Great post. The work/balance point particularly resonated with me. The “I will take a break after I get this bit finished” can indeed be a slippery slope.

From a technical point of view, I would be interested to see your technique for how you wrapped the grid in a thin fluent API. Worthy of its own post?

Perhaps another idea for a post could be a list of techniques/tools that you use to automate out waste. For example, Resharper – templates, macros, short cut keys, launchers such as Launchy etc. The rest of the Los Techies could add their favorites and then each item could be potentially fleshed out as a post over time, and templates, macros etc could be added to the download section?