As many other times, I am faced a deadline. Putting together various stuff, testing, making order into a big mess to create a line of work. This is an analysis deadline, must try, must test, must evaluate, must decide upon the way to go, must write down all decisions in the form of a technical specification. It’s nothing clear, using components which won’t work, using code which won’t compile but finally a decision must be taken.
Usually this takes place in the following way: I wake up at eight and start working at quarter past eight, I work an eat, I eat and work, sugar, pizza just to give to the brain more strength to find some more motivation to dig into the mess of bugs, workarounds, partial testing, evaluation using only a tenth of the actually required time. At midnight I still force myself to work a few more hours. Next day I will crash to sleep for a few hours during the day but then I will wake up and continue eating and working. After one month, the standard analysis period for the projects I work on, I found myself 2-3 kg fatter.
This time it’s over, I refuse with all my remaining will to trade deadlines for fat. No more, stop the eating, stop giving the life for a stupid desire for a functionality which will never be used. This time I will just say the impossible for what it is. Impossible = more time and more money but I will not accept impossible = more sugar energy bars.

Comments:

Tudor Timotin -

Great resolution Marilen! if you can corroborate that with some more biking - of course, knee permitting - that could get you back in shape. Good luck with the enforcement of this decision - NO to “jeliboane”! (a connaisseur’s definition of lots of extra sugar)

Cheers,

Tudor