[colomon]

For me there are definitely days when I do a lot and find myself wondering why I was unproductive at the end of the day. Generally it happens when I do things that aren't directly programming. I will find myself feeling blue at the end of the day because I haven't accomplished any useful programming. Then I stop and think, and realized I spent hours e-mailing customers and potential customers, and all afternoon working on my taxes. Not a bad day's work, but because I'm biased to think of programming as my real work, it feels like I haven't accomplished anything.

Of course, there are also days when it feels like I haven't accomplished anything because I haven't actually accomplished anything.