Refactoring - when I don't want to do something else

Refactoring.

With my hobby code, I've caught myself thinking refactoring mostly when I realise that the next chunk of code I am going to write is going to be inherently ugly or large and boring. A very good recipe which I found against that is to put the thing on the shelf for a week or two, and let the brain work in the background - the power of the subconscious "coprocessor" is very well suited for that. Usually in this kind of time frame I'd have the "eureka" moment which unlocks the process and I happily hum along till the next "bore-block".

Maybe that't the reason why I don't code for food.