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1. Go to bed
2. Read a book
3. Ask a girl on a date (it’s way too late at night, so it’s not a good idea, but technically it’s something I could do)
4. Drink some water
5. Go running around outside (too cold)
6. Eat ice cream
7. Work
8. Chips with cheese melted on top is good anytime, anywhere.
9. Write a list of things I could do and listen to Christmas music*. Oh wait, that’s what I’m doing.
10. Practice interpretive dance moves in my room to Enya’s Wild Child song.

Confession time! I’ve spent a lot of time on #10. I kid you not. One of these days I’ll get the VHS video I made and put it up for all to see.

* I’m listening to Swingin’ the Season by the Boilermaker Jazz Band. It’s the first real lindy hop-able Christmas album I’ve heard. The Boilermakers are awesome.

42. Not only is it the answer to everything, but it’s also the number of times you have you said “I don’t have time to read books.”

Okay, maybe you haven’t said that, but you probably know someone who has. I do read books, but I’ve also been known to wish for more time to read.

And then I go read blogs and/or email for 3 hours.

Thankfully, other people have this same problem. What happens when you have a problem that many people have? Someone comes up with a cool solution.

We created DailyLit because we spent hours each day on email but could not find the time to read a book. Now the books come to us by email. Problem solved.

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If you dance a lot, I highly suggest recording yourself and watching the videos. You can learn a lot from watching yourself. I’ve been aware of this for a long time, but I rarely put forth the effort to record myself. This past Friday though I was lucky enough to have someone else do the recording. So here is a video of myself dancing with the wonderful Karen:

Watch yourself, and learn. This, of course, not only applies to dancing, but to pretty much everything. Take a step back and look at your work. One of my favorite things about being a programmer and having other programmer friends is that we get to show off to each other what we’ve done (well, we could show it off to other people, but non-programmers just don’t get excited over things like “check out this sweet code, I reduced 20 lines of code to just 3 and it runs way faster now!”). Don’t allow yourself to get discouraged at what you are not. Look at your accomplishments and then pick one thing to work on and then when you’ve done that, go tell somebody about it!

P.S. Don’t bother looking for the other 41 dance tips on here. I don’t think I’ve posted any others. I just figured #42 sounded better than #1. Also, 42 is the answer to everything.