Typical Techie Weekend.

[klenard]

Not sure if this has been started before....but who cares i am new.

What is your typical weekend, since it is friday and all......

Mine:

Mow Lawn, Water grass, study....study...study, fart around on computer, stress out about upcoming work week.

[CobraTekMax]

Getting ready to head up to check out the strip clubs in West Virginia with my boss, then I've got to be up at 7:30 tomorrow for a cabling job. Probably get sloshed tomorrow afternoon, then go to a rave tomorrow night. Sunday I'm going to a computer show up in Chantilly, then stopping at Hooters in Manassas for dinner. Except for the computer shart part, that's my average weekend in a nutshell.

[klenard]

you lucky , lucky man.

[shawnMt]

1 word: FOOTBALL!! NCAA all day and night tomorrow, NFL all day Sunday http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smile.gif

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[WinKrushR]

Here we go:

Saturday:
*Sleep 'till noon
*Work out while it's hot
*Rake pinestraw, mow front lawn
*Finish new section website
*Update old crap on website
*Watch FSU vs. UNC, if it's on network TV
*Rebuild my MP3 server

Sunday:
*Wash & wax the Blazer
*Rearrange my Fantasy Football team
*Nap
*Couple hours of graphic design
*Nap
*Try not to think Law Enforcement or Civil matters
*Nap
*Rent a movie and fall asleep watching it
*Stay wired until 3 and post in forums nonstop

Exciting, eh?

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"What would anybody want with a blind dog?"

[NeuromancerIV]

I go and cook a piece of raw meat over a fire..and read by candle light! and pretend technology doesn't exist till Monday! LOL.

Actually the weekend helping a buddy and his wife move..and conducting later that night our own version of "IRON CHEF"...
tonight's theme.....pork chop battle! can Iron Chef Pennslyvania defeat his arch-rival Challenger Southern Fried?

[MAYHEM]

Every Saurday, Counter-Strike LAN party. Nothing like shooting friends and family to blow off steam after a stressful week of customers.

Every Sunday, clean up after LAN party, then relax, surf the web, read the news and sleep.

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Who the hell is General Protection and why is he messing with my comuter?

[Revenant]

This Saturday: work. get home watch olympic highlights.

Sunday, Get certified for riding ATV's, all for free... All day class, not my ATV, Not my Gas, and no charge... hmmm... I think I'll go...

Monday: look for new job. http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smile.gif Something in the area of beating my head against the wall. Oh wait, that's what I already do...

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[AlienDyne]

Saturdays: Unfortunately, I work on the morning. Then I get some rest and go out.
Sundays: I use to sleep till noon!!! Have some lunch and watch my favourite sport: F1-racing. Go Schumi!!!
Then again out! There's a whole week to come..


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"Matter is passive. In spite of its power, it can't be controlled without the human mind." Sokrates

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[This message has been edited by AlienDyne (edited September 16, 2000).]

[3fingersalute]

I wake up very early on weekends. I hate to waste my free time. I went in to work this morning at 6:00 even though I'm not scheduled to finish a customer's computer I promised for Saturday. After that, back home for eggs and bacon w/the wife and kids. Then off to take my CDL test so I can get a job that don't involve computers.

The rest of my weekend is spent with my family of 5....they are what keeps me out of trouble!!!

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[MAYHEM]

AlienDyne, I too am a huge F1 fan, and an even bigger Ferrari fan. Therefore I like to see Schumi win. Is this the case with you or are you a Shumi fan only?

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Who the hell is General Protection and why is he messing with my comuter?

[TrackMan]

friday night- either party, chatting to long distance friends online, or doing homework

saturday- cross sountry practice in the morning http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smile.gif homework in the afternoon http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/frown.gif

sunday- work untill 5, then finish homework

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I was going to be a procrastinator, I just never got around to it.

[RoboG4]

Friday - think about doing EE homework
Saturday - think about doing EE homework
Sunday 10pm - do EE homework

[AlienDyne]

Yes, MAYHEM I'm a Ferrari fan too.
In fact, I love F1. I used to watch F1 GPs since the early '80s. When Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna used to win almost every single race.
I was just a kid, but this sport charmed me.
Indianapolis GP is coming next Sunday.
Hope Schumi will win this year's world championship...


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"Matter is passive. In spite of its power, it can't be controlled without the human mind." Sokrates

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[Renée]

My typical weekend is doing assignments for school (full-time job + full-time school = no life). Of course, I always have time for a little NFL on Sunday and a few good mp3 downloads and CD burns to get me through the next week. My husband's been good enough to spare me the housecleaning and yard mowing lately.

Thrill a minute, eh?

