I am a depressed little php monkey

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Work is a chore. Even when you are doing a thing that you really enjoy doing, doing it for someone else can make it seem like the last thing you want to do.

I love coding. It's a ball to create something new, and every time I do something on my site or another that makes a few lines of code do something nifty I get a little pang of joy in mah heart.

The big problem here being that most of the projects I'm working on end up being unyeilding tweak jobs. Fix this here, that there. Grind, grind... There is no sense of satisfaction until the site/project/chore is done, and instead of burning me out on that job it tends to burn me out on coding.

So I find myself in somewhat of a situation. I really want to work on something involving the site as a fun aside to the work I'm doing for pay. Sort of a coding break to keep things interesting. A way to find a happy little oasis of fun in the middle of the great desert of work. I'm going to try this out for a while, saying to myself for every 8 hours I work on a normal project I'm going to put 2 into something I think is neat. If it works for Google who the hell am I to argue?

The big problems with this being to actually keep to this schedule. Not spending 10 hours on my fun thing and 2 hours on the work. Not working straight through without any fun. And definately not sitting in front of my computer reading Google News and del.icio.us/Popular while I should be working.

Now to figure out what to play with...

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