how do you cope with Sunday afternoons?

[LaNeK779]

Douglas Adams in his 1982 "Life, the Universe and Everything" (ISBN 0-345-39182-9) puts it very elegantly, simply and brutally spot on

Talking about a being who had immortality inflicted on him by some freak accident, he argues that everything else can be dealt with, except sunday afternoons

In the end, it was Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and
that terrible listlessness that starts to set in at about 2:55 when you
know you've taken all the baths you can usefully take that day, that
however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will
never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it
describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move
relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the Long Dark Teatime
of the Soul.'

Of course, I am not going to argue that we are immortals, but i suspect we do face the same problem with Sunday afternoons.
So the question is simple

How do you get through a Sunday Afternoon?

I suspect lumia could help, but then again, not everything can be solved with coherent light...

[Bradfo69]

Well.... It's currently Sunday afternoon and I'm the middle of hosting a wedding reception.

For me it's pretty simple.... all I do is work so, I rarely even know what day it is, let alone if it's a Sunday. I've had three days off this year - New Years Day, Superbowl Sunday and Easter. Rarely is a day less than 10 hours, many as much as 17.
I wish I could have Douglas Adams problem. I just know whatever day it is that I have off... that feeling creeps in and I get so lethargic I can't get a damn thing done.

[dzodzo]

have you tried ... cocaine? err i meant LSX but it's similarly addictive

[swamidog]

LSX is like crack for my reptile brain.

have you tried ... cocaine? err i meant LSX but it's similarly addictive

[Bradfo69]

Nah... I'm fueled solely on diet Pepsi. LOT'S of it.

[norty303]

I've taken to throwing RC gliders off of big hills on Sunday afternoons. Very therapeutic too!
Or riding my motorbike too quickly.
Not lasers though...

[buffo]

How do you get through a Sunday Afternoon?

I re-built a power meter (replaced the old digital voltmeter with a better one that had 3 digits to the left of the decimal for more accurate readings), and I also built a quick and dirty variable-frequency oscillator with limited duty cycle adjustment so I'll have an adjustable signal source to stress-test drivers with. It does ~ 2KHz to ~ 100 KHz, which is more than enough. (Amazing what you can do with just a couple op amps!) I actually just turned off the soldering iron a few minutes ago.

As for lumia; that's actually next weekend's project. (Assuming I have the time!) Gotta get some of this stuff ready for SELEM...

Adam

[Robin]

It's that moment on Sunday after which the sun, having done its job filling one's brunch with talk of plans to further enjoy its refulgence, or, as is the case for people like me who made the ridiculous choice to live 45 degrees or more north of the equator on the western coast of North America, that moment when the sky is more or less dark, but the same gun-metal grey.

The weekend floods past in turbulent eddy currents of intermixing, antithetical imperatives that tell us at one moment to relax and do nothing and at another to get up, out, and onto those things we're too busy to do during the work week. It becomes serious business, this Sunday Afternoon, when you've squandered yet another weekend watching TV (beer or other guilty pleasure in hand) and you feel a sudden obligation to prudence or productivity.

There is work to be done after all. Peering out from those last hours on a Sunday Afternoon you can see the ranks, 5 days deep and 120 hours wide of the approaching work week. Here then is your chance to make a last, defiant stand against the coming tyranny. Hopefully you have a small reserve of lassitude to deploy as a skirmish line to delay the onslaught. Fire up the photons, grab a frosty beverage and do not go gently into that good night.

[dnar]

One word.

Nanna nap!

[LaNeK779]

...you can see the ranks, 5 days deep and 120 hours wide of the approaching work week...

That's it... exactly my thought, just before my heart starts to sink...