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[FU_MAN]

Friday night. Have a few cool ones and unwind.
Saturday, go on date, party, score.
Sunday, go on date, party, score.
Monday, wake up, realise that it is noon Saturday and all was a dream. I am so boring!!

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[puterwerx]

Time off? Weekends? You mean there are such things? Being self-employed usually means that time off is when and where you make it. A nice cold beer at 7am Monday is good enough for me. Other than that, it's all work and no play.
Geez, now that it's in print it seems like a terrible waste of life.

[paraflyer]

Friday night: get home, eat dinner quick, take out the powered parachute and go flying.

Saturday, morning: Go flying again, then breakfast at the local aviator's diner.
Afternoon: Yard work, etc. Evening: Play LAN games on PC with the family, usually System Shock 2, Freespace....kidz go to bed at 8:30pm, then have fun with the spouse.

Sunday morning: sleep in. Go shopping for the week's groceries, or go the local farmer's market. Afternoon: Play on the PC again. Evening: Take out the PPC and go flying one more time before the work week.

Who needs a flight simulator when you can do the real thing?

[Danrak]

Friday- Stop by a friends store for a hour or so, go home eat, relax.

Sat - Be at work at 8:30, get sent home at 11:30 due to power being out for last 45 minutes due to heavy wind/rain/lightning from possible hurricane heading this way. Stop at friends store again stay for about an hour. Go home take a nap. Get up working on computer. Go bowling and drinking from 9pm-1am, get shot down when asking for digits from a lady.

Sun - Recover from last night, re-arange home office, watch simpsons.

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[Indigo]

Friday: Come home, Play Asherons Call for 3 hours..3 Beers later... Watch a movie with my chick.
Saturday: Sleep in. Play Asherons Call for 5 hours. Go out to dinner with my chick.
Sunday: Play Asherons Call for 4 to 8 hours. Do laundry, go shopping. Eat dinner and watch a movie with my chick. Seems like a pretty good balance. I have a 35th level Sword/Life Mage on Leafcull..@tell me and say "Hail"....sometimes I throw CS into the frey...

[Sckott]

I'm an audiophile. I just bought a Rega Plantar 3, a great turntable. I'm always listening to music, so dammit, I bought one! Listening to an MFSL copy of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon" cranked up with coffee and a book - - wonderful.

On a sunny day, the beach is a walk away. I live on Cape Cod. Gloat, gloat.

-Sckott

[SavagePenguin]

Weeknds change. Here's what I did this weekend:
Friday I evening my wife and I went sailing with some friends who have a sailboat. (It gets pretty darned cold when the sun sets. Dark too. Not a lot of wind either. Kind of eerie. I'd only been sailing with him once before, and that time we got stuck in the middle of the lake with no wind... in the rain.)
Then my wife and I went drinking at his place. Last time we both passed out on the floor so I did not drink much this time.
Saturday I got up at 7:00'ish. My wife went out shopping with her mom. I used the free time to *finally* network our computers and set up Internet Connection Sharing. I also mowed the front & back yards, did a little fishing in my pond (two bass strikes, but I didn't land them), and played with my puppies.
On Sunday I got up at 11:30am, bought junk at Wal-Mart, and painted the dog house I had built two weeks ago. After that my wife and I went to her parent's house for dinner. My wife is a vegitatian, so I like it when he mother cooks because I get to chew on dead animal. Mmmmmmmm!
When we got home that evening I trimmed the bushes in the yard. I cut through a juniper with an electric hedge-clipper and cut open what looked like a pine cone. Then dozens of wasps started pouring out of it. I ran into the house, but oddly enough the wasps were pretty calm. I think the cool evening air had some effect on them. Anyway, I sprayed them with Raid and continued trimming the bushes.

That was my weekend.
Oh yeah! One more thing worth mentioning...

I watched a documentary on dangerous bugs (scorpions, black widows, disease-carrying mosquitos, etc.) on Saturday, and Saturday night I stopped in my track on the way to bed because I thought 'What if there's a scorpoin on the floor?' I laughed at my TV-induced paranoia and continued to bed.
Sunday night my wife called me into the bedroom. She found a scorpion on the floor, in the same spot I had stopped the night before. Weird coincidence, eh?

I'd heard in an email chain-letter than scorpions will sting themselves to death if you pour alcohol on them. I tried vodka with mine... didn't work. So I put some Jack Daniel's mustard on... nothing. So I washed it and stuck it back in the vodka cup... BINGO! The little bugger kept stinging himself in the head.

Gaw... I have no life.

[brew12]

Jam out on Guitar, ride in the heat of the day and beer and football on Sunday!

[brew12]

Jam out on Guitar, ride in the heat of the day and beer and football on Sunday! Low tech!

