No one expresses the longing for a life once lived as Meryl Streep with, “I...had a farm...in Africa.”

My version? “I...had a coding job...in Pittsburgh.”

I'm sure fellow developers can relate at one time or other with coding and project cycles in their own jobs.   For so long I banged out .NET code, day after day, and nights, too.  Then this Sharepoint Services project came up and I'm digging it, yeah, but I haven't written a respectable web app in what feels like months!   And because I'm digging the project and involved in it, when bedtime comes I'm perfectly happy to go to bed instead of burning the latenight desk lamp to write code because I need to do something cool, as I am a contented nerd.

Except when I dream of that coffee farm in Africa...