Mike was still stuck at work.

I was hoping to get everything done before five but the anxiety of trying to fix my bugs as soon as possible so I could go home to fuck two gorgeous women made things worse. I looked up at the clock -- five thirty. Fuck. While I compiled my code I texted Sam to give her the bad news.

Me: I'm still stuck at the office. I hope to be out of here by 6:30. Do you mind telling the girls?

Sam: np

Me: If you haven't started cooking dinner we can do take-out instead.

Sam: actually Sue offered to make dinner

Me: We're going over to Susan and Deborah's house?

Sam: no just u

Me: okay...

Sam: deb having dinner with me

Me: So it's just Catherine, Susan, and me?

Sam: yes :D enjoy!

Me: I know I will

Sam: I ♥ u

Me: I know

The compiler was done and I was still getting a runtime error. Goddamn memory leak! Fuck! I wanted to leave there and then! I was stressing myself even more and I knew I would make more mistakes under the pressure I was giving myself. I closed my eyes and took deep inhale and exhale of breaths to clear my head, taking notes from the few yoga classes I had with Sam.

When I opened my eyes again I felt like I was Neo who suddenly realized he knew kung fu. I looked the thousands of lines of code and tracked down the errant loop that kept adding new elements to an array, eventually forcing the server to run out of memory. I fixed it, recompiled, and did a test before finally submitting.

Six fifteen!

I grabbed my phone to text my wife.

Me: Finally done!

Sam: yay! do u have Sue's address?

Me: Nope.

Sam: ok i'll send u it and msg her ur on ur way

Me: I ♥ u

Sam: I know :D