I’ve been programming since seven this morning - fourteen hours (with mealtimes, driving to and from work, and playing a round or two of IT game). That’s what I get when I work fixed hours and one place, and then besides that have two different freelance clients who really need something right now. It’s been like this for the past week or so. I’m finding it hard at the end of the to pull back from a world of abstractions and elegance and relate to the real world, or to people - I just want to be a hermit.

Today I have thoroughly immersed myself by turns into:

• PHP
• Java
• ladder logic