HONEYDEWYEAHYEAHYEAH

[Tom]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtcL96CDJf8

[Mr. Analog]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtcL96CDJf8

YEAH-EE-AH EE-YA EE-YA YAH-HAH
YAAAA-EE-YA EE-YA YAH-HAH

what's goin' on

lol

[Lazybones]

Every time I see this thread title the song starts in my head.

[Mr. Analog]

Same. Gotta change my icon later lol

[Tom]

Just need to keep bumping this thread 

Also, incase anyone missed it, that last link was to the 10 hour version

[Lazybones]

Just need to keep bumping this thread 

Also, incase anyone missed it, that last link was to the 10 hour version

Should start that on low volume and leave it running in the office.

[Thorin]

Right, something you have to do.  When I hear people talk about timesinks, what I really hear is that they spend too much time on it and don't do the things they have to do.  Like watching youtube videos all day instead of writing code to get paid - I would consider youtube a timesink in this case.  As opposed to watching youtube videos instead of going for a walk - this is a choice between two leisure activities.

[Mr. Analog]

Exactly, the key is choice.

Being aware of how you want to use your time is HUGE

The one thing you shouldn't do is beat yourself up over making the choice though, make the choice, enjoy the consequences (good or bad). It's in the past now and unless Doc Brown shows up all you can do is learn from it and adjust future decision-making.

[Darren Dirt]

I guess what I'm trying to say is you are the master of infinite time, you choose how you spend it and if you want to, change it.

I've had a real problem with this off and on and ultimately it doesn't matter. One of the things I worked out with counselling.

Totally. But remember you are not a Family Guy. Some of us are, and it most certainly impacts time, priorities, etc. Not saying I'm unhappy, just that happy comes from places that it never used to (and thus the "used to" places are taking up less chunks of time).

[Tom]

Being a family guy has nothing to do with what he's saying. It's all about choices, priorities, and free time (what little of it there might be).

[Mr. Analog]

I guess what I'm trying to say is you are the master of infinite time, you choose how you spend it and if you want to, change it.

I've had a real problem with this off and on and ultimately it doesn't matter. One of the things I worked out with counselling.

Totally. But remember you are not a Family Guy. Some of us are, and it most certainly impacts time, priorities, etc. Not saying I'm unhappy, just that happy comes from places that it never used to (and thus the "used to" places are taking up less chunks of time).

I knew that was going to come up eventually. Like I have nothing to do ever, one of these days I'll meet all the people that cook, clean, shop, volunteer, manage personal projects, collaborations and sell artwork online who hide around here haha

Having more external pressures means managing time becomes a lot more critical. It also becomes a lot more important to make room for some guilt-free personal time.

Speaking of which, time to make some lunch and relax with another episode of Let's Starve

Being a family guy has nothing to do with what he's saying. It's all about choices, priorities, and free time (what little of it there might be).

Exactly!

[Mr. Analog]

Also for the record I didn't mean to single anyone out, this is just something that's been on my mind for a few months and I was finally able to get over it for the most part.

So I have a lot of passion for this subject right now I guess

[Thorin]

Having more external pressures means managing time becomes a lot more critical. It also becomes a lot more important to make room for some guilt-free personal time.

Right.  What he's saying is he has more external pressure therefore has to manage his time more critically.  As a result he has less personal time and thus chooses to avoid activities that he expects he will engage in for too long, and that thus would spill out of his personal-time timebox and into his external-pressures timebox.  A key point here is that he expects keeping up with all those videos will take longer than the amount of time he has available in his personal-time timebox, and that he does not expect to be able to stop himself from continuing with interesting youtube videos when his personal-time timebox has ended.

Now as for being a family guy, there is a completely different repercussion if watching youtube videos causes you to miss picking up your kid from school than if it causes you to miss cleaning your bathroom.  This is why parents feel like they have less time; not because they necessarily have less time, but because the things that encroach on their time can't be as easily ignored, put off, or pushed into a later timebox.  I would say the same is true if you have pets.  Tom, for instance, couldn't let youtube video viewing push feeding the cat into next week.  Heck, even taking care of plants has some urgency.

Anyway, you and Tom are saying it's about free time, Darren is saying he doesn't have enough free time to keep up with the amount of videos he'd want to watch if he started following particular youtube channels.  Thus he doesn't follow those youtube channels.

[Mr. Analog]

Mmm what I was hearing was a lament that he was already spending too much time, which is something you can control.

[Thorin]

So he's lamenting that he's spending too much time and not sticking to his allotted timebox, and then you bug him about not letting himself do something that would be enjoyable.  But he doesn't have time to do that enjoyable thing.  So what was the problem?  That he called that enjoyable thing "wasting time"?