August 01, 2003

Zombie Programmer

Man am I tired.

In the midst of my effort to not overcommit myself, I agreed to help some friends with a dance studio opening here in Irvine. Given my current work situation(s), I'm not sure what I was thinking. It seemed like a good thing to do at the time.

Wednesday night I worked until 2am, finishing site layout and packaging it into a simple little PHP content management system. Man PHP is simple. I think PERL was a little jealous.

Thursday after work our friends came over w/ all their ideas, content, schedules, images to scan, etc. The timing was key for her, the website needed to go live 8/1. She had prepared to resign from her current studio today as well. Also, auditions would occur 8/15, which was coincidentally her final day with her old studio.

We worked through the night plugging content in, formatting, and writing more content... We'd long since reached that punchy stage of over-tiredness when 6:20am rolled around and with a final flourish of FTP commands the site was live. We joked that it was just in time for the "east coasters" coming in and hitting up the website. We thought we were hilarious.

Of course promptly after launching the site, it was my normal wake-time to get ready for work. I did make it in to the office in time for the Friday morning breakfast run..., April walked into my office as I started to doze off -- sitting in front of my PC, hand on the mouse. Gah... pretty embarrassing.

Despite the coffee, same thing happened a couple of more times on Friday, almost falling asleep at the wheel, er mouse. If anyone walked into my office while I was dozing, they were polite enough to quickly back out.

Posted by ben at August 1, 2003 08:55 PM

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What, not gonna pitch the actual site to us? URL?

Posted by: Josh at August 3, 2003 07:32 PM

Sheesh, allright. I added it.

Posted by: Ben at August 4, 2003 09:09 AM

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