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[Consumer Products Guy]

What is this "spare time" you people speak of?

[JGK]

What is this "spare time" you people speak of?

I believe it's something people who "have a life" do when not working

[Schmitty]

What is this "spare time" you people speak of?

I believe it's something people who "have a life" do when not working

I am unfamiliar with either of those terms...I am also posting on a chromatography forum at 10pm on a Friday night...

[JGK]

What is this "spare time" you people speak of?

I believe it's something people who "have a life" do when not working

I am unfamiliar with either of those terms...I am also posting on a chromatography forum at 10pm on a Friday night...

I believe the following may help

How To Get A Life

It's never easy to overcome innate nerdity, a serious Internet addiction, or a hard-core computer gaming habit, but trying usually isn't as painful as kidney stones. Here's how:

Let go of the mouse.

Turn off the computer.

Play a game of solitaire with a real deck of cards.

Eat something other than taco chips.

Fart without recording it and putting it up your Web page.

Get some sleep in bed rather than on your keyboard.

Next time you wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, don't tell everyone on your ICQ list about it.

Open a window without turning your computer back on (yes, it is possible). Very gradually expose your eyes to increasingly bright light so as to avoid damage or permanent sun blindness.

When you feel prepared for a massive dose of non-CRT radiation, put on welding goggles and go outside.

If you see someone, say "Hi" to them instead of trying to make the modem connect sound.

Visit a friend that you haven't spoken to in years because they don't have an email address.

Have ".com" officially removed from behind your name. Go on a date with someone you didn't meet in a chat room.

[bert]

Hi JGK,

are your advises protected by copyright? Would like to send it to some friends of mine.......

regards Bert

[JGK]

Hi JGK,

are your advises protected by copyright? Would like to send it to some friends of mine.......

regards Bert

Feel free, I "borrowed" them from another site anyway. As far as I know it's in the public domain. I've received similar in e-mails before.

[syx]

I grow carnivorous plants (Nepenthes, Sarracenia, Drosera, Dionaea). I killed my last Dionaea...
here is one of them:

Nepenthes khasiana

[dpr]

My mid life crisis is a '89 Lotus Excel.

According to my wife it had to be a 19yr old car as I'd never have caught a 19yr old blonde.

[skunked_once]

According to my wife it had to be a 19yr old car as I'd never have caught a 19yr old blonde.

Tough choice. Either one will be expensive, high maintenance, and time consuming.

Factors to consider:

You decide when to take the car out.
Cost of gas vs. cost of food, etc.
Planning the route to show off or to avoid being seen.
Level of acceptance by wife.

[dpr]

Level of acceptance by wife.

My other car doesn't complain when I drive the Lotus.

[chemgeek]

Riding motorcycle when it's warm enough around here anyway...

I have a '06 Star Roadliner, which I like to ride long distance (touring)...

[Chris Jones]

REiding motorcycle when it's war enough around here anyway...

I have a '06 Star Roadliner, which I like to ride long distance (touring)...

My Blackbird serves well as a tourer and a trackbike.




But there will be a new trackbike soon...

[chemgeek]

My Blackbird serves well as a tourer and a trackbike.
But there will be a new trackbike soon...

I looked at the Triumph Sprint, Honda ST1300, and Yamaha FJR as well as the Rocket III, but I could not get used to the aggressive riding position for a long distance ride.

The Roadliner won out over the rocket just because of funding... Besides 1900cc/113CID is more than enough with a V-Twin, I can just imagine all the trouble I'd bee in with a 2300cc Triple (With the wife, the law, the neighbors...)

[blaise5669]

I love to spend my extra time outside with my husband- hiking, tennis, jogging, picnicking. If it's raining out, a good book on a comfy couch by a window. Volunteering with a local animal rescue group, and playing with my kitties!

[NALI]

Cycling: infinite miles per gallon. Would ride to work if I didn't think the hill-billies would run me off the two lane highway.