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I was thinking today about how much time I spend building LEGO models (My own stuff, not sets). I realized that I spend an average of at least 2-3 hours a day, every day. This includes dry periods where I'm doing something else or take a break for a (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I spend at least the same amount of time as you. Often more. I don't finish very many projects, mostly experiment with an idea and scrap it when finished. I spend a lot of time stairing intently at my collection with the intention of building (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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Acually, I spend a good deal of time pondering as well. Usually, I'll play around with a few special parts, putting some new pieces on, and taking off others, until I get something I'm excited about. Kirby Warden <inourimage@msn.com> wrote in (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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I spend 8-10 hours a day building, including planning,sorting and finding pieces and the building part.I spend the first 2-3 hours after i get up of a day(about 3-4 PM)on the internet(here at LUGNET).So I spend upwards of 12 hours on the subject of (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I spend about the same amount of time building as well. My LEGO table happens to be in a corner of the living room, and it's next to the computer desk, so I can build and chat with my wife while she watches TV or surfs the net, so I'm not (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Wow! That is the life. I have found that Lego building is almost as good as REM sleep. -Erik (23 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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Hee hee hee,if your wondering how I have the time,I'm a high-school drop-out with no job, no friends(any I do have I see every 2-3 years),and VERRY understanding parents! Gary P.S. I said I get up at 3-4 PM I am also usualy up to about 4-5AM before (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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My wife and I used to be in the same room when we were in an appartment and she didn't like how the LEGO searching noise interfered with her TV watching. Now that we are in a house, we are a few rooms away, so we visit each other every 1/2 hour or (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Before you said that, I imagined it as some sort of summer vacation. Maybe you worked at a golf course for the sunny half of the year, or something. Now I feel sorry for you. (23 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It doesn't seem to bug my wife unless she gets on the phone, and then she just goes in the other room. (...) My computer is directly opposite my LEGO table, and I have an office chair with rollers so I can just wheel back and forth. :^) ~Mark (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) My LEGO kind of surrounds the computer area... I used to have an office chair, but it broke and now I'm just using a wooden dining room chair so I can't roll and swivel as easily. Frank (23 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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To All, (...) chair (...) Heh, well, I have three rolling chairs, one for my business in the living room (Which is now in the LEGO room) one for my computer in the entryway, and one for my LEGO room upstairs. One day, I hope my wife and I can get a (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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Erik Olson <olsone@spamcop.net> wrote in message news:G7G2qv.GDC@lugnet.com... (...) Please Don't, I feel guilty for making you feel sorry for me. Build Well Gary (23 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Only in the opinion of people who don't figure out how much time they spend on their own hobbies, I think. Based on how much time people spend watching, thinking about, and talking about their TV shows, you're A-OK. (...) Well, if you're (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I create with my bricks in different phases: in certain weeks I design new MOCs in a big creativity (often half nights long, with a bottle of wine next to me). That might take nearly 8 hours a day for 5 days till I need more sleep and have to (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I use a laptop with wireless for everything but my serious programming time at home, so I just planted an extra power adapter for the laptop near my primary LEGO desk and that works great. I do find lately that a lot of my LEGO activities (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm sorry but that is not the life of a god. I don't want to judge you without really knowing you at all but what you just described is what I've grown up to know as a dead-beat a-la Jerry Springer Style. You have no plans for your life but (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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Tim Culberson <t_c_c@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3A6AF4D3.FC30CC...hoo.com... (...) Yeah I know,I was kidding. (...) Well then don't (...) Thats hitting below the belt. (...) Actually I am going to be an aircraft pilot (...) That would (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Too many people these days think freedom without responsibility is a *good* thing. Nothing wrong with taking a bit of responsibility, Gary. ROSCO FUT: lugnet.off-topic.debate (23 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I did meen that statement as a joke,I do have LOTS of responsibility. One more statement I need to make is that there 9 monthes of winter here and about 6-7 hours of sunlight every day,I'm a lot more active in the summer. I currently have what you (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Ross Crawford <rcrawford@csi.com> wrote in message news:G7LMos.7no@lugnet.com... (...) What does 8?) meen? Gary (23 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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blessing <blessing@icefog.net> wrote in message news:G7JyBw.3IJ@lugnet.com... (...) and (...) Just trying to relieve the boredom a bit Gary. 8?) (...) ROSCO (23 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) A smiley that has glasses and a large nose? (as in he's sticking his nose in and peering around??) ++Lar (23 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Larry Pieniazek <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:G7MB1C.2o2@lugnet.com... (...) in (...) 8?) (3-d version of :-) ROSCO (23 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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