All night long (all night)

Sunday started off with a plan to work on restructuring some code and doing adequate testing to be ready to integrate on Monday. It started off pretty slowly, but around noon, I needed to get out of my room.

Under a steady drizzle, I walked north towards the freeway in search of Nova, an electronics store where I hoped to buy an SD card reader. The walk ended up taking 45 minutes and took me to a bazaar-like multistory building in which multiple vendors were selling different things like cameras, computers, parts, etc. Prices were roughly the same as Canadian prices for the most part. I picked up a USB SD card reader/writer for $300TWD ($9.75CAD), a 2GB Sandisk SD card for $600TWD ($19.50CAD) and a 5-port USB 2.0 PCI card for $360TWD ($11.75CAD). Other brands of SD media retailed for about the same as in Canada.

A flower outside a church.

As afternoon turned into evening, and evening turned into night... night turned into midnight, then turned into the wee hours of the morning, and I found myself staying up until the sun rose on Monday! I haven't done an all-nighter in a few years, but I felt alert and was in "the zone" for debugging. At work, I was able to function normally until late afternoon when I really felt the need to put my head down.

The other person who I am working with and I went to a local Pizza Hut take-out for dinner. They were made to order, so we had to wait about 15 minutes or so. Not bad, crispy crust with octopus, onions, mayonnaise, sauce, sesame seeds... takoyaki, my new flavour combination!