I got to work before 8 AM today for a meeting, and that's pretty much the earliest I've ever been to work. Now I know I'm not gonna gain much sympathy from people who get to work at 8 AM at the latest, but I was still really tired.

My morning meeting was over 2 hours long, so I started it with a big cup of coffee. I try not to drink coffee, but today was an exception given the circumstances. Unfortunately, I still almost fell asleep because the meeting was REALLY boring (we were going over our company's product lines and expectations for 2005).

But the coffee definitely affected me. Usually by now I'll have had at least one 30 minute stretch where I feel exhausted, but it didn't happen today.