Shedding Some Light » Dogs life http://rickschummer.com/blog2 Shedding some light on topics of software development, Visual FoxPro, saving our planet, paying it forward, and anything else I find important enough to share. Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:55:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 The developer and his dog http://rickschummer.com/blog2/2007/04/the-developer-and-his-dog/ http://rickschummer.com/blog2/2007/04/the-developer-and-his-dog/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:35:00 +0000 Rick Schummer http://rickschummer.com/blog2/2007/04/the-developer-and-his-dog/ I shipped an alpha release this morning after working like a dog yesterday to solve a half dozen deployment issues and a huge crasher bug I found when testing yesterday. Yes, I was working like a dog. Or so I thought…

Then this afternoon I was reminded by my dog that I was working like a nutty human. The moment I realized I was not working like a dog is the moment I heard her snoring at my feet in the middle of the afternoon while I was coding like a crazy man.

I reserve the right to rethink this, but maybe in my next life I can come back as a dog who gets to sleep all the time between the moment I scare the ducks and squirrels out of the backyard, and when I take time to train the humans to throw me a rubber toy. What a life she has going these days.

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