11:00 am – Wake up, process any incoming software orders, grab some toast, a yogurt, banana, or bowl of cereal from the kitchen, head back to the computer to eat while continuing the day.
11:05 am – Look over the 50-60 emails received overnight, begin responding to the most critical, easiest to answer, and the ones that have been sitting in my inbox too long.
11:45 am – Check the technology news sites for anything new and exciting in the last 24 hours.
12:00 pm – Take a look over the databases and logs from the different stores running our Point-of-Sale software. Perform any needed grooming and fix any issues with any servers or registers that have obvious problems.
12:30 pm – Begin working on one of the various programming projects I’m involved with… these days that is usually the Point-of-Sale system, in preparation for Pizza Expo in early March.
4:00 pm – Time for a break. That usually involves showering, getting dressed, checking the mail, processing any email from the last few hours, and making a quick lunch/snack.
4:30 pm – If I have any shopping or other errands to do, do that for the next little while. Back to the computer to do (you guessed it) more coding.
6:00 pm – I’m on shift now for technical support calls for the Point-of-Sale system, though I often get some rollover from the prior shift starting around mid-afternoon. Still coding when I’m not taking care of POS issues.
7:45 pm – Time for another break. Quick second lunch or snack. This is usually when the TV gets turned on to catch any evening shows I follow, but only in the background (I’m not mentally able to just sit and watch TV without doing something else).
8:00 pm - Back to coding, unless it’s Friday, in which case it’s time to start cleaning up the living room and kitchen areas for Movie Night guests.
10:00 pm – Phone calls and emails have subsided by now, so I can really concentrate on getting some good programming done. (Phone calls during the day, even quick ones, throw me off by as much as 30-45 minutes each, so my post-10 pm ‘no interruptions’ time is special.)
12:00 am – Snack break. Check tech and news sites and my email again and catch up on any friends’ blogs that have been updated. Back to coding.
3:30 am – Start to look for a good place to wind down programming for the day.
4:00 am – Really start to look for a good place to wind down programming for the day. Start thinking about going to bed. On a night when I’m at a good stopping place, this is about where I can start wrapping things up. Otherwise…
Between 4:15 am and 5:00 am – Finally getting to a point where I can really wrap up coding for the day. Climb into bed.
Between 5:00 am and 5:30 am – Scripture study if it’s a day where I can still keep my eyes open. Flip on a TV show or two or three I’ve seen a million times so I can …
Between 5:15 am and 6:00 am – Finally fall asleep.
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