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As an aside to the main topic...You code and build things because...you like to build things. It's fun. And creative. Other people never build things. They just sit in front of the TV and completely vegetate. They are called "consumers" (coach potatoes).
I think it's much better to be a Builder. It's a good thing!
- Grant
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I work 9-5 weekdays, and may then work on ToDoList[^] an additional 0-3 hours a night.
I often also work 3-6 hours on Saturdays, in between painting, yoga, reading and walking, and then a couple hours on Sunday evenings.
How much time I spend tends to relate to where I am in the release cycle (Pre-Alpha, Alpha, Beta, Bug Fixes), my level of enthusiasm, and how good the weather is  .
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Out to dinner with some Italians tonight!
I'm not sure what the correct etiquette is though. Should I expect bunga bunga and ask or should I politely wait to see if it is offered?
speramus in juniperus
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Just drop your keys in the bowl on the way in...
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Can't do that! The driver has them.
speramus in juniperus
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Drop her keys in as well then...do you have no imagination? 
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No, Mrs Wife is not the driver tonight. We are being driven. There will be dr[i|u]nk.
speramus in juniperus
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You are not at the same freebie as me are you?
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They said it was 'north', but I took that to be North London. That said, I did once go out for evening drinks and got home three days later.
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Ah yes, I came off the platform one Tuesday morning and we all headed into the pub off the flight at around 9am. I got home on the Thursday and I only stayed about 1.5 miles away.
I was a little bit boozy...
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Oof!
Another good work related one was finishing an all nighter at work and going out for some breakfast. In the pub. Onto another pub around lunchtime. Then the afternoon in a different pub. Back to the first one in the evening, before heading off to a nightclub. We left the club around 2 and went to a second one before hitting a titty-bar around 4. Feeling peckish we went on for breakfast in a bar.
I left around 12 to go and meet my girlfriend. She said I looked "dishevelled"... 
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That is ace.....
I struggle to go the marathon day after day sessions now. getting too old, but think I burnt myself out doing that in my earlier offshore days. Me and my 'BFF' were on the same shift together so we regularly did the 2 week sessions. The GFs were quite used to us both being in a permanent 'dishevelled' state. Amazing how a blue label smirnoff for breakfast soon kicks you back into life again 
My all time best was 19 days out of 21 days home on all-day/night sessions, this was on the weeks over christmas and new year. I went offshore on the 3rd January I think and took 5 days to stop shaking. Serious FUBAR after that stint.
Those days are thankfully well behind me now and at least a more sensible (in my books) approach is taken. Marriage, Kids, Kidney function, pickled livers all contributed to the slow down. Even this year I have stopped smoking and stopped drinking red bull. (except why someone forces me to have a couple of jagerbombs every now an then).
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My long runs are behind me too, for the same reasons. I look back to the 90's and think "how the feck did I survive?", I used to think it was funny that I could go into most of the posh bars in Budapest and the staff knew my name and my tipple of choice...
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Ditto. We knew all the staff, the owners, all the bouncers. You could wander into town on your own and be guaranteed to run into someone you know and end up on another session.
I really miss those days. The 90's just rocked!
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Monday's had a special tradition. I'd go to the pub to watch the football and the landlord would give me my bill for the weekend. You could guess the size of it by the broadness of his grin.
When it broke 100,000ft [£300] he'd be laughing his tats off as he danced around the bar to present me with the damage. I always tried to pay up straight faced and without comment. And that was only one bar!
speramus in juniperus
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What's 'Bunga Bunga'?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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That's left me a bit confused, but on balance it sounds like a good thing. I'd ask for it up front.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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As to the joke; when I heard it back in the 80s it was "bumba" (u as in put) and the punchline was "death by bumba".
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Should I expect bunga bunga and ask or should I politely wait to see if it is offered?
You should first move this post to Soapbox 
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Going to eat Moroccan food ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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The food couldn't be more rockin'! 
modified 5-Dec-13 21:00pm.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Out to dinner with some Italians tonight!
Oh, boy. The reason why Italians (and latinos in general) are known as great lovers is because Italian women are one of the toughest to pick. By the time we are 18 they've already had at least five years of hard training in love matters (you know...self confidence faking, spontanous behaviour faking, serious intentions faking, mind games, and all other stuff that gets women so aroused thinking its real).
So it is going to be difficult, my friend. Unless you have a sixpack in which case you can be "just the way you are" and dont need a character because an average woman will simply imagine it and project it over you - youll be interesting, have a sense of humor and deep in her eyes even if you are dead.
Good news is bunga-bunga is different. It is not offered, it is sold. So of all things dont forget your wallet.
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Is going Mrs. The Wife to come with you?
Does she read the Lounge messages?
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Mrs Wife is certainly going.
No, she doesn't read the lounge - TFFT
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