Ask HN: How is your typical day?

Yesterday, woke up at 7 AM. Answered personal email, talked to sister for an hour, morning routine. Started work at 9:00 sharp, gave myself 50 EpicWin points.

Spent three hours reimplementing OKCupid's sharing bar for a client. Showed client. Client ecstatic. Used opportunity to remind client to pay me for last month. Received money, transferred to bank account. Separately, did a wire to Japan for my monthly "salary."

Broke for lunch at 1230. Returned to apartment at 2:00. Felt woozy, so slept. Woke at six, resumed work for second client. Bragging elided due to confidentiality, but I think after this engagement my rates get a new digit.

10:00, realized it was late. Went to dinner, gym. Home at 11:30. Wanted to play Starcraft but had an email from a BCC customer. Spent an hour doing a one-off feature to knock her socks off. (She works for somebody I like. It is not usually worthwhile to do customizations for an audience of one.)

After that, I would have gone to sleep, but there was a very interesting live video from CapitalFactory. Watched their Demo Day pitches. One, for Smackages, is the best I have ever seen and should be taught in rhetoric for how to deliver a persuasive speech. Seriously not joking. Get a video copy, watch it, if three lines don't blow your mind you are not watching the same video.

Then Dave McClure had a presentation. He is always funny and insightful, so I watched that, too. Went to bed at 5 Am, slept through morning, no EpicWin points for me today.