I had the opportunity to do two sessions of pair programming today. One with Brian Pepin the other with Randy Kimmerly (blog is *very* out of day). The two sessions where very different...

With Brian I was learning a bunch of new stuff, trying to dig into Brian's new project. Learning about Cider and the infrastructure they are building. Super interesting stuff. I was coding, primarily, and every once in a while Brian would shout "Move a cheek" meaning that I should step aside and let him code. It was super intensive learning on my part, and very cool output. I could barely leave work after the session - i wanted to just keep coding.

I headed over to Randy's house for Lumines and light (sometimes) drinking. Randy was jonesing to work on his project, and we ended up doing pair programming again. In this case we were trying to integrate some of my code into Randy's project. It was interesting, Brian is *way* more patient than I am, I pushed Randy aside far more quickly.

Both sessions were amazingly fun, very reminiscent of my sessions with Don. I really enjoy this type of work, the two people feeding off of each other, swapping in with new energy. Just amazingly fun.

What amazes me - this is my job!

I love life!