In my former life as a freelance contractor, I found that reaching for a bottle at this point has much to recommend it; my usual regimen was roughly one ounce o

In my former life as a freelance contractor, I found that reaching for a bottle at this point has much to recommend it; my usual regimen was roughly one ounce of Calvados, to one eight-ounce cup of strong black coffee, per hour. I found this to provide sufficient anesthesia to do what was necessary, without closely approaching the point of being too drunk to hack the sort of repulsively godawful PHP code which necessitates such anesthesia in the first place.