There's really nothing quite like waking up at 3am with a solution to a problem. Even better is when you test the solution and it is correct.

I woke up at 3am this morning and realized that I wasn't incrementing my section header pointer and that I was copying the same section multiple times. At first, I didn't want to get up... it was 3am! By 3:15a I couldn't stop thinking about it. So I got up, started the VPN, remote desktopped to my machine, typed in:

sh++;

compiled, and executed the program. By 3:20a it was properly iterating over the sections copying the data I needed. Waking up with the solution was hard to believe.

I fell back asleep, and got to sleep in a bit (Thanks Kristen!). When I got to work in the morning sure enough it had really happened. Usually I wake up with the solution and fall back asleep and forget about it by morning. But this morning was different, and the solution remained. Has this ever happened to you?