I have been working in the evenings to be sure to meet a deadline coming up in a couple of weeks. I felt like I was deep in the weeds until about Thursday of this week because the world of programming electronic components is new to me. This business of requiring a schematic and a multimeter to complete a project is a side of programming that I hadn’t seen before. On top of this, I haven’t programmed C++ since college, and certainly not on a project where the interesting part is over four million lines of code.

In any case, I’m beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel, but the long hours took their toll and I kicked over last night at about 8pm, only to wake up at 11pm. After brushing my teeth and changing out of my work clothes, I tried to go back to sleep, but was plagued by a good programming idea. Despite my best efforts to write the idea down and go back to bed, my brain kept working through it and I couldn’t go to sleep. I ended up working through the night until Anna woke up at 7am and am now feeling like a small elephant is standing on my forehead. At this point I’m just hoping to make it to 9pm in hopes that I don’t wake up early again.

I suppose I should consider myself lucky that my work is compelling, at least for the moment.