I have a very standard routine in preparing myself to sit down and work each morning. It's like I need to prepare before sitting down and thinking of my desk and laptop-- which I use for more than just work being as I work from home-- as my work station. Firstly, I go through my personal emails, hopefully with coffee in hand, browse the Drupal Planet, some other blogs I subscribe to, a few message boards, etc. And then I need to find a song to get my pumped up and ready to work.
I use Pandora.com for my music. I prefer iTunes, and I even have an iPod Shuffle, but I haven't bought any music in a long time. And, of course, running Kubuntu I can't use iTunes on my computer. There's many other options. I had trouble getting Last.fm player working, so good old Pandora always works.
Skip, skip, skip, try to find a good song to get me started. This morning it's "Kissing the Lipless" by The Shins, which is such an awesome song. Hurray!