Ask HN: What is your morning routine?
Alarm goes off at 6.  I hit snooze 12 times until it&#x27;s about 7.  I half doze, half ruminate on why I can&#x27;t just get out of bed at 6.  The hour I steal from myself gives me immeasurable pleasure.  Around 7 I make it down into the bathroom, where I check political news for about a half hour.  I ruminate on how unhealthy my eating habits are.  I take a shower, and get out of the house by 8.  On the ride in, I try to use positive thinking to set the tone for the day, but I generally fail and focus on negative thoughts.  I obsess about whether living and working on the Internet have caused a reverse personal renaissance.  Often I grab a high carb, high fat bagel and cream cheese, and large coffee.<p>Once I&#x27;m in, I log onto here for a half hour, check reddit, and try to force myself to &quot;feel motivated&quot;.  I hop onto Lync, and the underlings tell me about drama from their mid 20s lives.  I get jealous of them and all the experiences they could be having, but they&#x27;re locked up in the same corporation I am.  We do fake smiles and get lots of coffee.  I do agile meetings and track my own progress in a little web app.  Once per week, a chart is mailed based off metrics I self assigned, to my manager and the director.<p>By 11am I start to decide if I am going to write any code for that day.  If I haven&#x27;t started, I get overwhelmed.  Lately I have panic attacks, but I have a new doctor who tells me to stop eating carbs and drinking coffee.  I lie to her and tell her I am, and then get those items on the way back from the appointment as a reward.<p>Tell me I&#x27;m not as alone as that felt