I too work somewhat the same way. I remember one Friday afternoon in the cab on the way home from work (which we had started drinking at lunch, and it continued

I too work somewhat the same way. I remember one Friday afternoon in the cab on the way home from work (which we had started drinking at lunch, and it continued until we left). So there I was in the cab, I had a "eureka!" moment, grabbed my laptop, booted up a terminal, and bashed out some code. By the time I got home, it worked, it did what we needed it to do, and I'm there joking with my manager (who was more drunk than I) on the phone telling him about the 15mins of coding drunk in the back of a cab. Coding drunk is not for everyone, it won't make you into a super-coder that can do everything magically, but if you're like some of us, where perfection limits production, being tipsy or totally drunk breaks those barriers and allows you to just do the job.