And Dream I Don't

But I do think, at least, in the middle of the night. Here's a sign that you've been planning things too much lately: you wake up in the middle of the night with a bright programming idea and start mentally planning how the code will go together. During normal waking hours, I've been thinking a lot more than actually coding SAFARI. But this was a new one. Sure I might wake up occasionally with a brainstorm, but rarely to the point where I'd then spend the next half hour laying in bed developing the idea.

It did, in fact, get better and better and several problems I'd been trying to figure out were resolved during this time. “Hmm… but how would I arrange the database for multiple categories without creating too much overhead? Well, if I created a separate table named categories, then created a table that showed which categories each article went in…” So many ideas inside my brain just kept popping out like that. It went on like this until I finally hoped I'd quit getting bright ideas so I could get back to sleep.

Finally I did, but not before my next few days worth of work was fully and properly hashed out. Today, however, I am tired. This project it taking over my time of rest! You go to sleep to get away from working, you know what I mean?

By the way, an extremely perceptive reader would look back on asisaid Challenge and be able to extrapolate an song title from this post. 25 points to the one who does, but it will be tough — I gotta break y'all back in. Oh, and while I'm at it, another 10 points to the person who can figure out what about this post has to do with my second IBM compatible computer. If you didn't guess, the Challenge is coming back from its forced hiatus.