I take a walk, or a nap. On a bad day I may try to work on something else for a while. Really bad days, I find that I've been reading HN or Reddit for hours, s

I take a walk, or a nap. On a bad day I may try to work on something else for a while. Really bad days, I find that I've been reading HN or Reddit for hours, serially. Sigh. My productivity is cyclical. There will be whole weeks where I'm utterly uninspired, I hate the world and it hates me, I don't want to go to work. I try reading. I try to remember that this will pass, and in a week I'll probably be a typing fiend. I also play the practical joker. No pranks, as such, but leaving little signs around for people to notice is fun. I once wrote profanity in very small letters on the bottom of a hallway-length whiteboard (people were helping with that one). If you can rope one or two other people into a joke, that's fun (creative and only mildly destructive use of superglue, for instance...).