no plans and too much time!

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zeeko
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no plans and too much time!

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ok so i'm living in this house with a bunch of runners. i work 40 hours a week, sometimes i bounce at a bar on the weekends, i run 5 miles a day, i read, and we play board games and drink and watch movies etc. but i still have so much time. and money. I feel like i want to do something productive with my time. any ideas?

some things i was thinking= getting a bike and bike riding, a ds and playing a lot of online video games, some other way of playing video games, getting a language program and start to learn a language, get a cool tv series to watch, learn how to program?, read more books? hmm i'm out of ideas.
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Post by Scourge »

Try all of those first and then see what time you have left.
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zeeko wrote:ok so i'm living in this house with a bunch of runners. i work 40 hours a week, sometimes i bounce at a bar on the weekends, i run 5 miles a day, i read, and we play board games and drink and watch movies etc. but i still have so much time. and money. I feel like i want to do something productive with my time. any ideas?

some things i was thinking= getting a bike and bike riding, a ds and playing a lot of online video games, some other way of playing video games, getting a language program and start to learn a language, get a cool tv series to watch, learn how to program?, read more books? hmm i'm out of ideas.
How old are you?

And I'd get some courses from http://www.thegreatcourses.com and learn something. Or read.

And work out.
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Post by zeeko »

i'm searching for something amazingly fun and exciting. or an incredible skill i can begin to aquire.
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Post by tnf »

Get some practice nunchaku and get good at those.

I did it one summer. Good times.
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i'm 19 and i run college x-country and track.. i'm in decent shape :-)
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Post by R00k »

Too much free time? You obviously don't have a girlfriend then - they clear that shit right up. :p

You could learn a programming language. Programming is a pretty constructive way to spend time, also creative.
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Post by Ryoki »

R00k wrote:Too much free time? You obviously don't have a girlfriend then - they clear that shit right up. :p
Lol my first thought as well.
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Post by tnf »

zeeko wrote:i'm 19 and i run college x-country and track.. i'm in decent shape :-)
A x country running bouncer thats 19? That's got to be rare combination. Most X-C runners I knew - and I knew a lot of them - were just on the healthy side of anorexic....(the X-C culture was a big deal where I was from...I was good friends with some of the top runners in the country back in the early to mid 90s - friends of mine were in the Prefontaine movie, I know pre's college roommate fairly well...those X-C guys are an odd lot :p )

I thought you'd have to be 21 to be a bouncer...unless you aren't in the states. We didn't have 'bouncers' when I was a doorman. Pretty much everyone worked together when there was a problem...
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zeeko wrote:ok so i'm living in this house with a bunch of runners. i work 40 hours a week, sometimes i bounce at a bar on the weekends, i run 5 miles a day, i read, and we play board games and drink and watch movies etc. but i still have so much time. and money. I feel like i want to do something productive with my time. any ideas?

some things i was thinking= getting a bike and bike riding, a ds and playing a lot of online video games, some other way of playing video games, getting a language program and start to learn a language, get a cool tv series to watch, learn how to program?, read more books? hmm i'm out of ideas.
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zeeko wrote:ok so i'm living in this house with a bunch of runners. i work 40 hours a week, sometimes i bounce at a bar on the weekends, i run 5 miles a day, i read, and we play board games and drink and watch movies etc. but i still have so much time. and money. I feel like i want to do something productive with my time. any ideas?

some things i was thinking= getting a bike and bike riding, a ds and playing a lot of online video games, some other way of playing video games, getting a language program and start to learn a language, get a cool tv series to watch, learn how to program?, read more books? hmm i'm out of ideas.
dude, enjoy your free time while you have it. life kicks in shortly.
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Post by saturn »

i miss my free time.....nowadays it's mainly working, studying, sleeping, fucking.

p.s. get a bitch
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Post by +JuggerNaut+ »

saturn wrote:i miss my free time.....nowadays it's mainly working, studying, sleeping, fucking.

p.s. get a bitch
no, get multiple bitches. having a g/f at that age is ridiculous.
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Post by saturn »

dude, you married yet?
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:o nope!

don't tell me YOU got hitched.
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still engaged then :]

no man, too young to be tied
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good man good man. sounds like you're doing well.
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Post by mrd »

Get some women and learn to play guitar. That should eat up the rest of your time easily.
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mrd wrote:Get some women and learn to play guitar. That should eat up the rest of your time easily.
advice + :icon14:
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Post by zeeko »

so what is a sweet programming language?
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Post by tnf »

assembly.
I've taken C, C++, and assembly programming courses and dabbled in others.
I really did enjoy assembly - but you had to know the basics of higher languages first. Still, was really cool to see how all the coding you did was reduced to some very simple commands...

MOV
JMP
ADD
etc..
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Re: no plans and too much time!

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zeeko wrote:ok so i'm living in this house with a bunch of runners. i work 40 hours a week, sometimes i bounce at a bar on the weekends, i run 5 miles a day, i read, and we play board games and drink and watch movies etc. but i still have so much time. and money. I feel like i want to do something productive with my time. any ideas?

some things i was thinking= getting a bike and bike riding, a ds and playing a lot of online video games, some other way of playing video games, getting a language program and start to learn a language, get a cool tv series to watch, learn how to program?, read more books? hmm i'm out of ideas.
WTF?!?!?
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Post by R00k »

zeeko wrote:so what is a sweet programming language?
Get into VB dot NET - find a copy of Visual Studio. Once you dig in a little, you'll realize that you can create just about whatever you can think of, as long as you aren't afraid to keep studying.
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Post by zeeko »

i'm a mac user :paranoid: i feel like this places a limit on the kinds of programming i can do on my computer (or not?)
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Post by R00k »

Er, I don't know. If I had to guess, I'd say it does place a limit on coding - you'd have to do all cross-platform stuff, which doesn't include VB afaik.

That sounds like a question for Dave. :paranoid:
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