Finally re-discovered the joys of productivity these last few days. Thursday morning I woke up realizing that I had read a lot of neat websites, posted a couple of good entries to my blogs, futz with the TechFed wiki, answers lots of IMC support emails, and chatted with lots of neat people on IRC, but I had nothing to show for the week. Nor last week neither.

But many lines of code, odds bugs, struggling with Pair’s idiosyncrasies and long phone calls, I’ve finally wrapped up my paying contract. Its been dragging on for months; first they were flaky, then I was back East, then they were traveling, then I was at Ruckus, etc…

Some things I’m (re-)learning about myself, and self-employment are.

  • I don’t work well on the road.
    I can keep my basic communication obligations from the odd coffeeshop, borrowed net connection, and occasional Kinkos. Especially the awful boring code hat pays my few bills.
  • Coding requires more caffeine.
    A cup or two staves off the headaches, but its takes more then that to reach the anti-meditative state where I can I really crank. At Palm I never had to face up to this reality, the coffee pot was never empty, and no one said, “Wow! I’ve never see someone go through a coffee card in a single day”

But now its done. And I can get back to fun projects, and figuring out if I have time to go to Seattle and help organize for the September NAB meeting before heading back to NYC for Jasmine’ birthday.