Day 9 of 1000

I work as a research engineer for a medical device company in Research Triangle Park.  I live a little over thirty miles from where I work.  If I leave home at about 5:45, it takes me about 35 minutes to get to work.  If I leave 6:15 or later, it takes me 45 minutes and a lot more driving hassle.  The commute is about twenty minutes longer than I like, but I have found a routine that I enjoy very much.  I have possibly the worst office I have ever had.  It is what most people might call a half size cube.  It is at the intersection with heavy foot traffic.  The rest of my working group is two rooms away.  My boss gave me an awesome computer, so awesome that it generates enough heat to make my cube the hottest place in the building during the steamy North Carolina summers.

Nevertheless, I love my job.  I have a great routine.  The first thing I do when I get to work is make coffee.  Then I go to my desk and eat a yogurt while I read a chapter of my bible on Xiphos.  When I finish my reading, I go to this awesome streaming radio website to listen to Bill Bennett’s Morning in America.  By the time I finish, the coffee is ready, so I have a cup of coffee and eat a granola bar while I read the news headlines and I am ready to work.  The other people start streaming into work around 7:30.  I work with a great group of very bright people, which mitigates the quality of my cube.  That and the fact that I will get a new (to me) office in a new building after the first of the year.

I cannot believe that I enjoy getting out of bed at 5:15 in the morning.  I have turned into my dad.  Life is much better for me when I have a good morning routine.