Throwing out the practices for a night.

I haven't been sleeping well. This happens when I'm frustrated with 
things, especially when I'm not sure what I'm frustrated with, and 
with a pregant wife and a national election, I wasn't too surprised 
over an hour or two of insomnia.

But there was something at work bothering me too. So I turned on VNC 
before I went home and about 9pm decided to start throwing practices 
out the window.

Some unit tests that were less perfect than they wanted to be needed 
some revisiting and refactoring, mostly set-up and tear down, and 
removal of duplication. So out the window goes pair programming and 
out the window goes Energized Work (or maybe not, after all the goal 
was to re-energize myself). So now, on the screen is a list of 
improved unit test for my pair to review the old fashioned quality 
inspection way and I'm up bright, early, and excited about going to 
work again.

I think that's what I felt was missing in Kent's except on Energized 
Work. It really did a great job of reinforcing the troubles with 
working too much, but it didn't seem to touch on the troubles with 
working too little and just feeling unproductive sometimes. Both 
impact my output/hour immensely and if I get too locked up in 
Energized Work and Pair Programming I just don't get that feeling of 
productivity that energizes me.







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