If I find I have to... fight through a few hours, I try to go into "research mode."

There are lots of things to research. For instance, idkfa v3 is largely a research project into the effectiveness of open source tools outside the scope of my employer's technology standardization policies, particularly in the event we need to support these types of technologies in the future.

If I had icecream coming, though... not sure if I'd be that productive.