So I got in on time today. Woohoo. Apparently going to bed an hour earlier helped. I do have a musical score playing when I am working. In the morning I start with some Christian songs, I like all new artists like Mercy Me, Chris Tomlin and Switchfoot and some old ones as well like Carman. I also listen to my churchs choir CDs. I think that music calms me down in the morning. In the afternoon I switch gears towards more classic rock stuff. I listen to the Beatles, Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Fresh Prince, Yngwie Malmsteen, Rage Against the Machine and a whole bunch of 80s and 90s music. I have varied tastes.

It all takes me back to college when I spent 36 hours straight writing a compiler. I had a tape player that took two tapes. So one tape was the Beatles Live at the BBC and the other one was The Jimi Hendrix experience. It played each tape and automatically flipped sides. While I was intensly programming I was guzzling Dr. Peppers and smoking 4 packs of cigarettes. It kept me awake for that long. I think I then slept for 24 hours straight after I turned it in. Ah the good old days of college. I got a 100 on that assignment. It was then when I realized I could do anything on a computer if I put my mind to it.

I think the ease of writing logic is what intrigued me most about programming. It is an easy job if you know how to do it and you can think like a compiler. However, there is stress in every job. This is all mental stress. Even my current one has it. I have written this 250,000 line program and now that I am testing I am going through every line over and over again and making sure the logic is correct. I am determined now, just like I was 15 years ago, to get it 100% correct. From the outside it does not look like I am a perfectionist, but on the inside oh yes, I will complete it.