Typical Playing Day?
witch:
I work as a computer tutor at Polytechnic from 11am to 7pm Tues through Fri, then Saturday 10am to 4pm. I have private clients I support with IT, I often see them in the mornings before I start work or on my 'day off' on a Monday. I also study part time, currently Java programming. My son is nearly 22 and lives with his girlfriend now, so I don't have a dependant, apart from my cat.
My partner and I live 'apart together', he has his own flat but we usually spend weekends together, sometimes the odd week night. It's worked for us for seven years now. Luckily he is even geekier than I, he can happily spend an evening on groklaw, or pulling apart PCs or programming Pic chips or buiding circuitry. At the moment my lounge floor is covered by bits of computer strung together with wires, sometimes he'll add someting or subtract something but the thing still runs. :-\
I get maybe an hour or two an evening to play, but not always sims. I've had a break in this last week and played (clocked) Startopia. I'm also really taken with nationstates.net, which someone posted a link to on this board, can't remember who. I started with a Scandinavian Liberal Paradise, within a fortnight I've turned it into an iron-fisted socialist regime. :(
I can quite often do the forums from work whilst baby-sitting the computer room, if a student doesn't need me & I don't have any work, or I want a break from work, I can surf and post.
On Sunday, after the shopping, washing, cooking (big family dinner on Sunday) and so on, I usually get at least 5-6 hours play when I don't have homework. I pay someone to do my gardens and clean the floor and utilities, costs about $50 a fortnight but well worth it in time I gain.
I think I would get bored if I could spend as much time as I wanted on the sims, but because I might only get to play 2-3 times a week, it is still something to look forward to.
BlueSoup:
I've been really into nationstates lately as well. I started as a dictatorship, and have taken that to a very good level in the past week or so! Being dictator kicks ass :P
I get up at 5 or 6, depending on when I can drag myself out of bed. I work from 7.00 - 4.30 at a car dealership, and then when I get home, I catch up on stuff and play in a window for a few hours about 3 days a week.
KellyQ:
Quote from: faemidwife on 2005 November 01, 23:04:51
Quote from: DuzzyGirl on 2005 October 26, 18:53:22
Quote from: lynda on 2005 October 25, 22:16:30
. . . my husband seems to feel he will implode if I'm on the computer and he's awake and at home (he is REALLY not good at entertaining himself). . . .
He sounds like my husband!
I work from 8-4:30 p.m., which puts me home about 5 p.m. I try to get at least 1/2 hour workout in before I start on supper. By the time supper is cooked, eaten, and cleaned up after, it's usually after 7 p.m. I sit with the hubby for about an hour (give or take), then off to sims I go 'til at least 11 p.m.
I am in the same boat on the same river with y'all. JM has disparaged me over how "needy" my hubby seems to be. My hubby HATES when I am on the computer. He wants me to watch tv with him. Yeah, that's togetherness, baby! :D I need to get him addicted to a game so he'll leave me alone to sim in peace. But he thinks they are a "waste of time"
C
My husband is the same way. I keep waiting for an explaination of how t.v. isn't a "waste of time"...or at least how me "wasting" time on a game is any different then him spending 4 hrs watching some televisied football game. ???
rohina:
I work as little as possible, which means I go to work to teach my classes and then do the rest from home. Because I can. On the other hand, this weekend I have 90 essays to mark, so very little simming for me, except as a procrastination tool. My husband likes computer games in general, but not sims. He just bought me my own computer so that I wouldn't keep hogging his.
DrBeast:
Quote from: Missdoh on 2005 November 02, 03:55:12
One of my cat is really sick right now and we need to go to see the vet a few times this week, she have a lot of problem with her kidneys which works at only 20% so we have to take really good care of her, I don't know if she will survive she does not eat a lot :'(. She is 12 years old so I expected something like that would happen. 1 of my other cat is 16 years old and the youngest is almost 3 years old.
16?! Wow, she's OLD! The other sounds like a cat with chronic renal failure. Not much you can do there I'm afraid. You just adjust the food and give her a better quality of life until the inevitable comes. Then again this is just my call on this, and I might as well be wrong (shouldn't open my mouth without knowing all the facts, duh!).
I'm a vet doing my PhD on pharmacology. I'm at the research facility (sounds flashier than lab, doesn't it?) from 10:00 to 15:00, give or take a couple of hours depending on my workload. After that it's me, the 17in screen and the void! I yank myself away from the monitor to spend some time with the g/f when she comes home from Uni (she's a vet student too) around 20:00-21:00, then I play a couple more hours before finally crashing at 2:00-3:00. At weekends we get up at 14:00, watch some TV, go for coffee, then it's a marathon of gaming that lasts until dawn! I'm surprised the g/f hasn't kicked me out yet! Then again, I had clearly stated to her the fact that I'm a computer games junkie from the very beginning!
Edit: it's official, I've lost my manners! Congrats Kerry, welcome to the real world! ::)
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