Raking Leaves and Writing Code

So, today I had the task of removing the leaves from my yard, which gave me a lot of time to think because it is a pretty solitary job, even if you have people helping you, because much of the time I was using a leaf blower.  It is pretty hard to hold any kind of conversation when you are using a leaf blower. And  as I was running the leaf blower, I was thinking about what I was going to talk about today.  And then it struck me, why not just talk about cleaning up the leaves?  I mean if John Sonmez and Scott Hanselman can talk about stuff that isn’t necessarily programming related, why can’t I? But then I realized, I could talk about cleaning up the leaves in my yard AND talk about programming at the same time. Think about it. Why Rake Leaves? Why did I clean up the leaves in my yard?  It wasn’t to make my yard look better.  No one can see my yard from the road.  No one would care but my family, and they do care.  But even if they didn’t, we ultimately clean the leaves off o