[Fig]

My Weekend (my choice): Friday Play Everquest till the sun comes up monday then go to work (Real casters sleep and eat while medding)


My Weekend (wifes choice): Rush early sat. morning to get ready for wedding (she is in it) ... run frantic women around town all day getting this, dropping that off here.. ect. Get wasted at reception.. help clean up (3 AM).

sleep till noon Sun. Be social and show up at friends BBQ . Drunk again .. Lucky no clean up this time..

Go to work monday while wife sleeps in :-P..

of course the second was what actualy happened.. oh well killing brain cells is Almost as fun as killing MOB's

[jbar1]

Weekends? Days off? Humm.. Thought I knew about all the new Hi-Tech toys. What ever they are I must get one or two of them.

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If life is a bitch then what is death? I believe I will take the bitch!

[Hlodh]

Well, the weekend's already happened, so here we go:

Friday: Go out on blind date with gorgeous woman. I haven't dated in as long as I can remember. I act like a goon, spoil everything.

Saturday: Feeling sorry for me, my buddy invites me to try again on a double-date this time. I don't drink. We go to a brewery. I act like a goon again because I don't have anything to do.

Sunday: Sleep until noon, feel sorry for myself, download the new Radiohead album.

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[klenard]

Originally posted by klenard:
Not sure if this has been started before....but who cares i am new.

What is your typical weekend, since it is friday and all......

Mine:

Mow Lawn, Water grass, study....study...study, fart around on computer, stress out about upcoming work week.

I was able to divert from my boring weekend plans and i went and adopted a puppy-dog.

now my life is complete......... http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smile.gif

[Kit]

I take old 486 and P-1 machines out behind my house and shoot them with my .44.

Then I drink large amounts of beer and pee all over my boss's house.

Then on Monday, I start looking for a new job! http://www.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smile.gif

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[WickedTech]

Saturday: Sleep till 11, hang out with girlfriend, think about doing homework, do dinner/movie w/ some friends, play everquest (Tallon Zek server) till my eyes bleed
Sunday: Sleep till noon, think about laundry and housecleaning, hang w/ girlfriend, think about doing homework, play Everquest some more, think about doing some homework, go to bed
Monday (20 min before class): read the homework

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[cyberhh]

study, paintball, mess on computer, custom hardware/software design (currently a MAME machine), watch movies, honeydoos, whatever

[TheLow1]

Spend all weekend with the fire escape floor plan of work trying to design a Halflife deathmatch level in WorldCraft 2.0

[sdrawkcab]

Are you kidding me? 90% of our business is on Saturday and Sunday... at least I know the joy of having Mondays off though...

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[pga]

weekends for the past 5 months?

Even though we're closed on Sat/Sun: wake up 8 am saturday, work on computers until 5 am sunday, wake up 8 am sunday work on computers until 2am (crash and burn).

Famous quote for me lately:
"I'm gonna raise my rates and slow this stuff down"

[Jallentino]

Friday: Finalize Fantasy Football Team
Saturday: Second guess decisions about fantasy football selections.
Sunday: Sweat it out as my players suck.

[Jallentino]

Friday: Finalize Fantasy Football Team
Saturday: Second guess decisions about fantasy football selections.
Sunday: Sweat it out as my players suck.

[oldman]

wake at 6:00am sat
start a setup for new computer
go out work on daughters car
check on setup
go out work on sons car
finish computer setup
go out work on wifes van
hope done by dinner
surf net and watch tv till midnight
chase wife around bed

up about 8:00 sun
check email
see what computers are left to work on
check what cars need to have work done
start on tranny replacement on ford
clean basement when the rest of family get up
watch either nfl or nascar
fix other sons car
dinner time
work on cousins computer
surf the net

[LowTech]

you guys get weekends ¿?

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[Jgold47]

should be studying, probably drinking, hopefully f*ucking, most likely looking at porn alone

[Mr.James]

Friday:
Get home 5:30pm.
Get food 5:45pm.
Get showered/changed 6:30pm.
Get to Girls house 7:00pm.
Get to Bar 7:30pm.
Get to Club 11pm.

Saturday:
Leave Club 6am.
Get to Girls house 6:30am
Bed 7am.
Sleep 8am.
Come down in pub 11am.
Go to Girls house 5pm.
Get Showered/Changed 6pm.
Get to bar 7pm.
Get to club 11pm.

Sunday:
Leave club 12pm.
Come down in pub 12:30pm.
Get to Girls house 5pm.
Bed 5:30pm.
Leave girls 6:30pm
Home 6:45pm
Sleep 7pm.

Monday:
Got to work 7am.

Work to Live, NEVER Live to Work.

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Cheers,
Mr.James