Nothing against reading, I go through a new bedside novel about every month... but I find that when I'm sitting at the PC and moving the mouse pointer towards the perenial Fox icon, I sometimes "accidentally" click the one just above...

Flight Unlimited III by the recently defunct Looking Glass Technologies... This is the most realistic GA flight sim I've ever used and I can easily spend an hour or more in a very scenic, very relaxing, slow flight over Seatle. Or maybe two <s>.

Seriously, I had this same problem a few months ago and it's true, no matter how much you love programming, there's a whole world of other interests out there and you must take care to enjoy it to the fullest!

My $.02

>Tom,
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>>.......Churchill's 6-volume "The Second World War",
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>>Really??? Man you guys need to cut loose with some good old mind altering trash novels!
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>I didn't say I read all 6 volumes, but it was extremely interesting and suspenseful.
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>>Any John Grisham book
>>Angela's Ashes
>>Read your kids Harry Potter books....
>>The Phantom Menace (well it is too late to spell anyway!)
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>Duly noted. BTW, my wife and I watched a p.d.james mystery on PBS tonight (on the series "Mystery"), which had as the evil character the same actor who plays the Senator in "Phantom Menace" and (did you recognize him...) the evil Emperor in that and later episodes.