Quote - you gotta take breaks every now and then - I don't even think I could spend 17hrs straight on Vue :) (My wife would kill me for starters)

Yeah, one of the joys and terrors of being a freshly-divorced freelance artist. Mine time is utterly my own, with the caveat that no one's going to stop me if I make my time utterly my own :)

I just keep telling myself that this'll be useful to my biz (commercial photographer) once I get good at it.....

They had chained him down to things that are, and had then explained the workings of those things till mystery had gone out of the world....And when he had failed to find [wonder and mystery] in things whose laws are known and measurable, they told him he lacked imagination, and was immature because he preferred dream-illusions to the illusions of our physical creation.
      -- HP Lovecraft, The Silver Key