My big task for the last 3 weeks has been to rewrite and merge the credit card charging engine in three separate codebases at work.

This is a pretty huge task - multiple migrations, special one-time pushes of data from database 1 to 2, scores of test suites, rewriting and merging models, etc.

My secret:

* wake up

* cook three eggs for breakfast

* walk the dogs 1 mile around the reservoir

* drive 1.9 miles to work

* work for 10 hours

I think that steps 1-4 don't really hamper my ability to do step 5.