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 I watch a lot of comedies, like right now. Just finished my daily quota, drinking coke and having a sandwich. Sometimes I reach for something, knock over the thermos flask, coke bottle or just drop a few drops of whatever (gravy was only once though - I was in college and my mother has not forgotten that one)
But I never neglect eating. (Not overweight though. High metabolic rate and still have the same body I had when I was in the tae-kwon-do team).
Let's make things simpler than possible.
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Pete Hannon wrote: Not enough time to cook, must work.
New job, no deadlines, good bye Dominoes 
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No one's mentioned exercise-neglect. I guess that means none of you would dream of sacrificing a single minute of muscle-burning activity just for some ol' deadline! Unless, of course, it means that exercise doesn't rank too highly around here - even with plenty of free time 
Anyway that's probably the first area to suffer when I get hectic. That, and my prescence on the CP forums...
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
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Yeah that definetely suffers, but I try not to let it because as I get more and more unfit I struggle to concentrate for long amounts of time.
At university studying Software Engineering - if i say this line to girls i find they won't talk to me
Dan
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I would have put that, except my excercise regime suffered the day I decided to pursue software development as a career option.
One day I'm in the national tae-kwon-do squad and you can't get me to stop training, the next, my training times clash with my study/lesson times and I never returned to the do-jang. It's been many years now, and the annual invitation to the national championships has been discontinued. 
Let's make things simpler than possible.
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I don't think its possible to neglect something you don't do in the first place
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Whats exercises, in fact what's a deadline 
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when you reach deadline the problem when you work for your organization and they change there requirements every second not
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it
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On the button! Not such a problem getting to the deadline itself....but 3 weeks from the date you get a whole new Product Requirement that needed at least 3 months to be developed...and they want it in by RC...
Aubrey
"Tarter Sauce" = a 7yr old's version of "WTF!"
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Those of us that are well enough organised to do all of the above before deadlines? 
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Those people don't exist
Hogan
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I haven't missed a deadline yet (mind you I've had the advantage that most of the time I'm the only one coding and the one deciding the deadlines...)
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All save personal hygiene and food are neglected. But I found a good shower refreshes and gives me a second wind after 16 hours of non-stop development. That 15 minutes of hot water pouring over me and pounding out my aches helps to rejuvenate and get me going for another 4 or 5 hours. And I can't conventrate when my stomach growls, so I do eat, although it isn't a fancy sit down meal. It's normally a ham sandwich, steak hoagie (ordered in) or a pizza (also ordered in) with a pitcher of ice tea or a two-liter of Diet Coke/Mountain Dew (anything cold and caffeinated).
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I don't have a wife, however your situation is very recognizable.
The shower often gets me waked up in the morning after a poor night sleep. I usually go to bed at set times, however when I'm working on a hard problem my brain doesn't stop working. This results in a restless night that doesn't give me the feeling I slept well.
Food does tend to get problematic too, mostly because I eat late when I have a deadline.
WM.
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When I worked over 80 hour weeks I only slept 4 or 5 hours a night but to counter act being sleepy I would get the blood flowing by hitting the treadmill pretty hard for 30 minutes every morning. I found this way more effective than caffeine. As for eating, since I was up more hours in the day I had like 5 or 6 meals although I did not spend much time preparing my meals (microwave, take out ...)
John
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I have to agree on the treadmill. I did a 3 mile run yesterday early morning pavement, and then an hour in the afternoon on the treadmill and it definitely helped my focus and concentration. Great way to get motivated and stay healthy.
Phil
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I'm not quite sure why they have two options for personal hygiene and bathing. Close enough to be lumped together surely. Unless they wanna know who's not brushing their teeth vs. not showering
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
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You can always tell when i'm coming up on a deadline. My kitchen gets cleaned, vast amounts of cooking is done, i'll shave, go out drinking with friends and family, spend lots of quality time with the wife, repair minor damage to household appliances, finish long-delayed household projects, paint, read, release a new version of CPhog, befriend the neighbors, scrub the pipes, re-arrange closets, retouch photos, write long detailed rants about what's wrong with these lazy kids today...
In short, i get more done before a deadline than at any other time. But rarely ever actually meet deadlines.
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So, in a way, you use everything that other people would neglect as your distraction from actually meeting the deadline? haha...That's the best way to do it! And it makes sense too...get everything else that's been lingering around distracting you done and out of the way, so you can concentrate on the deadline!
"Tarter Sauce" = a 7yr old's version of "WTF!"
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Will someone please tell me how to get to the voting page?
Before the site upgrade, I had a direct link. Now, nothing seems to work.
Iowa, New Hampshire, Code Project, . . .
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"How do you find out if you're unwanted if everyone you try to ask tells you to go away?" - Balboos HaGadol
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Balboos wrote: Will someone please tell me how to get to the voting page?
It is at the bottom of the home page. There is no separate voting page that I know of.
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Many thanks upon you !
Easy enough to find - how did I miss out on this?
(I'm almost tempted to use an emoticon as a sign of contrition).
Now, in deference to my 5-year stretch in Chicago: Vote Early! Vote Often!
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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Since I'm normally working on different projects at the same time all the other projects get neglected.
Don't neglect eating/wife/girlfriend, this could result in even worse problems.
tosch
Tosch
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Other projects get shuffled such that in one job I would find out which projects were truly important and which ones could be dropped all together. Eating off my keyboard has lead to purchasing a new one (to lazy to clean). Girlfriend says she understands. Note I have not had long periods of extra hours for some time now.
djj
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tosch wrote: Don't neglect eating/wife/girlfriend
Well if you absolutely have to, you could try neglecting your girlfriend, but never neglect both your wife *and* your girlfriend 
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
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