My "hobby" is part of my profession, so my partner tolerates it quite well. I have a fairly comprehensive electronic workshop at home, and as long as the things under development don't spread beyond the door, peace is maintained! Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dominic Stratten" To: Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 5:11 PM Subject: [OT]: How tolerant is your partner of your "hobbies" > How well does your partner put up with you using the house as a workshop, > bits of electronic components getting trodden round the building, asking > her/him to RRF in the middle of the night because they are taking up too > much space in bed ;-) > > All those late nights spend debugging code instead of sitting down with your > hot chocolate and watching a good film, coming to bed muttering about > interrupts, stack overflows and "whose stupid idea was it to use page > banking". > > My ex-wife was terrible, she had no patience with my tinkering. Stuff would > get mysteriously tidied away never to be seen again. Chips would look like > they'd been trodden on, tools would be used to open cans etc. > > Current girlfriend is wonderful. She pays for my hobbies (I stay at home and > look after a child with ADHD), rarely complains, totally ignores me when I > start talking about electronic stuff and its only when she steps on > something sharp that I really get it in the neck. > > How do your partners cope ? ;-) > > > Dom > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.